Planetary scientist and academic leader Meenakshi Wadhwa brings a bold vision and broad scientific perspective as the new ...

Marine animals inevitably eat what we toss in the ocean, including pervasive plastics -- but how much is too much?

Professor Katherine Zaba will be educating her students in the Physical Oceanography Lab class how to investigate salinity and temperature readings by visiting the San Diego River. The class will also ...

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 ...

Scripps Institution of Oceanography announced Thursday that the amount of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide in the atmosphere continues its steady increase, setting a new record in May. The NOAA Mauna ...

Algae growth on an Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) Surface Mooring, which measured water properties and velocity at the US Northeast shelfbreak, right after recovery. Woods Hole, Mass. (May 19, ...

I met with Sean Beckwith, a physical oceanography doctoral student at the USF College of Marine Science (CMS) who is researching sound speed to enhance seafloor mapping. I have spent this last ...

For more than fifty years, Robert Weisberg has studied the movement of ocean waters. In a new book, Climate to a Fish Sandwich: Why We Study the Ocean’s Circulation, he explains the role of physics in ...

ABSTRACT: The widespread use of disinfectants and various medications in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has raised concerns about their potential impact on the characteristics of natural waters. To ...

ABSTRACT: One (1) hourly data of variables such as 10 m wind speed (u10), sea surface temperature (SST) and 2 m air temperature obtained from ERA5 Reanalysis over a 84 year (1940-2023) period were ...

Kerstin Bergentz is a fifth-year PhD candidate studying physical oceanography at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. Born and raised in Sweden, Bergentz received a bachelor’s degree ...

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