🐙 Inspired by the power of octopus camouflage, @ucsandiego.bsky.social scientists have developed a way to produce xanthommatin, a color-changing pigment with potential real-world applications ranging from UV protection to thermal coatings.

📈 It's getting hot in here, and by here, we mean in the ocean. 🌊 So, what exactly does an increasingly warm ocean mean for our planet? 🌎 From measuring changes to potential impacts, Scripps scientists answer some common questions about ocean warming: https://bit.ly/44T1bZA

Check out our latest AR Quick Look discussing the #AtmosphericRiver forecast to make landfall later today and bring precipitation impacts to California into early next week. Read more here: cw3e.ucsd.edu/wp-content/u...

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Get a behind-the-scenes look at an Antarctic research cruise courtesy of @nytimes.com’s @zhonggg.bsky.social to see how scientists like Scripps geophysicist Jamin Greenbaum work to understand how the rapidly changing Thwaites Glacier could drive future sea-level rise. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/cl...

👩🏿‍🔬 🧑🏽‍🔬 People are what make Scripps Oceanography extraordinary! 🔬 🌏 From earning top honors from leading global institutions to advancing groundbreaking research, the Scripps community continues to make an impact. Explore inspiring stories from 2025: https://bit.ly/48Zmrhq

As 2025 comes to a close, we celebrate a major milestone: the 20th anniversary of the Master of Advanced Studies Program in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation at Scripps! Here’s to 2 decades of educating & empowering the next generation of ocean leaders. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9sgwn9JKGY

🌎 What's it like being on the cutting-edge of discovery? From coral reef experts to geochemists to climate scientists, this video series shares a glimpse into the lives of Scripps Oceanography researchers who are shaping the future of science.

🎶 It's beginning to look a lot like Scrippsmas 🎶 Season's Greetings, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you and yours! 📸: @ucsandiego.bsky.social photographer Erik Jepsen

A pair of #AtmosphericRivers are forecast to bring heavy precipitation and snowfall to California with the risk for flooding in southern California in the next five days. See more here: cw3e.ucsd.edu/wp-content/u...

🚀 This Scripps Oceanography and @ucsandiego.bsky.social alum is heading back into space! Congratulations to NASA astronaut Jessica Meir for being tapped as spacecraft commander as part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station. Learn more. ⬇️

💤 'Rest, but make it productive' must be the motto for seals, because research led by Scripps postdoctoral scholar @jkendallbar.bsky.social finds that they get ~2 hours of sleep at sea, often during their deepest dives for food and avoiding predators! @apnews.com shares more. ⬇️ 🦭

⚠️ A series of #AtmosphericRivers and low-pressure systems will bring heavy precipitation to much of California this week. 🌧️ View the latest outlook from @cw3escripps.bsky.social for more info: cw3e.ucsd.edu/cw3e-ar-upda...

🌧️ 🛩️ The Atmospheric River Reconnaissance program is going global! The program, led by @cw3escripps.bsky.social and @noaa.gov, will be joining forces & taking flight with research programs across the world to improve forecasts of extreme weather events. Learn more. ⬇️ scripps.ucsd.edu/news/atmosph...

🎉 Congratulations to Scripps Oceanography master’s student Rhowan Ho who has been selected for the 2026 Museum of Science, Boston Digital Science Communication Fellowship that supports emerging scientific leaders in mastering digital storytelling, strategic communication and public engagement!

The famous yellow buoys of the Coastal Data Information Program (CDIP) are celebrating their 50th anniversary. They power the most accurate surf forecasts in the United States. #cdip #oceanbuoy #scripps #surfforecast #surf #surfing Cc: @scrippsocean.bsky.social

🌊 Happy 50th birthday, Coastal Data Information Program! What began in 1975 as a single wave measurement has grown into one of the world’s most enduring & trusted coastal observing programs. For 50 years, CDIP has powered science, engineering, safety & resilience with accurate, real-time wave data.

