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Dozens of Jumbo Squid Beached After Quake--Coincidence?
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Residents near a San Diego-area beach awoke to find dozens of jumbo squid, also called Humboldt squid, flapping helplessly on the shore Saturday—about an hour after an earthquake had struck off the...
San Diego UnderSea Film- Deadline
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This is a call for entries for the 10th Annual San Diego UnderSea Film Exhibition. Submission deadline is July 15, 2009.
San Diego UnderSea Film Exhibition Call For Entries
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A call for entries for the 10th Annual San Diego UnderSea Film Exhibition
Unusually Large Family of Green Fluorescent Proteins Discovered
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Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have discovered a family of green
fluorescent proteins
Premiere of "A Sea Change"
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego will host the Southern California premiere of the film, "A Sea Change," the first documentary about ocean acidification
Going Nudi in California: Part II
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Part II of Mike Bartick's ongoing series on Nudi diving and underwater photography in California
San Diego Underwater Photographic Society- 40th Annual Film Festival
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The San Diego Underwater Photographic Society (SDUPS) is proud to announce that its 40th Annual Film Festival will be held April 25, 2009 in San Diego, CA.
Worm-like Marine Animal Providing Fresh Clues About Human Evolution
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Research on the genome of a marine creature led by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego is shedding new light on a key area of the tree of life
Jeremy Jackson Honored By Harvard Museum Of Natural History
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Jeremy Jackson, renowned marine ecologist with Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, has been selected to receive the 11th annual Roger Tory Peterson Medal presented by the Harvard...
Annual California Beach Dive Photo Competition 2008
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On Saturday and Sunday, May 31 and June 1, 2008, SCUBA divers from Seattle to San Diego will converge on Monterey, California to compete for top prizes in a unique underwater photo competition
2008 San Diego UnderSea Film Exhibition
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Submit your films to the San Diego UnderSea Film Exhibition, And Make a Difference
Scripps Scientists Peg Wind As The Force Behind Fish Booms And Busts
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Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have now shed light on the puzzling mid-20th century crash of the sardine fishery off California by proposing a plausible mechanism...
Join the Navy, Kill Some Whales
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With the official all-clear from President Bush, the U.S. Navy began underwater sonar training off the San Diego coast this week
Worldus First Sustainable Tuna Fishery Certified In US
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The worldus first certified sustainable tuna fishery was announced today, a move that could help save one of the worldus most valuable fish u" and the fishing industry that relies on it u" from...
Woods Hole Partners Awarded Ocean Observing Contract
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The Joint Oceanographic Institutions (JOI) has awarded a $97.7 million contract to an academic partnership led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), to support the development,...
How Theyure Made - Gates Underwater Housings
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Ever wonder what goes into manufacturing a Gates Underwater Video Housing? We did, so we took a trip to San Diego to answer that question for ourselves. Gates Underwater Products has long been...
Dipping A Toe Into Marine Biology, At A Summer Camp
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Seacamp San Diego offers year-round marine biology programs; during the winter, the offerings are geared toward science classes from around the country. In the summer, campers from 12 to 17 years...
Southern Ocean's Climate Effects Studied
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Florida State University has received a $2.6 million grant through the U.S. National Science Foundation to study the Southern Ocean's climate effects.
The project involving the ocean that...
Predator Is Prey: Sharks Killed For Fins
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Sharks get a bad rap in the media, often portrayed as bloodthirsty, man-eating monsters. But there's a profound change going on in the world's oceans, as sharks go from predator to prey.
It's...
Five Dead Dolphins With Bullet Wounds Wash Ashore
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The first dead dolphin washed ashore with lacerations on its pectoral fin. The next showed up with a fatal bullet wound. Within a week, there were three more with bullets in their heads.
Federal...
Scientists Solve Genome Of Marine Organism Producing Promising Disease-Fighting Agents
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Scientists at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences have solved the genomic puzzle of an organism discovered in the oceans...
UC San Diego To Build Cyberinfrastructure For Ocean Observatories
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What we know about the world's oceans comes largely from ship-based scientists taking samples and making measurements at periodic intervals. Now researchers led by Scripps Institution of...
