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“A Major Conceptual Advance” on El Niño

1 month ago | today.ucsd.edu | Robert Monroe

Published Date May 23, 2025 Article Content El Niño years in the western United States are usually soggy, warm affairs while countries on the other side of the Pacific Ocean like Indonesia suffer from drought. The east-west shift of a warm blob of water in the equatorial Pacific Ocean has been the main characteristic of El Niño, but 2023 flipped the script, says a team of researchers led by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. Qihua Peng, a postdoctoral researcher at Scripps...
At UC San Diego, NOAA Collaboration Provides Backbone for Global Environmental Intelligence

2 months ago | today.ucsd.edu | Lauren Wood |Robert Monroe

NOAA support helps protect monitoring programs, weather forecasting, and technology development essential for public safety Published Date April 24, 2025 Article Content Since February, hundreds of California sea lions, as well as dolphins, whales and seabirds have been stranding themselves along Southern California coastlines. The sea lions appear dazed, listless, and sometimes acting erratically. The diagnosis — domoic acid poisoning — is caused by a neurotoxin produced by a marine plankton...
New US Academic Alliance for IPCC Opens Critical Nomination Access

Mar 20, 2025 | today.ucsd.edu | Robert Monroe

Article Content A newly established network of U.S. academic institutions including UC San Diego has formed to provide coordinated support for American climate scientists. The U.S. Academic Alliance for the IPCC (USAA-IPCC) has opened a call for U.S. researchers who are interested in being nominated to serve as experts, authors and review editors for the IPCC Seventh Assessment Report (AR7).
Local Leadership on Global Climate Crisis Highlighted in Resilience Summit

Mar 7, 2025 | today.ucsd.edu | Robert Monroe

The January fires in Los Angeles set the tone for the summit, offering a stark example of the new reality communities will cope with. Cardinal Peter K.A. Turkson, chancellor of the Pontifical Academies of Sciences and Social Sciences, reminded participants that beyond the immediate tragedy, disasters can drive beneficial societal resets. "Pope Francis says nobody emerges from a crisis the same way as when they entered the crisis,” said Turkson.
Scientists Get a Step Closer to Predicting the Size of Future Earthquakes

Feb 18, 2025 | today.ucsd.edu | Robert Monroe

Article Content The various idiosyncrasies of minor earthquakes make them hard to forecast, but the aspects of very large temblors might be more predictable, say researchers analyzing the catastrophic quakes that struck Turkey in 2023. A new study by a team led by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego researchers describes their test of a “slip-predictable” model that attempts to predict the size of future quakes.
Marine Ecosystem Survey Encounters a New Variable: Falling Ash from Los Angeles Fires

Jan 23, 2025 | today.ucsd.edu | Robert Monroe

CalCOFI has conducted quarterly cruises with few interruptions since 1949. The state, Scripps Oceanography and NOAA founded the program to understand why catches of one of the state's most prolific fisheries, sardines, diminished to almost nothing beginning in the years just before World War II. The program sends vessels to designated locations in a grid off the California coast and repeats measurements of everything from the clarity of the seawater to the amount of fish eggs and larvae present.
CalCOFI at 75

Nov 20, 2024 | today.ucsd.edu | Robert Monroe |Lauren Wood

A California science gem is cutting-edge but still devoted to the fundamentals Published Date November 21, 2024 Article Content Seventy-five years ago, a group of California scientists was tasked with a mission. The state’s sardine fishery had been a backbone of California’s economy through the 1940s. Famed author John Steinbeck once wrote that sardines schooled “in silvery billions and money ran almost as freely.” In 1945, when those words were published in his novel Cannery Row, the sardine...
The Ocean Pavilion Returns to International Climate Conference for a Third Year

Oct 15, 2024 | today.ucsd.edu | Robert Monroe

Article Content More than a dozen of the world’s leading ocean scientific, philanthropic, and other stakeholder organizations, led by theWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) andScripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego, return to represent ocean issues at the world’s largest climate negotiation, the 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan, from Nov. 11-22, 2024.
Scripps Oceanography Takes Lead of Southern Ocean Monitoring Program

Oct 15, 2024 | today.ucsd.edu | Robert Monroe

Article Content Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego will be the host of an ocean observing and modeling program focused on one of the ocean regions that plays a major role in regulating climate, and which is reacting more acutely to climate change than any other place in the world.
Presence of Liquid Water Most Probable Explanation for Data Collected by Mars Lander

Aug 11, 2024 | today.ucsd.edu | Robert Monroe

Published Date August 12, 2024 Article Content Data about Mars’ planetary crust gathered from the Mars InSight lander are best explained by the conclusion that the crust has stores of liquid water. Analysis led by Vashan Wright, a geophysicist at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, provides the best evidence to date that the planet still has liquid water in addition to that frozen at its poles. If that conclusion is true, it sets the stage for new research considering the...