Coral reefs are renowned for their visual beauty, but for the marine life they support, their sounds may be just as enticing.

Ask any scuba diver what it’s like to experience a kelp forest underwater, and they’re likely to wax poetic about the magic ...

Tommy Stone is a fourth-year PhD student studying applied ocean science at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San ...

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

The study of the physiology and ecology of animals that don't have backbones, ranging from worms to sea stars, and of parasites, which can often provide insights into complex ecosystems. (Sea star ...

Fisheries biology and management is the study of marine environments and the monitoring and management of their living resources. The field includes ecological studies and analysis, population ...

A department of UC San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography is one of the oldest, largest, and most important centers for ocean, earth and atmospheric science research, education, and public ...

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El Niño is a climate pattern that is declared when monthly sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean are measured above normal, for at least five consecutive ...

Image caption: Example munitions surveyed by the Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) during the 2023 seafloor survey of the San Pedro Basin. Credit: Scripps Institution of Oceanography/UC San Diego. As ...