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UC San Diego-Led Science Team Selected for NASA Satellite Mission The Earth Dynamics Geodetic Explorer (EDGE) satellite is one of two next generation satellites selected by NASA to help better understand Earth and improve capabilities to foresee environmental events...

Learn more about EDGE, and join us in congratulating Dr. Fricker and the EDGE team! ⤵️
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EDGE will:

🛰️ Deliver cutting-edge observations of land, vegetation, ice & coastal regions
🌎 Provide much higher resolution and accuracy, enabling a more comprehensive view of the dynamics of the Earth’s surface
🌧️ Capture environmental intelligence in critical regions

EDGE orbit (orange tracks) extends to the polar regions allowing for dense mapping around the edges of ice sheets and sea ice pack. Credit: EDGE

🛰️BIG NEWS! NASA has selected a
@ucsandiego.bsky.social led satellite mission for the Earth System Explorers program. Led by Scripps Oceanography glaciologist @helen-amanda.bsky.social, Earth Dynamics Geodetic Explorer (EDGE) is one of two next-generation satellite missions selected. 🧵⤵️

2 scientists are working on the field calibration of a tipping bucket rain gauge at a surface meteorological station. The station is part of a larger network of sites deployed in the upper Russian River watershed.

💧#NowHiring: Join a partnership with @cw3escripps.bsky.social, @ca-dwr.bsky.social and @nws.noaa.gov to bridge research + real-time operations. This role works alongside hydrologic forecasting teams, supports emergency response and reservoir operations and more! employment.ucsd.edu/research-and...

The forecast for Super Bowl Sunday near Levi's Stadium is mostly dry and warm, with a slight chance of light rain in the evening. Normally, December, January and February are the three wettest months of the year in northern California, but it has been unusually dry since early January.

How to appreciate the whales of San Diego San Diegans can find multiple species of whales at various times throughout the year off the area's shores. On Midday Edition Tuesday, we hear from local whale experts Nicole Schriber and Domenic Biag...

🐋 Whale, whale, whale, what do we have here? A @kpbssandiego.bsky.social highlight on how to check out the magic of whales, featuring Scripps Oceanography graduate student and cetacean enthusiast Nicole Schriber!
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Perspectives on Ocean Science Lecture Series

🌊 What are Marine Prosperity Areas?

@octavioaburto.bsky.social, a Scripps Oceanography marine ecologist, shares more about how the new comprehensive and holistic framework benefits both people and the planet in next week's @birchaquarium.bsky.social Perspectives Lecture.

🔗 https://bit.ly/45ESPoM

Help Us Name Our ROV!

This month, an NSF-supported research team led by DRI, @usf.edu, and @scrippsocean.bsky.social will deploy to the Antarctic Peninsula aboard the R/V Sikuliaq—and their ROV needs a name.

💬 Reply to us with your best suggestion and help us name our new member of the team!

2 people on Kumeyaay tule boats at Love Your Wetlands Day

We 💙 #wetlands, and you should, too!

Join us for Love Your Wetlands Day at @ucsandiego.bsky.social's Kendall-Frost Marsh Reserve in Mission Bay on Saturday, Feb 7. Learn about marsh research, build Kumeyaay tule boats, clean up the marsh on guided walks and more!
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Left: GEFS maximum observed coastal AR Scale for the 7-day period ending 4 PM PST 1 Feb 2026. Center: GEFS control AR Scale and IVT analyses for the 7-day period ending 4 PM PST 1 Feb 2026 at 47.5°N, 124.5°W. Right: NWS Stage IV total estimated precipitation for the 6-day period ending 4 AM PST 2 Feb 2026.

A family of #AtmosphericRivers brought moderate-to-heavy precipitation to portions of Washington last week.

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Positive Interactions Dominate Among Marine Microbes, Six-Year Study Reveals A six-year analysis of marine microbes in coastal California waters has overturned long-held assumptions about how the ocean's smallest organisms interact. Researchers at UC San Diego’s Scripps Instit...

🦠Tiny organisms, big-time resilience! 💪
Researchers at Scripps Oceanography found that marine microbes cooperate more than they compete, and that warmer, more stressful ocean conditions actually boost this cooperation. Learn more! ⤵️

Triton Sustainability Challenge

A presenter at the Triton Sustainability Challenge

A presenter in front of an audience at the Triton Sustainability Challenge

💡 Hey @ucsandiego.bsky.social innovators, entrepreneurs and sustainability-minded folks—the Triton Sustainability Challenge returns to campus and is now accepting applications! Submit your innovative technology that impacts the environment here: https://bit.ly/3ZeKDYA

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Hey! We're Scripps Oceanography, and we want to connect with people interested in:

🔬 Marine Science
🌍 Earth Science
📈 Climate Change
⚠️ Hazards
🐟 Marine Life
💊 Biotechnology and Biomedicine
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🌧️ Atmospheric Science
➗ Geophysics
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Congratulations to Professor Ramanathan on receiving the 2026 Crafoord Prize in Geosciences! 🎉 Thank you to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for recognizing his important climate research.

🏅Congratulations to @ucsandiego.bsky.social & Scripps Oceanography climate scientist Veerabhadran Ramanathan for earning the prestigious Crafoord Prize — one of the world’s most prestigious science awards given by @scienceacademyswe.bsky.social!

➡️ Learn more: bit.ly/3NKC8lC

Scientist in lab coat conducting an experiment in a laboratory, with a speech bubble saying 'What's happening to our food?'.

