Marine biologists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have created a line of sea urchins whose genetic makeup is fully mapped and can be edited to study human disease genes. The ...

Deep beneath the eastern Pacific Ocean about 1,000 miles off the coast of Ecuador, a fault line on the seafloor has been ...

Being able to multiply the species in a lab revealed information about its hunting technique and bioluminescence and opened ...

Growing up in the foothills of the Himalayas, Meenakshi Wadhwa always has had a fascination with nature. That soon expanded into a curiosity about what’s beyond our world and how different scientific ...

Physical oceanography examines the motions, structure and energy exchanges that govern the ocean’s role in Earth’s climate and marine ecosystems. At its core are the wind-driven surface currents that ...

Courtesy of Richard Morita, Scripps Institution of Oceanography Archives, UC San Diego Library. Roger Revelle and others on the 1950 "Mid-Pac" expedition Oceanography in the mid-20th century was "one ...

A virtual work experience programme is opening up the world of ocean science to young people.

Marine Geology: The forces that shape our Earth and its global ocean; Physical Oceanography: The forces that move our oceans; Marine Biology: The flora and fauna that inhabit our oceans; Global ...

The modern study of oceanography only ushered in around 150 years ago Oceanography is defined as the study of the physical, chemical, and biological features of the ocean, including the ocean’s ...

Carly Buchwald’s group uses the abundance stable isotopes of N and O in nitrite and nitrate to interpret nitrogen biogeochemistry in the environment. They measure the isotope systematics of relevant ...