Maira Mendez recently completed her bachelor’s degree in geosciences at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.

Innovators from UC San Diego are prepared to present their commercially-promising, environmentally-focused technologies at the 14th annual Triton Sustainability Challenge, the university’s ...

The National Academy of Sciences elected three faculty from the University of California San Diego to membership, one of the ...

Elena Duke has always followed the work that sparks her curiosity. What began as volunteering in a marine biology lab at UC ...

A new use has emerged for a technology revolutionizing ocean research, led by marine biologists from Scripps Institution of ...

The study of the oceans and ecology of marine organisms in the geologic past, largely through the marine sedimentary record. The Human Ecology Laboratory groups together students and researchers to ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Tracking the flow of natural and manmade elements through the environment to better understand physical systems.

Studying the tectonic forces within the Earth give rise to continents, ocean basins, mountain ranges, earthquake belts, and most volcanoes, along with the resulting deformation of geological ...