Researchers at CCCIA were recently awarded a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s Coastlines and People program for a 5-year project to study extreme heat and its impacts …
Julia R. Brown Fund Supports Students To Expand Their Climate Change Research and Professional Learning Experiences
Nine students were granted scholarships from the Center’s Julia R. Brown Fund in the 2021-2022 academic year. These students were pursuing their MAS degrees in either Climate Science and Policy …
Center staff coauthors new Sea Level Rise Application Guide
Every five years, U.S. federal agencies update sea level rise projections and release a technical summary report. As the latest 2022 update was being developed, Laura Engeman, a coastal resilience …
Researchers Share How They’ve Used 100+ Years Of Scripps Pier Data at Recent Scripps Pier Symposium
Data collected at Scripps Pier has been integral to cutting-edge oceanographic and climate research for more than 100 years. Daily sea surface temperature and salinity recordings began in 1916 and …
Scripps Research Team Supports US Military to Assess Future Coastal Flooding Vulnerabilities
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 …
The Connection Between Southern California Drought and Climate Variability
Sierra Byrne recently attended the 2022 Ocean Sciences Meeting where she delivered an oral presentation on her ongoing research of Southern California drought variability as seen through a sea surface …
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 …