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Reviving Ocean Traditions: The Kumeyaay Cultural Renaissance
Long before it became home to Scripps Institution of Oceanography, it was, and is, the homeland of the Kumeyaay people. In a moving presentation as part of the Perspectives on Ocean Science Lecture Series, Kumeyaay leaders Stan Rodriguez, Priscilla Ortiz Sawah, and Andrew James Pittman shared how their communities are reclaiming and revitalizing Indigenous ocean…
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Pier into the Past: Scripps Women Who Changed Ocean Science
The Birch Aquarium shines a spotlight on the remarkable women who have shaped the field of marine plankton research at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Blending science, history, and art, Judit Hersko, presents her imaginative visual narrative series, “Pages from the Book of the Unknown Explorer.” Her performance transports viewers to the early days of Scripps…
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Oceans in the Lab
It is designed to replicate and study interactions between the ocean and atmosphere under highly controlled, realistic environmental conditions. At 120 feet long and holding 36,000 gallons of water, the Scripps Ocean-Atmosphere Research Simulator (SOARS) is a unique facility at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. SOARS is much more than a wave generator. It simulates the…
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Understanding the Arctic Climate System
The Arctic is changing rapidly in response to global climate and economic activity and yet much of it remains unexplored with modern scientific techniques. Jeff Bowman is a biological oceanographer who studies marine microbial communities. In this presentation at the Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography he describes his group’s work in the Arctic…