El Niño is a climate pattern that is declared when monthly sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern tropical ...

NOAA declares an El Niño when temperatures in the equatorial Pacific are 0.5°C (0.9°F) above average for several consecutive ...

Scripps meteorologist Chad Hecht releases a weather balloon into an atmospheric river making landfall in Marysville, ...

The coastline looking south from San Francisco in Sept. 2024 taken during a topographic lidar survey of the California ...

Supports scientific research by providing specimens for study on the taxonomy, evolution, and ecology of benthic invertebrates. Research programs focus on marine biomedicine and marine drug discovery, ...

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The study of the interactions between the oceans and land and the processes that shape coastal features and transport sediment and other materials near coastlines. Specializing in estuarine and ...

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 primary area of research is air-sea interaction, including the topics of surface wave dynamics, air-sea fluxes, upper ocean turbulence, including Langmuir circulations, and the remote sensing of ...

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 effects of climate changes on human health, particularly from an epidemiological perspective. Potential graduate students interested in this topic may want to apply for the Climate, ...

Researchers at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Shark Lab at California State University, Long Beach tracked the movements of 22 juvenile great white sharks before, during ...