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The Scripps Institution of Oceanography (sometimes referred to as SIO, Scripps Oceanography, or Scripps) in

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, US founded in 1903, is one of the oldest and largest centers for

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and

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, public service, undergraduate and graduate training in the world. Hundreds of ocean and Earth scientists conduct research with the aid of oceanographic

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s and shorebased laboratories. Its

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is a U.S.

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. SIO is a division of the

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(UCSD). The public explorations center of the institution is the

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at Scripps. Since becoming part of the University of California in 1912, the institution has expanded its scope to include studies of the physics, chemistry, geology, biology, and climate of Earth. Margaret Leinen took office as Vice Chancellor for Marine Sciences, Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and Dean of the Graduate School of Marine Sciences on October 1, 2013. Scripps publishe
''explorations now''
an e-magazine of ocean and earth science.

History

Scripps Institution of Oceanography was founded in 1903 as the Marine Biological Association of San Diego, an independent biological research laboratory. It was proposed and incorporated by a committee of the San Diego Chamber of Commerce, led by local activist and amateur

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Fred Baker, together with two colleagues. He recruited

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professor

William Emerson Ritter William Emerson Ritter (November 21, 1856 – January 10, 1944) was an American biologist. Ritter initiated and shaped the Marine Biological Association of San Diego (now Scripps Institution of Oceanography of UC San Diego) and the American S ...

to head up the proposed marine biology institution, and obtained financial support from local philanthropists

E. W. Scripps Edward Willis Scripps (June 18, 1854 – March 12, 1926), was an American newspaper publisher and, together with his sister Ellen Browning Scripps, founder of The E. W. Scripps Company, a diversified media conglomerate, and United Press ne ...

and his sister

Ellen Browning Scripps Ellen Browning Scripps (October 18, 1836 – August 3, 1932) was an American journalist and philanthropist who was the founding donor of several major institutions in Southern California. She and her half-brother E. W. Scripps created the E. W. ...

. They fully funded the institution for its first decade. It began institutional life in the boathouse of the

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located on

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. It re-located in 1905 to the La Jolla area on the head above

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, and finally in 1907 to its present location. In 1912 Scripps became incorporated into the

and was renamed the "Scripps Institution for Biological Research." Since 1916, measurements have been taken daily at its pier. The name was changed to Scripps Institution of Oceanography in October 1925.Scripps history
During the 1960s, led by Scripps Institution of Oceanography director

Roger Revelle Roger Randall Dougan Revelle (March 7, 1909 – July 15, 1991) was a scientist and scholar who was instrumental in the formative years of the University of California, San Diego and was among the early scientists to study anthropogenic global ...

, it formed the nucleus for the creation of the University of California, San Diego on a bluff overlooking Scripps Institution. The

, designed by

Irving Gill Irving John Gill (April 26, 1870 – October 7, 1936), was an American architect. He did most of his work in Southern California, especially in San Diego and Los Angeles. He is considered a pioneer of the modern movement in architecture. Twelve ...

, was declared a

in 1982. and Architect

Barton Myers Barton Myers (born November 6, 1934) is an American architect and president of Barton Myers Associates Inc. in Santa Barbara, California. With a career spanning more than 40 years, Myers is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects and wa ...

designed the current Scripps Building for the Institution of Oceanography in 1998.

Research programs

The institution's research programs encompass biological, physical, chemical, geological, and geophysical studies of the oceans and land. Scripps also studies the interaction of the oceans with both the atmospheric

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and environmental concerns on ''terra firma.'' Related to this research, Scripps offers undergraduate and graduate degrees. Today, the Scripps staff of 1,300 includes approximately 235 faculty, 180 other scientists and some 350

graduate students Postgraduate or graduate education refers to academic or professional degrees, certificates, diplomas, or other qualifications pursued by post-secondary students who have earned an undergraduate (bachelor's) degree. The organization and struc ...

, with an annual budget of more than $281 million.The institution operates a fleet of four

oceanographic Oceanography (), also known as oceanology and ocean science, is the scientific study of the oceans. It is an Earth science, which covers a wide range of topics, including ecosystem dynamics; ocean currents, waves, and geophysical fluid dynamics ...

s. The Integrated Research Themes encompassing the work done by Scripps researchers are Biodiversity and Conservation, California Environment, Earth and Planetary Chemistry, Earth Through Space and Time, Energy and the Environment, Environment and Human Health, Global Change, Global Environmental Monitoring, Hazards, Ice and Climate, Instruments and Innovation, Interfaces, Marine Life, Modeling Theory and Computing, Sound and Light and the Sea, and Waves and Circulation.

