Research Focus Archives: 2012

An in-depth look at current Scripps research in action.

November

• Expedition Blog: Mixing at the Margins
  Follow along through Dec. 3 as Scripps researchers and students aboard R/V Melville study ocean mixing and how internal waves are generated and propagate in coastal waters off California.
  

October

• Local Marine Bass Assessment Project
  Scripps scientist Brice Semmens is leading a collaborative research project off La Jolla to assess the movements, abundance, and mortality of local marine bass
  
• Exploring Young Volcanoes
  Follow a team of researchers from Scripps and Mexico aboard R/V Melville as they study an eruptive rift zone known as the borderlands that extends along the coasts of Baja California and California.
  
• Underwater Microscope Zooms in on Tiny Marine Animals
  Probe the microscopic marine world with this American Museum of Natural History video about Scripps researchers Jules Jaffe and Peter Franks and their development of the world's first underwater video microscope.
  

August

• Grouper Moon Project Video
  Join Scripps scientist Brice Semmens in an undersea educational expedition off the western tip of Little Cayman Island as he chats live with students as part of the "Grouper Moon Project."
  
• Tonga Trench Expedition
  This student-led research cruise, running Aug. 31-Sept. 6, 2012, is a rare opportunity for scientists to explore the Tonga Trench in the South Pacific Ocean, the second deepest trench in the world. Follow along as they blog about their deep-sea adventures from aboard R/V Revelle.
  

July

• Scripps Oceanography Reaches $150 Million Research Milestone
  Sponsored projects awards at leading ocean and earth science institution achieve record
  

June

• San Diego Coastal Expedition
  Student-led UC Ship Funds Program voyage to explore the health of local San Diego waters June 30-July 10. Follow along through their daily blogs!
  
• Scripps' Fabulous FLIP Turns 50!
  The only one of its kind in the world, Scripps Institution of Oceanography's FLoating Instrument Platform (FLIP) celebrates the 50th anniversary of its launch. See images, video, and more information about this amazing instrument.
  
• IODP Video: Expedition 342 Newfoundland
  Join Scripps paleobiologist Richard Norris and his colleagues as they lead an Integrated Ocean Drilling Program expedition that includes investigations of climate phenomena that may have played a central role in the Titanic disaster.
  

May

• Revisiting the site of the 2010 Chilean earthquake
  Scripps' R/V Melville to study why rupture did not extend to the seafloor during the Feb. 27, 2010 magnitude 8.8 megathrust earthquake beneath central Chile.
  

April

• New UC Ship Funds Voyage of Discovery
  R/V Melville departs Punta Arenas led by Scripps Institution of Oceanography students and researchers to study the geology and biology of seafloor vents located near the Chile Triple Junction.
  
• Traveling ‘Down Under’ to Study Seadragons
  Birch Aquarium at Scripps blog: Read about research in Australia and efforts to advance seadragon conservation efforts worldwide
  
• Titanic 100 Years Later
  Scripps Science and the World's Most Famous Disaster
  

March

• Scripps Scientists Onboard as James Cameron Completes Historic Dive to the Mariana Trench
  Scripps Institution of Oceanography is the DEEPSEA CHALLENGE voyage’s primary science collaborator.