What’s happening to our food? 🐟 UC San Diego researchers at @scrippsocean.bsky.social study seafood safety and sustainability. 🔗 https://bit.ly/3LNqGVy

#UCSanDiego #Sustainability #Seafood

Why some fishes got bigger when oceans got colder? - Dahiana Arcila & Emily Troyer Climate has shaped life in the oceans for millions of years, but how exactly has it influenced the evolution of body size in fishes? In our study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we explored how ancient temperature changes ...

🐠 📈 Did our changing climate make fish bigger? All signs point to 'YES' according to research spearheaded by the Fish Evolution Lab at Scripps. Watch this video to see how ancient ocean temperatures shaped the evolution of fish body size. ⬇️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=shared&v=ZC2sYK-rSVk

🛑 STOP scrolling and enjoy these photos captured by Nicole Schriber!

📸🐋 She's a Scripps Oceanography student who uses the power of photography to help tell the story of her research, where she models baleen whale presence in Antarctica using physical oceanography.

Page 1 of Quick Look. Summary of key forecast information.

Page 2 of Quick Look. GFS integrated vapor transport (IVT; shading and vectors) and sea-level pressure (SLP; contours) forecasts valid at 10 AM PST Tue 27 Jan (top left), 10 AM PST Wed 28 Jan (top right), 4 PM PST Thu 29 Jan (bottom left), and 4 PM PST Sat 31 Jan (bottom right).

Page 3 of Quick Look. (Top) GEFS ensemble probability of AR conditions [IVT≥250 kg/(ms)] along the West Coast of North America for the 16-day period valid 4 AM PST Mon 26 Jan through 4 AM PST Wed 11 Feb. (Bottom) GEFS 7-day control and ensemble AR Scale and IVT forecasts for 47°N, 124°W (coastal southern Washington).

Page 4 of Quick Look. Top: NWS Weather Prediction Center (WPC) excessive rainfall outlooks (EROs) valid for the 24-hour periods ending 4 AM PST Thu 29 Jan, Fri 30 Jan, and Sat 31 Jan. Bottom left: WPC Total quantitative precipitation forecast (QPF) valid for the 7-day period ending 4 AM PST Mon 2 Feb. Bottom right: GEFS ensemble freezing level and WPC 6-hourly QPF forecasts in the Duwamish watershed for the 7-day period ending 4 AM PST Mon 2 Feb.

CW3E AR Update: Multiple #AtmosphericRivers are forecast to bring heavy precipitation to portions of the Pacific Northwest this week.

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New research in Europe to track atmospheric rivers - The World from PRX Europe’s first flights to study atmospheric rivers took off from Ireland today. The flights will focus on understanding the phenomena from the North Atlantic. The World’s Host Carolyn Beeler speaks wi...

🌎 ✈️ 🌍 The #AtmosphericRiver Reconnaissance program, led by @cw3escripps.bsky.social and @noaa.gov, has gone global! International partners have joined forces, and the first flights are officially airborne.@hannahchanatry.bsky.social at @theworld.org has more ⬇️
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Scientists track coastal erosion after holiday storms using laser scans Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography are using laser scanners to measure the increased erosion and small landslides along San Diego’s coastline caused by recent rainfall.

Members of the Coastal Processes Group at Scripps spoke to FOX5/KUSI about the weekly coastal surveys they perform using high-tech laser scanners to measure erosion along beaches & coastal bluffs. This data helps researchers understand how the shoreline is evolving. Learn more:https://bit.ly/3YR0Xi4

Should We Bet on Climate Moonshots? The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2026 considers advanced climate technologies including fusion, carbon‑dioxide removal and solar radiation modification in relation to long‑term climate ambition...

She also moderated this panel exploring technologies that could tip the balance in the fight against climate change: www.weforum.org/meetings/wor...

Event sessions The World Economic Forum is an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic and other leaders of society to shape glob...

Watch her panel on safeguarding glaciers and mountain regions here: www.weforum.org/de/open-foru...

🌍 Scripps Oceanography Director @minwadhwa.bsky.social is at the @weforum.org Annual Meeting, joining global leaders to spotlight the role of ocean action in addressing climate change. At #AM26, she is sharing insights on the latest state of climate science & why investing in our ocean is essential.

Study Finds Ocean Impacts Nearly Double Economic Cost of Climate Change For the first time, a study from researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego integrates climate-related damages to the ocean into the social cost of ca...

You can get the answer here: scripps.ucsd.edu/news/study-f...

❓Quiz time!

According to a new study led by Scripps Oceanography scientists, the market damages are projected to be the largest cost to society, totaling global annual losses of _____ in the year 2100.

Positive Interactions Dominate Among Marine Microbes, Six-Year Study Reveals A six-year analysis of marine microbes in coastal California waters has overturned long-held assumptions about how the ocean's smallest organisms interact. Researchers at UC San Diego’s Scripps Instit...

🦠 A study led by Scripps Oceanography scientists reveals that #MarineMicrobes exhibited mostly positive interactions with one another over a six-year period. These positive interactions became even more common during times of environmental stress. Dive into the study. ⬇️

Opinion: You have until Friday to comment on proposed offshore oil drilling We have lived the consequences of drilling in our ocean.

📣 If you're concerned about offshore drilling, here's your chance to raise your voice. Samantha Murray, an ocean law and policy professor at Scripps Oceanography, shares how citizens can share their concerns in this @sandiegouniontribune.com Opinion piece. ⬇️

The Keeling Curve The Keeling Curve is a daily record of global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration maintained by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.

430.54 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 14-Jan-2026
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