NCUPS 2007 California Beach Dive Photo Competition
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The Northern California Underwater Photographic Society (www.NCUPS.org), proudly announces the 2007 California Beach Dive Photo Competition, Memorial Day Weekend, Saturday and Sunday, May 26 and...
First Genome Comparison Of Plankton Species Yields Surprises
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An international team of scientists led by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and the Department of Energy's (DOE) Joint Genome Institute has peered into the genetic makeup of two...
Algae Killing Sealife In California
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A bloom of ocean algae that produces a toxic acid has sickened and killed hundreds of birds, sea lions and dolphins in California, environmentalists said.
Birds and animals have been washing up...
The 8th Annual San Diego UnderSea Film Exhibition
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This is a call for entries for the 8th Annual San Diego UnderSea Film Exhibition, scheduled for Friday and Saturday evenings, October 12th & 13th, 2007 at the Qualcomm Hall located at 5775...
Navy Shows Off Its Terror-Fighting Dolphins
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In a world of high-tech sensors and underwater robotics, Koa the bottlenose dolphin and others like her may still be the U.S. Navy's best line of defense against terrorists in scuba gear....
Iomega Power Pro Desktop Hard Drive
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New High Capacity Direct Attached Desktop Hard Drive with Hot-Swappable Drives Delivers Reliable, High Performance Storage For Small Businesses and Others
San Diego, March 29, 2007- Iomega...
'Elemental Fingerprinting' Traces Origins Of Marine Creatures
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Tracing the origins of marine animals can be extremely difficult, especially in the free-flowing, soup-like conditions of the ocean, but obtaining this information is vital not only for...
New System Developed By Scripps Researchers
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Tracing the origins of marine animals can be extremely difficult, especially in the free-flowing, soup-like conditions of the ocean, but obtaining this information is vital not only for...
Coast Guard Seizes Mexican Fishing Boat
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The U.S. Coast Guard seized a Mexican fishing boat carrying tons of shark and an undisclosed number of shark fins after the vessel was spotted Sunday allegedly poaching 11 miles inside U.S....
Mexico Passes Shark Finning Ban
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In a surprising move, the Mexican government has recently published sweeping new regulations and protections for sharks, including a shark finning ban, an extension of the moratorium on new...
Huge 'Ocean' Discovered Inside Earth
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Scientists scanning the deep interior of Earth have found evidence of a vast water reservoir beneath eastern Asia that is at least the volume of the Arctic Ocean.
The discovery marks the first...
Scripps Oceanography Research Studies Shed New Light On Blue Whales And Their Calls
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Using a variety of new approaches, scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego are forging a new understanding of the largest mammals on Earth. In one recently published study...
US Navy May Deploy Anti-terrorism Dolphins
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Dozens of dolphins and sea lions trained to detect and apprehend waterborne attackers could be sent to patrol a military base in Washington state, US Navy said Monday. In a notice published in this...
Model Shows Big Body Of Water In Earth's Mantle
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A seismologist at Washington University in St. Louis has made the first 3-D model of seismic wave damping - diminishing - deep in the Earth's mantle and has revealed the existence of an underground...
San Diego Underwater Film Exhibit
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Creatures of the deep have long been a subject of mystery and curiosity. Some local photographers sought out to capture a glimpse of life beneath the ocean's surface.
Photographers got some of...
Photobeat's Trip Report From Wetpixel Guadalupe Trip
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This was my first Dive trip in a long, time. I always wanted to see the White Sharks and when I first heard about the expedition by email from Norbert Wu including Eric on the trip I thought it was...
Sea Streaming - The Coral Reef Multimedia Project
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San Diego State has teamed with a local multimedia company in an interdisciplinary effort to illustrate and explain basic biological principles specific to coral reef science...
Deep-Sea Fish Populations Boom Over The Last 15 Years
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The largest habitats on Earth are located in the vast, dark plains at the bottom of the ocean. Yet because of their remoteness, many aspects of this mostly unexplored world remain mysterious.
New...
Study Of 2004 Tsunami Disaster Forces Rethinking Of Theory Of Massive Earthquakes
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The Sumatra-Andaman earthquake of December 26, 2004, was one of the worst natural disasters in recent memory, mostly due to the devastating tsunami that followed it. A group of geologists,...
