News Archive - Scripps Oceanography

Campuswide Proof-of-Concept Awards Move Innovations to Market

UC San Diego announced its first eight proof-of-concept awards to advance university inventions to commercial impact. Funded through the new “Accelerating Innovations to Market (AIM)” program, these milestone-driven projects are designed to de-risk early-stage technologies.

New Study Suggests Overfishing in One of World’s Most Productive Fishing Regions

A new study suggests that more small-scale fishing boats are operating in the Gulf of California than is economically and ecologically sustainable, suggesting that local fishermen are spending more time and money to catch fewer fish.

UC San Diego Honors Entrepreneurs-in-Residence with Reception, Apr. 17

UC San Diego’s Office of Innovation and Commercialization (OIC) launched the Entrepreneurs-in-Residence (EIR) program in 2015 to accelerate the creation of new startup companies. The OIC, a Research Affairs unit, will honor the newly appointed 2017 EIR cohort and thank the 2016 cohort for their hard work with a reception, Apr. 17, at Bella Vista Social Club and Caffé in the Sanford Consortium.

Kyoto University, a UC San Diego Partner, Will Open Office in San Diego

Kyoto University of Japan, one of the University of California San Diego’s international partners, will open an office in San Diego in early April, both campuses have announced.

New Study Shows Red Tides Can Be Predicted

A For over a century, scientists have been trying to understand what causes red tides to form in coastal areas seemingly out of nowhere. Using a novel technique developed by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego scientist George Sugihara and colleagues, that mystery is finally being unraveled.

Fault System off San Diego, Orange, Los Angeles Counties Could Produce a Magnitude 7.3 Quake

Study finds rupture of offshore Newport-Inglewood/Rose Canyon fault is possible.

UC San Diego to Develop Cyberinfrastructure for NASA’s ICESat/-2 Data

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego have been awarded a NASA ACCESS grant to develop a cyberinfrastructure platform for discovery, access, and visualization of data from NASA’s ICESat and upcoming ICESat-2 laser altimeter missions.

New UC San Diego Seminar Series Provides Invaluable Resource to the Region

UC San Diego Research Affairs –The Office of Innovation and Commercialization launches the first of an eighteen-month entrepreneurial seminar series, free and open to anyone at UC San Diego and the general public, including members of any other research institutions, Mar. 9.

Scripps Scientists, Icelandic Coast Guard Collaborate on Wave Study

Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego is collaborating with the Icelandic Coast Guard (ICG) on a groundbreaking study of the extreme ocean surface conditions that characterize the waters off that country’s coast.

UC San Diego Organizes 2017 Workshop on Big Data and the Earth Sciences

Researchers in earth sciences and information technology at UC San Diego are organizing a three-day Grand Challenges workshop May 31 to June 2 in La Jolla, Calif., on the topic of “Big Data and the Earth Sciences.”