🧴 A sustainable sunscreen is one of the many potential uses for this pigment innovation created by Scripps Oceanography scientists! Learn how a @ucsandiego.bsky.social-led team developed a technique that makes this nature-based pigment cheaper & easier to produce. ⬇️ ✍️ @theoceanwriter.bsky.social

Building inexpensive indoor air filters with Mar Vista High School students in Imperial Beach...filter efficiency is higher than ones that cost $800+. You spend 90% of your time indoors...we all deserve clean air!! @scrippsocean.bsky.social @ucsandiego.bsky.social Airborne Institute.

🏅Congratulations to the 3️⃣ scientists at Scripps Oceanography who will be honored by @agu.org at this week's AGU Annual Meeting through its Honors and Recognition program, which acknowledges section awardees, named lecturers & elected fellows! Learn more: scripps.ucsd.edu/news/three-s...

Hundreds gathered at the National Academy of Sciences in D.C. for a powerful screening of "Out of Plain Sight," a documentary exploring the origin and impacts of toxic dumping off the coast of California. The event was emceed by Scripps alum and National Academy of Sciences President Marcia McNutt.

🌊 🎥 Trust us: Check out the Scripps Pier underwater camera right now! The current ocean visibility at Scripps Pier is high, so you'll likely encounter some cool critters. Tune in here: coollab.ucsd.edu/pierviz/

🌱 Big solutions are growing from the ground up! Meet @ucsandiego.bsky.social's Soil Health Center, an interdisciplinary collaboration of researchers, farmers and community partners working together to grow a more sustainable and climate-resilient future. Learn more: bit.ly/48HyXSw

🌧️ How do we study #AtmosphericRivers? 🛫 By flying planes into them, obviously! @cw3escripps.bsky.social's Alex Tardy caught up with Fox Weather to share why flights are critical for understanding ARs ahead of a powerful atmospheric river headed for the Northwest. U.S. ⬇️

🔬🦠Ria Bhabu, a first-year PhD student at Scripps, is researching an Antarctic sea squirt that has expressed a chemical compound with promising anti-melanoma properties, providing insight into host-microbe relationships. Learn more: https://bit.ly/48FJei5

We posted a quick summary of the #AtmosphericRiver the brought precipitation to the Pacific Northwest on Dec 3-6 ahead of the system presently impacting the region. Read more here: cw3e.ucsd.edu/wp-content/u...

Sure, you’ve heard of the Cambrian explosion, but what about the mists of Avalon that preceded it? 🧪 New #AGU25 research by Jack Schneider & John Tarduno @urochester.bsky.social, comments from Shuhai Xiao @virginiatech.bsky.social & Cathy Constable @scrippsocean.bsky.social. eos.org/articles/the...

🌎 Later this week: Tune in virtually on Dec. 10 at 12 p.m. to hear students from Scripps Oceanography share about their experience at @cop30brazil.bsky.social! Join the @ucsandiego.bsky.social Alumni Triton Table Talk event here: bit.ly/44aSJ7A

🌎 The GAIA Initiative unites @ucsandiego.bsky.social iego’s world-class oceanographic and Earth science expertise with cutting-edge AI. 🤖 💻 Bringing together 28+ faculty across campus, GAIA is pioneering new ways to understand and predict our planet’s complex systems. ⬇️

⚠️Good news alert: A new study led by Scripps Oceanography and @salkinstitute.bsky.social reveals the potential of a new hybrid seagrass to advance ocean restoration efforts in California and beyond! ⬇️🧵

📍Washington D.C. friends: 🎥 @nationalacademies.org is screening "Out of Plain Sight," a documentary exploring the origin and impacts of toxic dumping off the coast of California. Dive into the story & see how Scripps is helping us face what was left beneath the waves. 📅 Dec. 11 🔗 bit.ly/4ryuaeL

Deeply care about #conservation? Then listen to @gilbertjacka.bsky.social from @scrippsocean.bsky.social discuss the importance of microbial conservation as the foundation for all other conservation (including us macrobes). www.sciencefriday.com/segments/mic...