Organizational structure

Scripps Oceanography is divided into three research sections, each with its own subdivisions: * Biology *
Center for Marine Biotechnology & Biomedicine (CMBB)
*
Integrative Oceanography Division (IOD)
*
Marine Biology Research Division (MBRD)
* Earth *
Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP)
*
Geosciences Research Division (GRD)
* Oceans & Atmosphere *
Climate, Atmospheric Science & Physical Oceanography (CASPO)
*
Marine Physical Laboratory (MPL)

California Sea Grant

On October 25, 1973, ''California Sea Grant'' became a college (

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) administered by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the

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Research vessels

Scripps owns and operates several

s and platforms: * RV ''Roger Revelle'' * RV ''Sally Ride'' * RV ''Robert Gordon Sproul'' * RP ''Flip'' * RV ''Bob and Betty Beyster'' ;Current and previous vessels larger than * 1906–???? – RV ''Loma'' * 1907–1917 – RV ''Alexander Agassiz'' * 1918–1918 – RV ''Ellen Browning'' * 1925–1936 – RV ''Scripps'' * 1937–1955 – RV ''E. W. Scripps'' * 1955–1965 – RV ''Stranger'' (Operated as USS ''Jasper'' from 1941 to 1947 for the UC Division of War Research) * 1947–1956 – RV ''Crest'' * 1947–1969 – RV ''Horizon'' * 1948–1965 – RV ''Paolina-T'' * 1951–1965 – RV ''Spencer F.Baird'' * 1955–1969 – T-441 * 1956–1962 – RV ''Orca'' * 1959–1963 – RV ''Hugh M. Smith'' * 1959–1970 – RV ''Argo'' (Official Navy name was Snatch) * 1962–1976 – RV ''Alexander Agassiz'' * 1962–present – RP ''FLIP'' * 1962–1974 – RV ''Oconostota'' (The ''Oconostota'' was known as "The Rolling O" because of its unpleasant motion.) * 1965–1980 – RV ''Alpha Helix'' (Transferred to University of Alaska, Fairbanks in 1980 (UAF sold vessel in 2007 to Stabbert Maritime) * 1965–???? – RV ''Ellen B. Scripps'' * 1966–1992 – RV ''Thomas Washington'' (Transferred to Chile and renamed ''Vidal Gormaz'') * 1969–2014 – RV ''Melville'' * 1973–???? – RV ''Gianna'' * 1978–2015 – RV ''New Horizon'' * 1984–present – RV ''Robert Gordon Sproul'' * 1995–present – RV ''Roger Revelle'' * 2016–present – RV ''Sally Ride'' * 2019-present - RV ''Bob and Betty Beyster''

Birch Aquarium at Scripps

Birch Aquarium at Scripps Birch Aquarium at Scripps (sometimes referred to as Scripps Aquarium or Birch Aquarium) is an aquarium and the public outreach center for Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. Accredited by the Associatio ...

, the public exploration center for the institution, features a Hall of Fishes with more than 60 tanks of Pacific fishes and invertebrates from the cold waters of the Pacific Northwest to the tropical waters of Mexico and the IndoPacific, a 13,000-gallon local shark and ray exhibit, interactive tide pools, and interactive science exhibits.

Notable faculty members (past and present)

Farooq Azam Farooq Azam (born in Lahore, Pakistan ) is a researcher in the field of marine microbiology. He is a Distinguished Professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, at the University of California San Diego. Farooq Azam grew up in Lahore and ...

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Ernest Baldwin Ernest Hubert Francis Baldwin (29 March 1909 – 7 December 1969) was an English biochemist, textbook author and pioneer in the field of comparative biochemistry. Born in Gloucester, Baldwin attended the Crypt Grammar School followed by St. ...

Andrew Benson Andrew Alm Benson (September 24, 1917 – January 16, 2015) was an American biologist and a professor of biology at the University of California, San Diego, until his retirement in 1989. He is known for his work in understanding the carbon cy ...

