Resource for teachers and home school

Enjoy, a month of short daily videos (quests) to understand and celebrate our natural world.   #EarthSchool is in session! It is aimed – during this time of lockdown to help show off the wonder and mystery of our planet to our children through a daily, immersive environmental adventure from @UNEP (United Nations Environment Program), @TED_ED and partners: https://bit.ly/Earth-School Other CMBC recommended … Read More

Congratulations to the California Sea Grant 2020 State Fellows

California Sea Grant has selected 28 recipients for its prestigious State Fellowship, making this year’s cohort the largest yet. This opportunity provides fellows with unparalleled and hands-on training at the interface of science, communication, policy, and management at either a municipal, state, or federal host agency in California for one year. Five of those selected are CMBC Alumni all who … Read More

Postponed

Salty Cinema:  Blue Carbon – Postponed to date uncertain Robert Paine Scripps Forum, Scripps Institution of Oceanography Salty Cinema is a community supported forum.  If these events are of value to you, and you have the ability, please contribute to our costs. https://giveto.ucsd.edu/giving/home/gift-referral/11f0bb24-950a-4386-ab11-3515e282eae6 Knowlton/Jackson Distinguished Lecturer –  POSTPONED Robert Paine Scripps Forum, Scripps Institution of Oceanography Speaker:  Dr. Patricia Majluf, … Read More

Microplastics: A Macro Problem

Flying somewhere over the planet, there’s a plane equipped with research-grade double-sided tape on the outside of its hull. Whenever the pilot lands the plane, he removes the tape, seals it in a package, and replaces it with a new one before he takes off again. He then mails the package to Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, … Read More

Nassau Grouper populations increased threefold in response to dynamic fishing management actions in the Cayman Islands

Featured Research fromm the Semmen’s lab:  Collaborative Conservation Approach for Endangered Reef Fish Yields Dramatic Results   A new study from researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego has documented a successful recovery effort among Nassau Grouper populations in the Cayman Islands thanks to an approach involving government agencies, academic researchers, and nonprofit … Read More

How Many Parasites Can a Shore Bird Carry?

Featured research from the Hechinger Lab: The conclusion represents a new line of thinking in parasitology. A team of ecologists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has made a breakthrough that has implications for multiple fields within biology as well as epidemiology. Ecologist Ryan Hechinger and colleagues tested a new way to predict the parasite load carried … Read More

COP-25 Update

With a focus on the oceans, COP 25 is referred to as Blue-COP. Scripps Delegates meet with US Congressional Representatives. Read about it here: Ocean Science for Informed Policy and COP Twitter.