By Edward Carver The documentary A Life Illuminated will make its Washington, D.C., premiere on March 19, the first night of ...

A rumor that has circulated online since 2018 claims that, in 2017, a humpback whale in the Cook Islands used its body to push marine biologist Nan Hauser around while she was underwater, seemingly to ...

Carolyn Lundquist, Ph.D. '00, studies the impact of human activities on ocean ecosystems. (Courtesy) Carolyn Lundquist, Ph.D. ’00, prompted by a high school career test, studied communication at UCLA, ...

Somewhere in the North Atlantic, more than a kilometer beneath its surface, a cold-water coral reef stretches across an unnamed seamount. Despite never appearing on a chart, this underwater forest has ...

Alisa Schulman-Janiger, a marine biologist, cetacean researcher and educator, was honored on Sunday, Dec. 1 for her 40 years of dedication to the ACS-LA Gray Whale Census and Behavior Project. In a ...

EDUCATE KIDS ON OUR FRAGILE ECOSYSTEM. THEIR SPECIFIC FOCUS ON A RECENT OUTING - SHARKS. THIS NURSE SHARK MAY SCATTER FISH, BUT IT ATTRACTS SOME ASPIRING MARINE BIOLOGISTS, STUDYING IT FROM A DISTANCE ...

This academic year, Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego welcomes nine new faculty members and researchers to its academic ranks. These scientists and educators bring extensive ...

Scott Rapoport earned his PhD in marine biology from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego in 2003. Drawn to Scripps for its unique blend of engineering and marine biology, Rapoport ...

High pressure in the deep ocean may squeeze nutrients from sinking “marine snow,” feeding deep-sea microbes and altering how ...

This story was produced in collaboration with Vox.One morning this week, Hanna Koch was snorkeling in the Florida Keys when she came across a brown beer bottle discarded on the sea floor. Koch, a ...