May 19, 2016
…and Ralph Greenspan Two months before the historic climate agreement in Paris, where representatives from nearly 200 countries pledged to reduce greenhouse emissions, a smaller group of climate experts and politicians gathered at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Their mission: To come up with recommendations to slow the…
May 17, 2018
…a subset of the Earth Microbiome Project to discover the kinds of microbes and microbiomes “in the wild.” As of the middle of last year, the project included microbial sequence data from 15,096 samples from 11,336 human participants representing primarily the United States, United Kingdom and Australia, along with 42…
February 27, 2012
Marine scientists and a commercial telecommunications company are exploring partnerships that could dramatically advance scientists’ ability to observe and study ocean processes, provide early alerts for potential disasters and study deep Earth geodynamics.
September 26, 2011
…over the past several months has been devoted to strategic planning with the Academics Deans and the faculty. We, as a campus, need to plan now to position ourselves for the next decade and the next 50 years, in a financial environment that relies less on the state. In doing…
July 9, 2024
Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s NSF-funded Southern California Extreme Heat Research Hub brings together an interdisciplinary team of UC San Diego scientists—from climatologists to epidemiologists—to study extreme heat impacts and mitigation strategies.
December 10, 2020
…ship their home for months at a time. Upgrades to living spaces include new carpets, bed curtains and flooring. The overhaul of the vessel was conducted in Portland, Ore., by Vigor Shipyard. R/V Roger Revelle returned to its home port of San Diego in July, where Scripps Oceanography technicians worked…
June 9, 2022
An international team of researchers, led by scientists at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and the University of Pittsburgh, report promising results from the largest case series yet of patients treated with bacteriophage therapy for antibiotic-resistant infections.
June 16, 2016
…on the world’s largest outdoor seismic shake table this month at the University of California San Diego. The goal is to better understand how cold-formed steel structures withstand earthquakes and the fires that may follow. This is the tallest cold-formed steel-frame structure to ever undergo tests on a shake table.
May 26, 2022
…days, weeks, or even months. If you see fresh debris at the bottom of a cliff, stay away “Right now the beach is pretty eroded, and you can see the high tide water line is all the way up to the base of the cliff,” said Young on May 17,…
April 25, 2017
Scientists and physicians at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, working with colleagues at the U.S. Navy Medical Research Center – Biological Defense Research Directorate (NMRC-BDRD), Texas A&M University, a San Diego-based biotech and elsewhere, have successfully used an experimental therapy involving bacteriophages — viruses that target and…
