For the first time, researchers have mapped the population structure of silky sharks (Carcharhinus falciformis) in the ...

The 120-mile Tijuana River flows from Baja California into the United States and discharges millions of gallons of wastewater ...

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, ...

A global network of robotic floats that measure the changing state of the ocean. Develops and implements coastal observatories, serves as a science and technical interface with local, state, and ...

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 study of past, current, and projected interactions between ice in the Arctic and Antarctic and the changing climate. Studies fundamental physical processes that govern terrestrial climate change, ...

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 ...

One of Scripps's longest-running data centers, serving reference-quality hydrographic ocean data to an international community for over 20 years Studies fundamental physical processes that govern ...

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 study of the processes by which marine organisms grow and how factors such as temperature, nutrition, microbes, predators, and hormones influence development. (Green fluorescent amphioxus photo by ...