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USD students partner with San Diego to boost Think Blue initiative

January 7, 2023 By sdcnews

By SDCN Editor San Diego, CA–To bolster public understanding of the importance of stormwater services to San Diego’s quality of life, the City of San Diego’s Stormwater Department partnered with the University of San Diego (USD) on a student-driven project with teams competing to create the best marketing campaign to enhance the Think Blue San Diego public […]

Filed Under: Environment, Ocean Tagged With: Environment, Ocean

Little rodent, big appetite

December 22, 2022 By sdcnews

By Newswise On an island 30 miles off the coast of San Francisco, a hoard of invasive house mice is packing an ecological wallop far larger than what their small statures would suggest.  These are the conclusions of a study led by LSU Associate Professor of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences Michael Polito, along with researchers […]

Filed Under: Ocean, Science & Technology Tagged With: Ocean, Science & Technology

Marine researcher identifies new bottlenose dolphin subspecies

December 17, 2022 By sdcnews

By Newswise A marine researcher at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science has identified a new bottlenose dolphin subspecies found only in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean.   “While there is a common belief that all dolphin species are already known, improvements in technologies and methodologies are helping to […]

Filed Under: Ocean, Science & Technology Tagged With: Ocean, Science & Technology

San Diego offers the public to learn about marine Environment for World Oceans Day

June 7, 2022 By sdcnews

San Diego, CA–Ahead of World Oceans Day this Wednesday, the City of San Diego is encouraging the public to learn about local coastal waters through a series of videos that describe the diverse work of its Ocean Monitoring Program in studying the effects of regional wastewater treatment processes on the marine environment. The videos look […]

Filed Under: Environment, Ocean Tagged With: Environment, Ocean

Scientists uncover an additional threat to Antarctica’s floating ice shelves

September 30, 2021 By sdcnews

Irvine, CA–Glaciologists at the University of California, Irvine and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have examined the dynamics underlying the calving of the Delaware-sized iceberg A68 from Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf in July 2017, finding the likely cause to be a thinning of ice melange, a slushy concoction of windblown snow, iceberg debris and frozen […]

Filed Under: Science & Technology Tagged With: Ocean, Science & Technology

Microbes in ocean play important role in moderating Earth’s temperature

June 17, 2021 By sdcnews

(Newswise)–Methane is a strong greenhouse gas that plays a key role in Earth’s climate. Anytime we use natural gas, whether we light up our kitchen stove or barbeque, we are using methane. Only three sources on Earth produce methane naturally: volcanoes, subsurface water-rock interactions, and microbes. Between these three sources, most is generated by microbes, […]

Filed Under: Science & Technology Tagged With: Ocean, Science and technology

Warm oceans helped first human migration from Asia to North America

December 12, 2020 By sdcnews

(Newswise)–New research reveals significant changes to the circulation of the North Pacific and its impact on the initial migration of humans from Asia to North America. The new international study led by the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of St Andrews and published Dec. 9 in Science Advances provides a new picture of […]

Filed Under: Science & Technology Tagged With: Ocean, Science & Technology

Birch Aquarium O-Fish-Ally opens

July 6, 2020 By sdcnews

LA JOLLA–After three days of member previews, Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego officially reopened to the public.   Those returning to the aquarium will notice a number of changes aimed at keeping guests — as well as staff and volunteers — safe and healthy. Guest capacity will be limited during this […]

Filed Under: Science & Technology Tagged With: Ocean, Science & Technology

Cardiff State Beach honored with the Best Restored Beach Award

May 22, 2020 By sdcnews

ENCINITAS–The American Shore and Beach Preservation Association announced May 18 that the Cardiff State Beach Living Shoreline project in Encinitas won the top honor for the 2020 Best Restored Beach Award.  By utilizing recovered and imported rock materials, dredged sand from the San Elijo Lagoon inlet and locally sourced coastal plants, this dune creation project […]

Filed Under: Environment, Ocean Tagged With: Conservation, Environment, Ocean

NASA, French space laser measures massive migration of ocean animals

November 28, 2019 By sdcnews

Every night, under the cover of darkness, countless small sea creatures – from squid to krill – swim from the ocean depths to near the surface to feed.  This vast animal migration – the largest on the planet and a critical part of Earth’s climate system – has been observed globally for the first time […]

Filed Under: Science & Technology Tagged With: Ocean, Science & Technology

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