Zain Smith is a first-year PhD student studying marine biology at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.

Today, UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance (SDZWA) announced a formal ...

A global network of robotic floats that measure the changing state of the ocean. Develops and implements coastal observatories, serves as a science and technical interface with local, state, and ...

An acoustic sound source manufactured at the Marine Science Development Center for Scripps researcher Matthew Dzieciuch being ...

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 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 ...

Focuses on the biogeochemical cycling of trace metals in marine systems. CalCOFI is a long-term, interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral ecosystem research program off the coast of California that ...

The ecology of chemical defenses, communication, and biosynthesis. Subjects range from how available chemical resources affect ecosystem processes to how organisms produce chemical compounds. Research ...

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 ...

The study of how species allocate their available resources among the basic life processes of reproduction, growth, and maintenance.

The primary area of research is air-sea interaction, including the topics of surface wave dynamics, air-sea fluxes, upper ocean turbulence, including Langmuir circulations, and the remote sensing of ...