San Diego Shark Population Takes A Dive
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Welcome to my paradise - diving with sharks. While some people hope they never have to see a shark, others are worried that they're not seeing enough.
The best chance to see a shark may be...
Giant Squid Ecotourism Trips Draw NCUPS Divers To Mexico's Sea Of Cortez
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The Northern California Underwater Photographic Society (NCUPS), is proud to present a very special seminar, "Dancing with the Demons," a 90-minute presentation about scuba diving with the Giant...
Global Warming Can Trigger Extreme Ocean, Climate Changes, Scripps-led Study Reveals
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Scientists use deep ocean historical records to find an abrupt ocean circulation reversal caused by greenhouse gas warming.
New research produced by scientists at Scripps Institution of...
Scripps Researchers Rediscover Elusive Site Of Exploding Volcanic Rocks
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Scientists aboard the Scripps research vessel Roger Revelle this week solved a 45-year-old geological mystery.
In 1960, Scripps oceanographer Dale Krause reported the discovery of extraordinary...
Scripps Oceanography Marine Ecologist To Receive Prestigious Diving Award
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Paul Dayton, professor of oceanography at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, has been selected as winner of the 2004 NOGI Award, science category, by the...
Satellite Reveals Secrets Of Bermuda's Deep-diving Dolphins In Groundbreaking Study
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Three wild dolphins living in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Bermuda are surprising scientists in San Diego and a worldwide audience following the dolphins' daily swims and dives via the...
Research Shows Overfishing Of Sharks Key Factor In Coral Reef Decline
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Unprecedented study describes sources contributing to decline of Caribbean reefs.
Their position at the pinnacle of the marine food chain is legendary.
Now, understanding sharks and their...
San Diego Undersea Film Exhibition
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This is the 9th Annual San Diego UnderSea Film Exhibition, scheduled for Friday and Saturday evenings, August 22nd & 23rd, 2008, at the beautiful Qualcomm Hall in San Diego, California.
Here...
California Beach Dive Photo Competition 2008
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On Saturday and Sunday, May 31 and June 1, 2008, SCUBA divers from Seattle to San Diego will converge on Monterey, California to compete for top prizes in one of the most unique underwater photo...
The 7th Annual San Diego UnderSea Film Exhibition
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The San Diego UnderSea Film Exhibition (UFEX) had its debut in 2000 with a night of underwater digital films presented at the Otto Center of the San Diego Zoo in Balboa Park.
Initiated in...
40th Annual San Diego Underwater Photographic Society Film Festival
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The San Diego Underwater Photographic Society (SDUPS) is proud to announce that its 40th Annual Film Festival will be held April 25, 2009 in San Diego, CA.
This year's film festival will feature...
SCUBA Show 2010
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SCUBA Show 2010 will take place in Long Beach, California on May 15th and 16th. SCUBA Show 2009 had an attendance of 10,202 and the SCUBA Show has consistently had attendance of over 10,000 for...
San Diego Undersea Film Exhibition
MONTHLY CONTESTS
This is the 9th Annual San Diego UnderSea Film Exhibition, scheduled for Friday and Saturday evenings, August 22nd & 23rd, 2008, at the beautiful Qualcomm Hall in San Diego, California.
Here...
California Beach Dive Photo Competition 2008
MONTHLY CONTESTS
On Saturday and Sunday, May 31 and June 1, 2008, SCUBA divers from Seattle to San Diego will converge on Monterey, California to compete for top prizes in one of the most unique underwater photo...
The 7th Annual San Diego UnderSea Film Exhibition
MONTHLY CONTESTS
The San Diego UnderSea Film Exhibition (UFEX) had its debut in 2000 with a night of underwater digital films presented at the Otto Center of the San Diego Zoo in Balboa Park.
Initiated in...
40th Annual San Diego Underwater Photographic Society Film Festival
MONTHLY CONTESTS
The San Diego Underwater Photographic Society (SDUPS) is proud to announce that its 40th Annual Film Festival will be held April 25, 2009 in San Diego, CA.
This year's film festival will feature...
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