A special symposium honoring Margaret Leinen, director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, and her contributions to the field of oceanography was held at the Scripps Seaside Forum ...

Diego Melgar earned his PhD in geophysics from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego in 2014. He came to ...

Coral larvae are picky about where they attach and settle down. One of the ways they decide is by “smelling” chemicals in the water that are associated with healthy reefs.

Noreen Garcia is a sixth-year PhD candidate studying marine chemistry and geochemistry at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. Garcia grew up in South Central Los Angeles, and earned ...

Scripps researchers analyze viruses in water pans to understand potential disease threats while laying the groundwork for future wildlife protection In 2020, more than 350 African savanna elephants ...

We use sequence-based approaches, flow cytometry, modeling, and other techniques to explore the structure and function of microbial communities. CalCOFI is a long-term, interdisciplinary, ...

The interface between marine chemistry and marine biology, ranging from natural products chemistry and biotechnology to biogeochemistry and biochemistry relating to marine systems. Many of our ...

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The study of the ecology of marine communities that live on or near the rocks and sediments of the ocean floor. (Crab photo courtesy biological oceanographer Lisa Levin.) CMBC promotes ...

The study of the processes by which marine organisms grow and how factors such as temperature, nutrition, microbes, predators, and hormones influence development. (Green fluorescent amphioxus photo by ...