Being able to multiply the species in a lab revealed information about its hunting technique and bioluminescence and opened ...

Marine biologists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have created a line of sea urchins whose genetic makeup is fully mapped and can be edited to study human disease genes. The ...

Growing up in the foothills of the Himalayas, Meenakshi Wadhwa always has had a fascination with nature. That soon expanded into a curiosity about what’s beyond our world and how different scientific ...

The program leading to a Bachelor of Science (BS) and a Master of Science (MS) is offered to current UC San Diego students enrolled in undergraduate majors within the Scripps Institution of ...

Physical oceanography examines the motions, structure and energy exchanges that govern the ocean’s role in Earth’s climate and marine ecosystems. At its core are the wind-driven surface currents that ...

Plankton use solar energy to drive the nutrient cycles that make the planet habitable for larger organisms. We can now explore the diversity and functions of plankton using genomics, revealing the ...

The modern study of oceanography only ushered in around 150 years ago Oceanography is defined as the study of the physical, chemical, and biological features of the ocean, including the ocean’s ...

Marine Geology: The forces that shape our Earth and its global ocean; Physical Oceanography: The forces that move our oceans; Marine Biology: The flora and fauna that inhabit our oceans; Global ...

Oceanography in the mid-20th century was "one of the greatest periods of exploration of the earth ... Every time you went to sea, you made unexpected discoveries. It was revolutionary. Nothing that we ...

Carly Buchwald’s group uses the abundance stable isotopes of N and O in nitrite and nitrate to interpret nitrogen biogeochemistry in the environment. They measure the isotope systematics of relevant ...