Hugh Bradner Hugh Bradner (November 5, 1915 – May 5, 2008) was an American physicist at the University of California who is credited with inventing the neoprene wetsuit, which helped to revolutionize scuba diving and surfing. A graduate of Ohio's Miami Un ...

Edward Brinton Edward Brinton (January 12, 1924 – January 13, 2010) was a professor of oceanography and research biologist. His particular area of expertise was Euphausiids or krill, small shrimp-like creatures found in all the oceans of the world. Earl ...

Theodore Holmes Bullock Theodore Holmes Bullock (16 May 1915 – 20 December 2005) is one of the founding fathers of neuroethology. During a career spanning nearly seven decades, this American academic was esteemed both as a pioneering and influential neuroscientist, exami ...

Ralph J. Cicerone Ralph John Cicerone (May 2, 1943 – November 5, 2016) was an American atmospheric scientist and administrator. From 1998 to 2005, he was the chancellor of the University of California, Irvine. From 2005 to 2016, he was the president of the Nati ...

* Robert W. Corell *

Harmon Craig Harmon Craig (March 15, 1926 – March 14, 2003) was an American geochemist who worked briefly for the University of Chicago (1951-1955) before spending the majority of his career at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (1955-2003). Craig was in ...

* Paul J. Crutzen * Russ E. Davis *

Paul K. Dayton Paul Kuykendall Dayton (born April 8, 1941 in Tucson, Arizona) is a biological oceanographer and marine ecologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Dayton works in Benthic zone, benthic ecology, marine conservation, evolution, natural h ...

Edward DeLong Edward Francis DeLong (born 1958), is a marine microbiologist and professor in the Department of Oceanography at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, and is considered a pioneer in the field of metagenomics. He is best known for his discovery of th ...

Robert S. Dietz Robert Sinclair Dietz (September 14, 1914 – May 19, 1995) was a scientist with the US Coast and Geodetic Survey. Dietz, born in Westfield, New Jersey, was a marine geologist, geophysicist and oceanographer who conducted pioneering research along ...

* Seibert Q. Duntley *

Carl Eckart Carl Henry Eckart (May 4, 1902 – October 23, 1973) was an American physicist, physical oceanographer, geophysicist, and administrator. He co-developed the Wigner–Eckart theorem and is also known for the Eckart conditions in quantum mechanics ...

Jim T. Enright James T. Enright (b. 1932) was a professor of behavioral physiology at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego. He has conducted research on circadian rhythms and sensory physiology in both crustaceans and hu ...

David Epel David Epel is a researcher at Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove, California, and a Professor (Emeritus) in the Department of Biology at Stanford University. Epel earned his Ph.D. at University of California Berkeley under Daniel Mazia. He a ...

Edward A. Frieman Edward Allan Frieman (January 19, 1926 – April 11, 2013) was an American physicist who worked on plasma physics and nuclear fusion. He was the director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography from 1986 through 1996, and then the senior vice ...

Robert Garrels Robert Minard Garrels (August 24, 1916 – March 8, 1988) was an American geochemist. Garrels applied experimental physical chemistry data and techniques to geology and geochemistry problems. The book ''Solutions, Minerals, and Equilibria'' co-auth ...

Freeman Gilbert James Freeman Gilbert (August 9, 1931 – August 15, 2014) was an American geophysicist, best known for his work with George E. Backus on inverting geophysical data, and also for his role in establishing an international network of long-period s ...

Edward D. Goldberg Edward David Goldberg (August 2, 1921 – March 7, 2008) was a marine chemist, known for his studies of pollution in the oceans. Biography Goldberg was born on August 2, 1921, in Sacramento, California. He received his B.S. in chemistry from t ...

Klaus Hasselmann Klaus Ferdinand Hasselmann (, born 25 October 1931) is a German oceanographer and climate modeller. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Hamburg and former Director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology. He was awarded the 2021 ...

Joel Hedgpeth Joel Walker Hedgpeth (September 29, 1911 – July 28, 2006) was a marine biologist, environmentalist and author. He was an expert on the marine arthropods known as sea spiders (Pycnogonida), and on the seashore plant and animal life of southern ...

Walter Heiligenberg Walter F. Heiligenberg (January 31, 1938 – September 8, 1994) was a German American scientist best known for his neuroethology work on one of the best neurologically understood behavioral patterns in a vertebrate, '' Eigenmannia''. This weakly ...

