News Archive - MacKenzie Elmer

Microplastics a million times more abundant in the ocean than previously thought

Scripps biological oceanographer Jennifer Brandon found some of the tiniest countable microplastics in surface seawater at much higher concentrations than previously measured.

Scripps Scientists Awarded Nearly $5 Million to Study Triggers of Toxic Algal Blooms

Researchers are gearing up to hunt for blooms along California’s coast using a suite of technologies that can target and sample ocean microbes and sift through genetic code in real time. All of this is made possible by a new $4.9 million grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration