Research Highlight: A Cautionary Tale of Clouds and Conclusions
Scripps researchers reveal error in paper that caused a media flurry Mistakes happen in research. In some fields, however, mistakes are uncomfortably high-profile. Take climate science. In recent...
View ArticleResearch Highlight: Breathtaking Secrets of Super Divers
Groundbreaking study describes how collapsed lungs aid sea lions during their astoundingly deep dives At the impressionable age of seven, Birgitte McDonald packed up and headed out on a vacation from...
View ArticleResearch Highlight: Ocean Salinity Trends Show Human Fingerprint
Like ocean temperature, changes in last half-century only explicable in context of human-caused climate change Changes in ocean salinity over the second half of the 20th Century are consistent with...
View ArticleResearch Highlight: Keep Tahoe Oxic!
A high-resolution computer model forecasts that climate change will cause a gradual depletion of oxygen within the iconic lake Climate change could put Lake Tahoe at risk of slowly suffocating, with...
View ArticleResearch Highlight: The Perils of ‘Paper Parks’
Are ineffective marine protected areas more dangerous than having none at all? In a new study in the journal Conservation Letters, researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego find...
View ArticleResearch Highlight: Coral Record Puts Present-Day El Niño Trends in Context
Historical records show large variations in strength, making the contribution of human activities on current El Niños harder to assess Nearly 7,000 years of climate data stored in coral fossils shows...
View ArticleResearch Highlight: Drilling into the Unknown
Scripps researchers on mission to explore untouched lake beneath Antarctica As 2012 wound to a close, a group of scientists started out on a grueling 983-kilometer (611-mile) journey traversing the...
View ArticleResearch Highlight: Urban Heat Has Large-scale Climate Effects
Researchers find that heat given off by metropolitan areas is powerful enough to influence winter warming The heat generated by everyday activities in metropolitan areas has a significant enough...
View ArticleResearch Highlight: Research, 60 Years in the Making
Manuscript published posthumously details early life stages of rare giant crustacean After six decades, a long-dormant research paper about a little-known crustacean is finally seeing daylight thanks...
View ArticleResearch Highlight: Greenland Ice Cores Hint at Sea-level Rise Future
The Greenland ice sheet did not melt as much as expected during a recent warming period but that may mean Antarctic ice sheets melted more than expected The planet is warming up, ice is melting, and...
View ArticleResearch Highlight: Rewriting the Sea Lily Family History
Scripps researcher leads DNA study tracing sea animal ancestry before the dawn of dinosaurs The family tree of a group of sea creatures with an ancient pedigree is being called into question. A study...
View ArticleResearch Highlight: From the Sahara to the Sierra, a Stormy End for Dust and...
UCSD researchers find that dust and other aerosols from one side of the world influence rainfall in another The rain and snow that fall in California’s Sierra Nevada got their initial kick half a...
View ArticleResearch Highlight: The Mysterious Glow from Coral Reefs
Scientists learn more about fluorescent light that shifts color over coral’s lifetime The health of coral reefs around the world has been threatened from a variety of natural and human-produced...
View ArticleResearch Highlight: Big Result from a Tiny Ocean
Replica ocean-atmosphere system on Scripps campus gives important clues on how marine life is linked to cloud formation A team of UC San Diego researchers that built a replica ocean-atmosphere system...
View ArticleResearch Highlight: Tropical Storms, Global Consequences
Will the world’s wettest places or the warmest ones see more rainfall as climate changes? Rising levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) are driving recent changes to the global climate, and these changes are...
View ArticleResearch Highlight: Bizarre to the Bone
Strange sea worms emit acid to feast on whale skeletons “Stunning.” That’s the descriptor Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego marine biologist Greg Rouse used in recounting his first...
View ArticleResearch Highlight: Navy Deploys Scripps Global Drifter Buoys
Drifter buoys used in ocean circulation, climate and typhoon research aid U.S. Navy missions of disaster relief and preparedness Sailors from the office of Naval Meteorology and Oceanography released...
View ArticleResearch Highlight: Deep-Sea Lander Donated by ‘Titanic’ Filmmaker May Touch...
Virtually untouched for 50 years, the Mariana Trench could be visited by researchers twice in 18 months A lander used during James Cameron’s historic March 2012 dive to the deepest place on Earth...
View ArticleResearch Highlight: Coastal Power Plant Records Reveal Decline in Key...
Downturn across five regions points to broad oceanographic shift Recent research documents a dramatic, 40-year drop in a number of key fish species and a change in their community structure, according...
View ArticleResearch Highlight: Recent El Niños are the Most Intense in 700 Years
Tree-ring record might be the most accurate ever made Researchers including Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, climate scientist Shang-Ping Xie have constructed a 700-year record of the...
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