* Myrl C. Hendershott *

Sam Hinton Sam Duffie Hinton (March 31, 1917 – September 10, 2009) was an American folk singer, marine biologist, photographer, and aquarist, best known for his music and harmonica The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free ...

Carl Hubbs Carl Leavitt Hubbs (October 19, 1894 – June 30, 1979) was an American ichthyologist. Biography Youth He was born in Williams, Arizona. He was the son of Charles Leavitt and Elizabeth (née Goss) Hubbs. His father had a wide variety of jobs (f ...

Douglas Inman Douglas Lamar Inman (July 7, 1920 – February 11, 2016) was a Professor of Oceanography at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Born in Guam, the Marianas Islands, he received his B.A in physics/geology in 1942 from California State Univers ...

John Dove Isaacs John Dove Isaacs III (March 28, 1913 – June 6, 1980) was an American engineer and oceanographer. He became full professor at the University of California, San Diego, which honored him posthumously by creating the John Dove Isaacs Chair in Nat ...

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Martin W. Johnson Martin Wiggo Johnson (September 30, 1893 – November 28, 1984), was an American oceanographer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He is known as an author of the landmark reference work ''The Oceans: Their Physics, Chemistry and General B ...

Thomas H. Jordan Thomas H. Jordan is an American seismologist, and former director (2002-2017) of the Southern California Earthquake Center at The University of Southern California. He was formerly the head of the Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Depa ...

Miriam Kastner Miriam Kastner (born January 22, 1935) is a Bratislavan born, (former Czechoslovakia) Israeli raised, American oceanographer and geochemist. Kastner is currently a Distinguished Professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University o ...

Charles David Keeling Charles David Keeling (April 20, 1928 – June 20, 2005) was an American scientist whose recording of carbon dioxide at the Mauna Loa Observatory confirmed Svante Arrhenius's proposition (1896) of the possibility of anthropogenic contribution to ...

* Ralph Keeling *

Charles Kennel Charles F. Kennel (born August 20, 1939) is an American plasma physicist and former Associate Administrator of NASA. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and won the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics in 1997. In ...

Nancy Knowlton Nancy Knowlton is a coral reef biologist and a former Sant Chair for Marine Science at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Life She graduated from Harvard University, and from the University of California, Berkeley, with a PhD. ...

Lisa Levin Lisa A. Levin is a Distinguished Professor of biological oceanography and marine ecology at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She holds the Elizabeth Hamman and Morgan Dene Oliver Chair in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation Science. She ...

Ralph A. Lewin Ralph Arnold Lewin (30 April 1921 – 30 November 2008) was an Anglo-American biologist, known as "the father of green algae genetics". He was born in London and later moved to America. He also was known as a poetry author. Education He studied a ...

Michael S. Longuet-Higgins Michael Selwyn Longuet-Higgins FRS (8 December 1925 – 26 February 2016) was a mathematician and oceanographer at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP), Cambridge University, England and Institute for Nonlinea ...

Edwin P. Martz Edwin P. Martz, Jr (1916 – September 25, 1967 or 1966) was an American physicist and astronomer. He worked with William Pickering at Lowell Observatory in 1937 creating the first color photographs of Mars. He then worked at the Dearborn Observa ...

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Henry William Menard Henry William Menard (December 10, 1920 – February 9, 1986) was an American geologist. Life and career He earned a B.S. and M.S. from the California Institute of Technology in 1942 and 1947, having served in the South Pacific during World War ...

Mario J. Molina Mario José Molina-Pasquel Henríquez (19 March 19437 October 2020), known as Mario Molina, was a Mexican chemist. He played a pivotal role in the discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole, and was a co-recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemis ...

* John W. Miles *

B. Greg Mitchell Brian Gregory Mitchell is a research biologist and senior lecturer working at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, a department of the University of California, San Diego. Early life and education Mitchell was born to billionaire Texas oilman a ...

Judith Munk Judith Munk (April 10, 1925 – May 19, 2006) was an American artist and designer associated with Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She was inducted into the San Diego Women's Hall of Fame posthumously, in 2008. Early life and education Jud ...

Walter Munk Walter Heinrich Munk (October 19, 1917 – February 8, 2019) was an American physical oceanographer. He was one of the first scientists to bring statistical methods to the analysis of oceanographic data. His work won awards including the Nation ...

