Robert Monroe

3 weeks 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...

1 month ago | 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).

2 months ago | 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.

2 months ago | 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.

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.