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🌊 Share your love for the ocean at @cop31.bsky.social in Türkiye! We're now accepting expressions of interest for Ocean Pavilion partnerships and programming. Bring your innovative ideas, projects and solutions to the forefront of ocean-climate action. @whoi.edu https://bit.ly/4mWbD9f

Hey Bluesky! We're Scripps Oceanography and we're looking for friends who are interested in: 🔬 Marine Science 🌍 Earth Science 📈 Climate Change ⚠️ Hazards 💊 Biotechnology and Biomedicine 🌊 Oceanography 🪸 Coral Reef Ecology 🌧️ Atmospheric Science ➗ Geophysics ⚛️ Bioscience

🐋 Meet Michaela Alksne, a fifth-year PhD candidate at Scripps studying baleen whale acoustic ecology, migration, habitat preferences and long-term changes in whale distribution. 🌊 Read more: https://bit.ly/4fCAP3F

🌎 What exactly does a #SuperEl Niño entail? Scripps oceanographer Mark Merrifield will join California State Senator @ilike_mike's webinar to share what the state can expect. More information. ⤵️ 📆 August 4 🕕 6 PM 🔗 https://bit.ly/4bohkJF

Super El Nino Town Hall

Official website of Senator Mike McGuire, representing California Senate District 02.

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🌡️ High temperatures are in San Diego's forecast for the foreseeable future. Tom Corringham, a Scripps Oceanography climate economist, spoke with @kpbssandiego.bsky.social on the impacts of sweltering heat and what needs to be done to prepare for future heat waves. ⤵️ https://bit.ly/3S4FZwe

How to weather San Diego County's increasing extreme heat

San Diegans are experiencing more dangerously hot days than they are used to. Heat has a real impact on health and finances. KPBS breaks down those numbers and looks at how to minimize the risk while keeping loved ones safe.

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🌊 Head to the Scripps Pier underwater camera and let us know what you see! Hosted by the Coastal Ocean Observation Lab at Scripps Oceanography, this camera provides an under-the-water glimpse at the ecosystem right underneath the iconic research pier. https://coollab.ucsd.edu/pierviz/

🎬🦈 For #SharkWeek2026, check out 'Fishes of the Red Carpet' by recent Scripps Oceanography grad and current master's student Claire Miller! Her project ranks shark movies on biology, scientific accuracy, conservation messaging and entertainment. 🍿🔗 https://bit.ly/4pLJyE3

🌊 🌡️ As an El Niño brews & ocean temperatures rise, a new Scripps Oceanography-led study warns aquatic ecosystems are approaching an unsafe space as oxygen levels decline. @sfgate.com shares more on how it's a growing threat to marine life, fisheries & more. www.sfgate.com/science/arti...

Warming seas have less oxygen. California experts say that's really bad.

A new study offers one solution.

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🦈🌧️ When Tropical Storm Hilary reached Southern California in 2023, juvenile #WhiteSharks temporarily abandoned their San Diego nursery. A new study supported by Scripps researchers provides the first direct evidence of white sharks responding to an extreme weather event. ⬇️ #SharkWeek

Juvenile Great White Sharks Fled Their Nursery During Tropical Storm Hilary

In August 2023, communities across Southern California braced for Tropical Storm Hilary — the first tropical storm to directly impact the region this century. Although the storm weakened from a Catego...

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🦈 In this video, Scripps Oceanography PhD student Jessica Zhong shares her experience teaming up with Monterey Bay White Sharks to help develop and improve environmental DNA sampling and analysis techniques. 🎥 Sharks filmed in accordance with MBNMS permit MULTI-2023-005

As climate change intensifies storms, #mercury stored in soils & sediments can be washed into rivers, oceans & marine food webs. Scripps Oceanography PhD candidate Roland Ovbiebo explains why climate action is also critical for reducing mercury exposure. https://bit.ly/4vJ7k4U

How Climate Change Is Reawakening Mercury Pollution - IGCC

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🪸 Think coral is a plant? Plot twist... It's an animal! 🤯 🍽️Join @birchaquarium.bsky.social at Scripps educator Kim Tigerstrom as she shares what corals like to snack on and the clever ways these cool creatures catch their meals. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3RnzS61

❓What are Scripps Oceanography scientists up to? Excellent question! Take a look at a few recent studies led and/or supported by Scripps Oceanography scientists. 🧵⤵️

🧊🌊 Last week, Scripps Oceanography scientists brought the poles to La Jolla Shores during a Polar Science Pop-Up alongside the International Glaciological Society conference. Watch this video to see what polar science is happening right here in San Diego!