📈Good news for California beaches! 🏖️ Two new studies from researchers at Scripps Oceanography found that San Diego County beaches gained width in the past year, and that average beach width across all of California has remained stable since 1985. @axios.com San Diego shares more. ⬇️

We're thankful for science, our UC San Diego community, fall sunsets like these, and of course, YOU! Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours! 📸: UC San Diego photographer Erik Jepsen

🌊🔵 Introducing Blue Spots! These are places that can accelerate marine conservation by concentrating efforts in areas where existing non-extractive economies—especially diving and wildlife tourism—already support biodiversity protection. Dive in to learn more. ⬇️ 💙🐠

CW3E AR Update: Multiple weak #AtmosphericRivers and a low-pressure system are forecast to bring precipitation to the Pacific Northwest this week. See our latest Quick Look for more information: cw3e.ucsd.edu/wp-content/u....

🏅This Scripps Oceanography seismologist & a team of scientists from @utaustin.bsky.social & the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory just won the Nobel Prize of supercomputing! 💻⚡ Congrats to @inseismoland.bsky.social, who earned the @acm.org Gordon Bell Prize! 🧵⬇️

TOMORROW: Don’t miss Schmidt Ocean Institute's next Back Ashore webinar featuring Scripps Oceanography scientists. They'll share their findings on the toxic legacy of DDT barrels dumped off Southern California’s coast decades ago. Register here: bit.ly/3KdYA57

🐠 A marine fish collection in Puerto Rico has a new home! Thanks to NSF support and a partnership between UPR and Scripps, thousands of specimens were saved, conserved and integrated into a world-class research collection, fueling discoveries in evolution, biogeography, and conservation. 🔬

🌏 We're live at @cop30brazil.bsky.social! The @ucsandiego.bsky.social o delegation has been busy over the last several days, advocating on behalf of our ocean and the planet! Watch this video for a behind-the-scenes look at the global climate conference. 🧵⬇️

CW3E Publication Notice: "Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Prediction: The Gap Between Weather and Climate Forecasting (2nd Edition)." Read more about this book, including a subsection on Subseasonal and Seasonal predictability of atmospheric rivers led by CW3E Researchers: cw3e.ucsd.edu/cw3e-publica...

ICYMI: The Keeling Curve is a daily record of global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration maintained by Scripps Oceanography at @ucsandiego.bsky.social. Give @keelingcurve.bsky.social a follow for daily updates! More information: keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

🏔️ Research from Scripps Oceanography scientist Lia Siegelman finds undersea "storms" are melting Antarctic glaciers from below. Researchers also identified a positive feedback loop in which ice shelf melting caused more ocean turbulence, which in turn caused more ice shelf melting.

🔬 @ucsandiego.bsky.social scholars are crushing it on the global stage! 💥 50 trailblazing scientists were named to @clarivate.com's 2025 Highly Cited Researchers list. Shoutout to our Scripps stars: 🦠 @gilbertjacka.bsky.social, Microbiology 🌎 Shang-Ping Xie, Geosciences

2️⃣ studies from Scripps Oceanography scientists find California’s beaches can bounce back from erosion caused by powerful winter waves. Here's what they uncovered. 🧵⬇️

🌈An #AtmosphericRiver brought a decent amount of rain to the #WestCoast this weekend, and @ucsandiego.bsky.social photographer @erikjepsen.bsky.social was on the scene at #ScrippsPier to capture stunning photos of rainbows following the storm!

🎥 Here's your chance to see "Out of Plain Sight," a documentary exploring the origin and impacts of toxic dumping off the coast of California. Dive into the story and see how Scripps is helping us face what was left beneath the waves. ⬇️ https://www.outofplainsight.com/tickets

🌊 Attending #COP30? Join this interactive workshop co-led by Scripps students to explore how science can inform resilient coastal resource management. 📆 Monday, Nov. 17, 3 p.m. BRT 📍 Blue Zone, #OceanPavilion (PV-D120) 🔗 oceanpavilion-cop.org/session/scie...

🌎 Reporting live from @cop30brazil.bsky.social! Here's #COP30 delegate Scripps PhD candidate Anthony Wilson, who studies extreme heatwaves and co-led the “Top 5 Ocean Action Items” panel with fellow Scripps students. Learn more about Anthony and his research: scripps.ucsd.edu/news/uc-san-...

☔ Get those umbrellas out—an #AtmosphericRiver is making landfall soon! @cw3escripps.bsky.social scientists, engineers & staff will be on the ground throughout California launching weather balloons to better understand these storms. @cbsnews.com Sacramento has more. ⬇️