Climate Change and Human Impacts on Coastal Ecosystems
BY ELLA COULSON Image source: gorsh13/Getty Images A coastal ecosystem is a habitat on the border of land and sea that serves as a home...
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May 30, 202311 min read
Despair, Kindness, and Connection: An Interview with Dr. Leslie Lewis
BY ALLISON GABLE Dr. Leslie Lewis is a Continuing Lecturer in the Urban Studies and Planning Department at UC San Diego. She runs several...
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Apr 8, 20234 min read
Coral Reefs in Crisis: How is climate change impacting ocean acidification and coral bleaching?
By Emma Simon Supporting a quarter of all marine species, coral reefs are some of the most beautiful, diverse, and important ecosystems...
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Jan 1, 20237 min read
THE ROCK-DROP:
Harnessing an Indigenous Land Management Technique to Adapt to Climate Change in San Diego BY ETHAN OLSON INTRODUCTION The San Diego of...
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Dec 16, 20229 min read
Atmospheric River Data: Key to Saving California’s Agricultural Sector
BY ALEX REEP California’s agricultural sector is reliant on the increasingly unpredictable mega-storms, called atmospheric rivers, that...
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Oct 27, 20226 min read
Interview with Alexander Weyant on Climate Models and Defining Causality
BY ELEANOR TERNER image source Alexander Weyant is a first year phD student of climate science at Scripps Institute of Oceanography who,...
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May 17, 20222 min read
We Fixed These Fossil Fuel Companies’ Climate Change Proclamations
Behind the greenwashed facades and misleading promises that the largest contributors to climate change are pushing lie one stone cold...
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May 2, 20224 min read
Reach for the Sky! Or, Maybe Not.
What Geoengineering With Aerosols Could Mean for Climate Change BY ELEANOR TERNER Image Source What would you do to end the warming...
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Mar 30, 20228 min read
The Role of the Landscape Architect in the Fight against Climate Change
BY ETHAN OLSON Hunter's Point South Waterfront Park protects coastal communities against floods. Landscape architecture is a curious...
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Mar 21, 20226 min read
Coral Reefs Could Be the Next Major Casualty in the Fight against Climate Change
BY BIANCA JUSSEN Imagine a fantastical scenario where we press a button and terminate all anthropogenic causes of greenhouse gas...
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Feb 1, 20224 min read
Iron Fertilization: Solution or Pollution?
BY ELEANOR TERNER Image from Ecofriend Common sense tells us that if our kitchen sink is overflowing we should quickly turn off the tap...
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Nov 28, 20216 min read
Krill: The Disappearing Backbone of Marine Ecosystems
BY KARTHY SAJEEV Are we that close to krill-ing off biodiversity as we know it? Apparently so, because keystone species are feeling the...
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Oct 27, 20214 min read
Jakarta Sinking
BY ADIKA WITOELAR The global sea level has risen, on average, by 3.6 millimeters per year from 2006-2015, more than double the average...
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Jul 13, 20218 min read
Climate Change Narratives
BY KIDA BRADLEY
When I tell my children about what climate change is, I am not sure how I could thoroughly explain it. Climate change is an
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Jun 11, 20213 min read
Will Scripps Oceanography Leadership Commit to Zero Emissions Research Vessels?
BY ALEXANDER ANDRIATIS AND LEORAH GAVIDOR All vessels in the Scripps research fleet burn diesel. If it seems ironic to you that one of the
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Mar 12, 20214 min read
Why Carbon Offsets Won’t Cut It: Misleading Terms in Climate Change Conversations
BY AMBERLY CLARK Carbon neutral! Fossil free! Sustainable! Buzz words like these and many others are constantly thrown around and misused by
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Dec 29, 20203 min read
Trash Islands: What They Are and Why They Matter
BY ELEANOR TERNER
If you visit the beach, which is often the case for those living in La Jolla, it’s likely you will encounter some form of
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Nov 22, 20204 min read
Three Major Consequences of Global Warming
BY JIMO KOO
We are in a global warming crisis. But what does that mean to us? Why should we care about climate change? By listing the poten
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Nov 20, 20209 min read
How Do Scientists Predict Climate Change? An Interview with Nicholas Lutsko
BY ETHAN OLSON
In this interview, Nicholas Lutsko, an assistant professor of climate science at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, an
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Nov 2, 20202 min read
Physical Drivers of Phytoplankton Bloom Initiation in the Southern Ocean's Scotia Sea
Prend, C. J., S. T. Gille, L. D. Talley, B. G. Mitchell, I. Rosso, and M. R. Mazloff, 2019: Physical Drivers of Phytoplankton Bloom Initiati
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Nov 1, 20202 min read
Deep Argo Quantifies Bottom Water Warming Rates in the Southwest Pacific Basin
Johnson, G. C., S. G. Purkey, N. V. Zilberman, and D. Roemmich, 2019: Deep Argo Quantifies Bottom Water Warming Rates in the Southwest Pacif
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Oct 29, 20202 min read
Old carbon reservoirs were not important in the deglacial methane budget
M.N.Dyonisius, V.V.Petrenko, A.M.Smith, Q.Hua, B.Yang, J.Schmitt, J. Beck, B.Seth, M.Bock, B.Hmiel, I.Vimont, J.A.Menking, S.A. Shackleton,
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Oct 12, 20201 min read
Atmospheric rivers drive flood damages in the western United States
Corringham, T.W., F.M. Ralph, A. Gershunov, D.R. Cayan and C.A. Talbot, 2019: Atmospheric rivers drive flood damages in the western United S
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Oct 12, 20201 min read
Observed Impacts of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Wildfire in California
Williams A.P., J.T. Abatzoglou, A. Gershunov, J. Guzman Morales, D.A. Bishop and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2019: The link between anthropogenic clim
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Oct 12, 20201 min read
Precipitation regime change in Western North America: The role of Atmospheric Rivers.
Gershunov, A., T.M. Shulgina, R.E.S. Clemesha, K. Guirguis, D.W. Pierce, M.D. Dettinger, D.A. Lavers, D.R. Cayan, S.D. Polade, J. Kalansky a
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