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 ...

The Scripps Institution of Oceanography operates the Marine Science Development Center (MSDC), a full-service facility dedicated to design, development, manufacturing, and assembly of advanced ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

We analyze the interactions among marine ecology and biodiversity, fisheries, socioeconomics, climate change, and more. CalCOFI is a long-term, interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral ecosystem research ...

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 ...

The study of how species allocate their available resources among the basic life processes of reproduction, growth, and maintenance.

The study of the physiology and ecology of animals that don't have backbones, ranging from worms to sea stars, and of parasites, which can often provide insights into complex ecosystems. (Sea star ...

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