Imperial Beach, Scripps join in bid to solve beach pollution
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan.30, -- Scripps Institution of Oceanography is proposing to use a type of Doppler radar to map ocean currents on and below the surface.  By summertime the scientists should start receiving real-time, around-the-clock information that will help track the flow of pollution.  (Quotes SIO scientist Eric Terrill).

Effort to restore abalone gets grant
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 30 – An effort to help restore severely depleted abalone populations off the San Diego coast has received a $113,000 state grant from a fund generated by revenue from offshore oil and gas development.  Scientific analysis will be provided by researchers from the state Department of Fish and Game and UCSD’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

California prisoner's heart transplant renews ethics debate about who gets organs
The Associated Press, Jan. 30 -- A California prison inmate received a heart transplant earlier this month, renewing a debate about who deserves to get desperately needed organs. (Quotes UCSD medical professor Dr. Lawrence Schneiderman).

UCSD alters funding deal for research
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 29 -- UCSD Connect has broadened a new program intended to promote early-stage funding for biomedical research ideas at the UCSD School of Medicine.  (Quotes UCSD Connect executive director Fred Cutler).

Plot Devised 
The San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 30 – Cartography, the art and science of making maps has come a long way from its origins.  (Mentions Scripps Institution of Oceanography).

UCSD followed the law in scholarship change
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 29, Opinion – Rebuttal to the January 25 opinion article by Jorge Mariscal.