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| Above: Exploring the Blue Planet Researchers Edwin Beckenbach,
Eric Terrill, ’93, and Axel Pierson speed toward Mexico’s
Coronado Island. Their research is part of the Southern California
Ocean Observing System monitoring program. |
UCSD’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography is in the news
so frequently that it is difficult to find enough space in @UCSD to cover its many research breakthroughs and discoveries. After
Katrina, Scripps scientists found themselves on the front lines
of the Global Warming debate, and more recently Scripps announced
a $24 million cooperation with the Venter Institute to create with
UCSD’s Calit2 the Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced
Marine Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis (CAMERA). From earthquake
research to the search for new genes and new medicines, Scripps
researchers are leaders in their fields. And their research takes
them across the globe from the frozen wastes of Antarctica to the
boiling summits of volcanoes. So how to convey the scope and breadth
of that global reach?
We thought a few pictures would be worth a few thousand words.  1. Ice Takes its Toll
The bell on the research vessel Roger Revelle freezes in the frigid
waters off Antarctica.
 2. Baja Fry
Students from the Autonomous University of Baja California Sur
assist marine ecologist Enric Sala collect and measure juvenile
fishes in Mexico.
 3. Iron Island
Scripps Oceanography’s 355-foot-long Floating Instrument
Platform (FLIP) flips from horizontal to vertical becoming a stable
spar-buoy for conducting research.
 4. Cool Job
Scientists Haili Wang and Rick Reynolds
prepare instruments aboard the National Science Foundation’s
research vessel Laurence M. Gould in the Drake Passage of Antarctica’s
Southern Ocean.
 5. Solar Ice
Scripps seismologist Dennis Darnell installs a solar-powered seismometer
package and GPS antenna to record
movements of Antarctica’s soon-to-be
iceberg, Loose Tooth.
 6. Net Worth
Graduate student Cynthia Taylor, ’04,
encounters a rockfish on a sampling dive
off San Diego’s Point Loma.
 7. Hot Stuff
To better understand chemical cycles in
seismic zones, geochemist David Hilton takes measurements at a summit crater of
the active volcano Mount Poás in Costa Rica.
 8. Can I Help?
A penguin watches as research physiologist Gerald Kooyman documents
the emperor penguin colony at Beaufort Island, Antarctica.
 9. Meditative Moment
Physical Oceanography Research
Division principal investigator Dr Daniel Rudnick watches the sunrise
from the fantail of the research vessel
Roger Revelle.
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