Scientists from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Scripps Polar Center are at the bottom of the ...

A six-year analysis of marine microbes in coastal California waters has overturned long-held assumptions about how the ...

For the first time, a study from researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego ...

In the pursuit of understanding the oceans and skies.

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 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 ...

A researcher describes the SOARS system to visitors to the Hydraulics Laboratory. The Hydraulics Laboratory offers various testing facilities. An on-site machine shop, fabrication tools and the in ...

What was the historical use of DDT and how was it disposed of? Commercial use of the insecticide DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) was banned in the United States ...

A department of UC San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography is one of the oldest, largest, and most important centers for ocean, earth and atmospheric science research, education, and public ...

The ecology of chemical defenses, communication, and biosynthesis. Subjects range from how available chemical resources affect ecosystem processes to how organisms produce chemical compounds. Research ...

Focuses on the biogeochemical cycling of trace metals in marine systems. CalCOFI is a long-term, interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral ecosystem research program off the coast of California that ...

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 ...