Jerome Namias Jerome Namias (March 19, 1910 – February 10, 1997) was an American meteorologist, whose research included ''El Niño''. Biography Jerome "Jerry" Namias was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the second son of Joseph Namias, an optometrist, and ...

William Nierenberg William Aaron Nierenberg (February 13, 1919 – September 10, 2000) was an American physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and was director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography from 1965 through 1986. He was a co-founder of the Ge ...

* Pearn P. Niiler *

Stewart Nozette Stewart David Nozette (born May 20, 1957) is an American planetary scientist, technologist, and consultant who worked for the United States Department of Energy, the United States Department of Defense, DARPA, the United States Naval Research Labo ...

Veerabhadran Ramanathan Veerabhadran "Ram" Ramanathan (born 24 November 1944) is Edward A. Frieman Endowed Presidential Chair in Climate Sustainability Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego. He has contributed to many areas of the a ...

Dean Roemmich Dean Roemmich ( ) is a contemporary American physical oceanographer. Roemmich was the early leader behind the sensors array Argo which continuously and globally measures vertical profiles of oceanic conditions, chiefly temperature and salinity. ...

Richard Heinrich Rosenblatt Richard Heinrich Rosenblatt (December 21, 1930 – October 14, 2014) was an American ichthyologogist. Rosenblatt was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1930, and died in San Diego, California in 2014. Rosenblatt was awarded the Frederick H. St ...

Enric Sala Enric Sala (born November 26, 1968, Girona) is a former university professor who saw himself writing the obituary of ocean life, and quit academia to become a full-time conservationist as a National Geographic Society, National Geographic Explorer ...

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Hans Suess Hans Eduard Suess (December 16, 1909 – September 20, 1993) was an Austrian born United States, American physical chemist and nuclear physicist. He was a grandson of the Austrian geologist Eduard Suess. Career Suess earned his Ph.D. in chemist ...

Francis Parker Shepard Francis Parker Shepard (10 May 1897 – 25 April 1985) was an American sedimentologist most associated with his studies of submarine canyons and seafloor currents around continental shelves and slopes. Early life and education Shepard was bo ...

Cornelius Cole Smith, Jr. Cornelius Cole "Corney" Smith Jr. (July 18, 1913 – April 27, 2004) was an American author, military historian, illustrator and painter. A survivor of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, he was an officer in the United States Marines during ...

Richard Somerville Richard Chapin James Somerville (born 30 May 1941) is an American climate scientist who is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, where he has been a professor since ...

* Fred Spiess *

Janet Sprintall Janet Sprintall is an Australian-born oceanographer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She specializes in inter-basin exchanges, and in particular in the Indonesian throughflow and dynamics of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current through the Dra ...

George Sugihara George Sugihara (born in Tokyo, Japan) is currently a professor of biological oceanography in the Physical Oceanography Research Division at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, where he is the inaugural holder of the McQuown Chair in Natural ...

* Harald Sverdrup *

Lynne Talley Lynne Talley (born May 18, 1954) is a physical oceanographer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography known for her research into the large-scale circulation of water masses in the global ocean. Early life and education Talley received a B.A. i ...

* Warren White *

Klaus Wyrtki Klaus Wyrtki (February 7, 1925 – February 5, 2013) was an American physical oceanographer. Born in Tarnowitz, Upper Silesia, Poland, in 1925, from 1945-1948 Wyrtki attended the University of Marburg in Germany, and received his Ph.D. from the ...

Victor Vacquier Victor Vacquier, Sr. (October 13, 1907 – January 11, 2009) was a professor of geophysics at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego... Vacquier was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. In 1920, Vacquier ...

Sr. and son *

Benjamin Elazari Volcani Benjamin Elazari Volcani (Hebrew: בנימין אלעזרי-וולקני, born 4 January 1915, died 1 February 1999) was an Israeli microbiologist who discovered life in the Dead Sea and pioneered biological silicon research at Scripps Institutio ...

* Lihini Aluwihare

Notable alumni

Tanya Atwater Tanya Atwater (born 1942) is an American geophysicist and marine geologist who specializes in plate tectonics. She is particularly renowned for her early research on the plate tectonic history of western North America. Early life and education At ...

