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Plastic Trash Altering Ocean Habitats, Scripps Study Shows

Sharp increase of small plastic debris in the 'Garbage Patch' could have ecosystem-wide consequences

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Prominent Marine Ecologist to Receive Prestigious Cody Award from Scripps

Mark Hay of the Georgia Institute of Technology to give free public lectures on June 14 and 15

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First Holder of Jerome Namias Chair Joins Scripps

Sea ice and climate dynamics at heart of Ian Eisenman’s research

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Inaugural Roger Revelle Chair En Route to Scripps

Shang-Ping Xie studies the ocean-atmosphere interactions that influence climate

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Scripps Oceanographer Elected to National Academy of Science

Bill Young among three from UC San Diego honored

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Revisiting the site of the great 2010 Chilean earthquake

R/V Melville to study why rupture did not extend to the seafloor during the 2010 M8.8 megathrust earthquake beneath central Chile

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  • U.S. Navy welcomes two ships into research fleet
    Nature - Mar 2, 2012
    U.S. oceanographers this week received a welcome boost when the U.S. Navy announced it had finalized contracts for the construction of two 73-metre research vessels.
  • Insuring the Oceans
    Straits Times - Feb 22, 2012
    Continued ocean health is more than a feel-good objective. We all have a financial interest in letting nature "do its thing," as new research is establishing.

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