CCCIA affiliated staff, postdocs, and grad students recently traveled to North Beach, Kāne‘ohe, on O‘ahu Island, Hawai‘i to help assess the impact of rising sea levels and future wave conditions …
Improving Flood Forecasting Under Sea Level Rise: The Coastal Groundwater Problem in Imperial Beach
by: Austin Barnes, PhD student When we think about the impacts of sea level rise, we often focus on how tides, waves, and storms will intensify its impacts. There is …
Can Green Spaces Mitigate Heat-related Hospitalizations?
Center researcher Maren Hale recently attended AGU Fall Meeting, where she shared her masters’ program capstone work on green space as a heat wave adaptation strategy in an eLightning talk. …
Helping Water Managers and Farmers Address Saltwater Intrusion
Graduate student Lauren Kim is with the SIO Coastal Processes Group and affiliated with the Center. She recently attended the AGU Fall Meeting, where she shared her emerging research on …
How Eddies Influence Oxygen in the Tropical Pacific
The tropical Pacific is home to one of the most unique and biodiverse ecosystem habitats in the world ocean. Intense primary productivity near the surface – fueled by equatorial upwelling …
Matthew Costa and Serge Dedina in “How to Be Good” Podcast
On June 18th, Matthew Costa and Serge Dedina appeared in Gareth and Anca Barrett’s podcast, “How to Be Good”. The podcast explores how people and businesses can help combat climate …
Tropical Pacific Observing Needs Workshop
Dr. Yassir Eddebbar gave the plenary presentation at the second day of the US CLIVAR Tropical Pacific Observing Needs Workshop on Tuesday, May 25th. The three day workshop gathered community input …
Q&A: Undergraduate Researcher Austin Lupo
This week the Center is highlighting undergraduate student researcher, Austin Lupo. Austin is a fourth year UC San Diego Environmental Systems major with a focus in Environmental Chemistry. He is working …
Scripps Oceanography Hosts 2021 Ocean Visions Summit
On May 18-21, Scripps Oceanography hosted the second biannual Ocean Visions Summit. The Summit’s theme was Towards a Global Ecosystem for Ocean Solutions and included participation from satellite campuses around …
Wetland Carbon Sink Research Sees Media Attention
Spectrum News 1 joined Matthew Costa in the field at Famosa Slough in San Diego, one of many local sites Matthew has visited this spring as part of his field …