💢 Headed to #ComicCon this week? Check out the panel "More Science in Your Fiction with The League of Extraordinary Scientists and Engineers," featuring Scripps Oceanography scientists Ben Frable and Lisa Zeigler! 📆 Friday, July 24 🕐 1-2 PM 📍 Omni Grand Ballroom DE 🔗 https://bit.ly/3Tc5cFu

🌊 A report led by Scripps scientists warns that oxygen loss in aquatic ecosystems could trigger changes lasting centuries. Aquatic deoxygenation is emerging as a major threat to marine life, fisheries & the natural systems regulating Earth's climate. ⤵️ https://bit.ly/4yxcvaL

Oxygen "disappearing" from earth's waters at alarming rate

Scientists warned that low oxygen levels threaten entire food webs, and the phenomenon should be recognised formally in climate frameworks

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Following a four-year study, @scrippsocean.bsky.social researchers found that a network of sensors detected signs of dangerous cliff failures hours to days before collapse, a promising step toward an early warning system. 🌊 https://bit.ly/4wTJgxg

In this year's cohort, Lynn M. Russell of @scrippsocean.bsky.social w/co-investigators from UC San Diego & the International Arctic Research Center, are assessing whether thinning mixed-phase clouds could cool the surface & generate more sea ice. Learn more: oceanvisions.org/arctic-atmos...

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In a new review paper, Scripps Oceanography scientists warn that underwater oxygen loss—aquatic #deoxygenation—is pushing Earth toward an "unsafe space," with potentially irreversible impacts on human timescales. Learn about their call to action. ⤵️ https://bit.ly/3R7wgVI

Underwater Oxygen Loss Threatens Earth's Stability, Researchers Warn

A new review paper led by scientists at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography warns that the rapid loss of oxygen from the ocean and other aquatic ecosystems is pushing Earth toward an “unsafe space,” with consequences that could be irrever...

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🌊 🏆 Congratulations to Clarissa Anderson, a Scripps biological oceanographer & SCCOOS director, for being nominated for the San Diego Magazine STEM - Pioneer Award! Vote for Clarissa, who works to predict ocean hazards and create a more informed public: https://bit.ly/40pTYxQ

🌊 🔁 Deep ocean turbulence (the process that distributes heat, nutrients and carbon from the surface to the seafloor and back) affects our lives within the span of a human lifetime, according to a new report supported by Scripps Oceanography scientists. Dive in to learn more. ⤵️ https://bit.ly/4aUSUas

Scientists Unravel the Fast-Moving ‘Butterfly Effect’ of the Deep Ocean

Scripps Oceanography researchers and colleagues found that deep ocean turbulence affects our lives not on a scale of thousands of years as was previously thought, but within the span of a human lifeti...

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🌊 ⬆️ “What is happening rarely now will happen almost at every high tide when we get to the end of the century.” — Scripps oceanographer Mark Merrifield on rising sea levels' impacts on tides. @erstone7.bsky.social of @laist.com shares more. ⤵️ https://bit.ly/4w1adix

High tides provide glimpse into rising sea levels. A Long Beach neighborhood is on the front lines

The narrow strip of beach on the Long Beach peninsula faces erosion and flooding as climate change and El Niño push tides higher.

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🪸 A new global initiative, known as the Coral Art-Science Consortium, is harnessing the power of science and art to initiate coral reef conservation around the world through coral-inspired art installations, including sculptures, paintings, photography and more. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4gEaMdo

New Global Consortium Unites Art and Science to Inspire Coral Reef Conservation

An international consortium of scientists and artists, known as the Coral Art-Science Consortium, have joined forces to spark action for coral reefs around the world through storytelling, collaboratio...

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📹🌊The Scripps Pier Underwater Camera is back online! The camera's return is made possible thanks to a generous gift from Santa Cruz Paleo, a new sponsor, and due to the hard work of Deep Sea Power and Light and Ocean Innovations. https://coollab.ucsd.edu/pierviz/

Here's critical research from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography that could prevent many deaths worldwide. Cc: @scrippsocean.bsky.social #unstablecliffs #coastalerosion #scripps #environment

Can coastal cliff collapses be predicted? New California research says yes

Discover how Scripps Oceanography researchers detected warning signs hours to days before coastal cliff collapses and what it means for public safety.

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🌥️ Scripps Oceanography researchers used climate models to explore whether temporarily brightening certain marine clouds could reduce some of #ElNiño's worst impacts, like floods and extreme heat. Here's what they found. ⤵️ https://bit.ly/4bkAxf9

Could Geoengineering Work to Tamp Down Super El Niños?

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⚠️Can coastal cliff collapses be predicted? A new 4-year study led by Scripps Oceanography scientists found that in-ground sensors detected movement hours to days before five cliff failures—an important step toward a future early warning system for California's coast.🧵⤵️

✅ What is an "atmospheric river!" If you tuned into Jeopardy on June 25 and are an avid Scripps Oceanography news follower, you may have answered this question correctly! More information about the categorization of #AtmosphericRivers: https://bit.ly/4viHmFh