* Thomas E. Bowman III *

* Stephen E. Calvert *

Kim Cobb Kim M. Cobb (born 1974) is an American climate scientist. She is Professor of Environment and Society and Professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Brown University, where she directs the Institute at Brown for Environment and ...

Jack Corliss John B. ("Jack") Corliss is a scientist who has worked in the fields of geology, oceanography, and the origins of life. Corliss is a University of California, San Diego Alumnus, receiving his PhD from Scripps Institution of Oceanography in the ...

* John M. Edmond *

Kenneth Farley Kenneth A. Farley is a noble gas isotope geochemist and Professor of Geochemistry at the California Institute of Technology. He holds the W. M. Keck Foundation professorship and was the chairman of the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences ...

* Michael Freilich *

Susan M. Gaines Susan M Gaines is an American writer. She is the author of the novels ''Accidentals'' (2020) and ''Carbon Dreams'' (2001), and co-author with Geoffrey Eglinton and Jurgen Rullkötter of the science book '' Echoes of Life: What Fossil Molecules Re ...

Timothy Gallaudet Timothy Cole Gallaudet is an American oceanographer who is a retired Rear Admiral in the United States Navy. Gallaudet previously served as the ''Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere'' within the U.S. Department of Commerce. ...

Eric Giddens Eric M. Giddens (born 8 May 1973 in Atlanta) is an American slalom kayaker who competed from the early 1990s to the early 2000s. Career Giddens finished 20th in the men's K1 slalom event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Giddens has been ...

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Megan McArthur Katherine Megan McArthur (born August 30, 1971) is an American oceanographer, engineer, and NASA astronaut. She has served as a Capsule Communicator (CAPCOM) for both the Space Shuttle and International Space Station (ISS). Megan McArthur has fl ...

James J. McCarthy James J. McCarthy (January 25, 1944 – December 11, 2019) was a Professor of Biological Oceanography at Harvard and was president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science from February 2008 to February 2009. McCarthy was the ...

Marcia McNutt Marcia Kemper McNutt (born February 19, 1952) is an American geophysicist and the 22nd president of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) of the United States. Previously, she served as editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal ''Science'' fro ...

Jessica Meir Jessica Ulrika Meir (IPA: ; ; born ) is an American-Swedish NASA astronaut, marine biologist, and physiologist. She was previously an assistant professor of anesthesia at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, following ...

Wheeler J. North Wheeler James North (January 2, 1922 – December 20, 2002), born in San Francisco, California, was a marine biologist and Environmental science, environmental scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the California Institute of T ...

* Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara *

Colm Ó hEocha Colm Ó hEocha (; 19 September 1926 – 19 May 1997) was an Irish scientist and educationalist, who served as president of University College Galway and Chairman of the New Ireland Forum. Ó hEocha was born in Dungarvan, County Waterford, in 192 ...

* Joseph R. Pawlik * George Perry * S. K. Satheesh *

Brinke Stevens Brinke Stevens (born Charlene Elizabeth Brinkman, September 20, 1954) is an American actress, model, and writer. A native of San Diego, Stevens initially pursued a career as a marine biologist prior to becoming an actress, earning an undergradu ...

Christopher Stott Christopher Bryan Robert "Chris" Stott (born July 1969) is a Manx-born American space entrepreneur. He is best known for co-founding the regulatory and orbital frequency services company, ManSat, Odyssey Moon, and the International Institute of ...

* Brian Tucker

Popular culture

In 2014, the institution and its Keeling Curve measurement of atmospheric carbon dioxide levels were featured as a plot point in an episode of HBO's ''The Newsroom''. In 2008, Scripps Institution of Oceanography was the subject of a category on the TV game show ''

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''. Scripps has been a story element in numerous fictional works.

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography''explorations'' E-MagazineSupport ScrippsBirch Aquarium at Scripps"How Scripps Institution Came To San Diego", ''The Journal of San Diego History'' 27:3 (Summer 1981) by Elizabeth N. ShorScripps Institution of Oceanography digital collection on HathiTrust Digital Library
{{Authority control Oceanographic organizations University of California, San Diego La Jolla, San Diego Organizations based in San Diego Universities and colleges in San Diego National Register of Historic Places in San Diego Scripps family Barton Myers buildings 1903 establishments in California