Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Ellen Browning Scripps Memorial Pier
Former name	Marine Biological Association of San Diego Scripps Institution for Biological Research[1]
Established	1903; 123 years ago (1903)
Research type	Public
Field of research	Oceanography
Director	Meenakshi Wadhwa
Faculty	415[2]
Staff	800[2]
Students	350Postgraduates[2]
Location	San Diego,California,United States of America 32°51′56″N117°15′13″W / 32.865437°N 117.253626°W /32.865437; -117.253626
Affiliations	University of California, San Diego
Website	scripps.ucsd.edu

TheScripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) is the center foroceanography andearth science at theUniversity of California, San Diego. Its main campus is located inLa Jolla, with additional facilities inPoint Loma.

Founded in 1903 and incorporated into theUniversity of California system in 1912, the institution has since broadened its research focus to encompass the physics, chemistry, geology, biology, and climate of the Earth. The institution awards theNierenberg Prize annually to recognize researchers with exceptional contributions to science in public interest.^[3]

Scripps Institution of Oceanography can trace its beginnings back toWilliam Ritter, abiologist originally fromWisconsin. In 1891, Ritter was offered a job teaching biology at theUniversity of California, Berkeley and marriedMary Bennett.^[4] Their honeymoon and subsequent biological studies took them toSan Diego, where Ritter met a local physician and naturalist,Fred Baker, who would later encourage him to build a marine biological laboratory in San Diego.^[5][6]

Ritter searched for eleven years for an appropriate place for a permanent marine biological laboratory. He spent summers at various places along the coast with students. His goal was frustrated by lack of money and lack of an appropriate place.^[6] During this time, research was being conducted at the boathouse ofHotel del Coronado onSan Diego Bay.

In 1903, Ritter was introduced to newspaper magnateE. W. Scripps. Together with Scripps' half-sisterEllen Browning Scripps and Baker, they formed theMarine Biological Association of San Diego with Ritter as the Scientific Director.^[8] They fully funded the institution for its first decade. E. W. Scripps gave the biological association the use of his yacht, theLoma, in 1904 and served as the first research vessel in the history of the institution. In 1905, they moved to a small laboratory inLa Jolla Cove until they arranged for the purchase of a 170-acre (0.69 km²) site in La Jolla, north of San Diego. The land was purchased for $1,000 at apublic auction from the city of San Diego (the same site where the SIO main campus is today).^[4] However, construction cost estimates for a permanent building were around $50,000. Funding was secured through E. W. and E. B. Scripps, and the first permanent building (today known as theOld Scripps Building) was constructed in 1910.^[9]

The Marine Biological Association's first seafaring vessel, theLoma, would run aground inPoint Loma in 1906 and prompted the search for a new one. With funds secured from Ellen Browning Scripps, the association was able to have a ship built by Lawrence Jensen strictly for oceanographic research - among the first for an American nongovernmental institution.^[10] The new vessel was acquired on April 21st, 1907 and was named theAlexander Agassiz after the Harvard biologist who had visited in 1905. The 85-footAlexander Agassiz, a sailing vessel with twin gasoline engines, served the institution for ten years.^[11]

In 1912, the Biological Association became incorporated into theUniversity of California and was renamed theScripps Institution for Biological Research.^[12]

The first iteration of Scripps Pier, along with other buildings, was approved for construction in 1913, but was only completed in 1916 due to delays related toWorld War I. In 1915, the first building devoted solely to an aquarium was built on the Scripps campus. The small, wooden structure contained 19 tanks ranging in size from 96 to 228 U.S. gallons (360 to 860 L). The oceanographic museum was located in a nearby building. Since the pier was completed in 1916, measurements have been taken daily.^[13] The modern Scripps Pier was built as a replacement for the 1916 structure in 1988.^[14]

The institution's name changed toScripps Institution of Oceanography (often shortened to just SIO) in October of 1925 to recognize the growing faculty's widened range of studies.^[12]

Easter Ellen Cupp would be the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in oceanography from SIO in 1934, studyingdiatoms underWynfred Allen.^[15][16] She would stay with Scripps until 1939.

In 1935, SIO directorT. Wayland Vaughan was the first Scripps member to be awarded theAlexander Agassiz Medal by theNational Academy of Sciences.^[17]Harald Sverdrup would be awarded the medal 3 years later, beginning a long history of Scripps oceanographers being awarded the prize (Johnson in 1959, Revelle in 1963, and many more).

In November, 1936, the research vesselScripps was sunk when there was an explosion in the galley, killing the cook and injuring the captain.^[18] The sinking of theScripps left SIO without a research vessel, so SIO director Sverdrup approached the UC presidentRobert Gordon Sproul and Bob Scripps (son of E.W and Ellen) to acquire a new one.^[6] They found Bob's pleasure yacht,Novia Del Mar, ill-fitting for the science roles performed by theScripps, and purchased a different yacht from actorLewis Stone in April 1937. TheSerena was rechristenedE. W. Scripps and was presented to SIO in December 1937. TheE. W. Scripps would be quintessential for Sverdrup to build datasets supporting simple theories of ocean circulation, including theSverdrup balance.^[19]

Harald Sverdrup andWalter Munk, oceanographers tasked with predicting surf conditions for allied amphibious landings.

When World War II broke out Scripps created theUniversity of California Division of War Research (UCDWR) in Point Loma, focusing on acoustics and waves to support the US Navy.^[20][21] Collaborative research between the UCDWR and the Navy led to the discovery of thedeep scattering layer, a region from 300 - 500 m deep filled with organisms.^[22] The UCDWR would continue to research sound beacons andsonar until being absorbed into theNavy Electronics Laboratory and Scripps Marine Physical Laboratory between 1945 and 1948.^[20]

WithHarald Sverdrup as the SIO director, recent graduate studentWalter Munk was recalled from the army and together they were tasked with aidingAllied amphibious landings off the coast of Africa.^[23] The goal was to predict coastal surf andsea state for Allied landings in Africa, though their model was also applied to theAllied landings in Normandy,Sicily, andin the Pacific.^[24] SIO's UCDWR would train over 200 American and British military officers on swell forecasting techniques throughout the war.^[25] Though Sverdrup was initially intending on holding the position of SIO director for only 3 years until 1939,Nazi occupation of Norway prolonged his assumption of the role until 1948.^[22][26] Though Sverdrup's family became US citizens during the war, he struggled with Navy clearance which gave him an awkward relationship to the projects he was overseeing.^[25]

Wartime changed the funding dynamic for Scripps. Prior to the war, the only federal support for SIO came from the Navy seeking to protect the hulls of their ships.^[27] Threatened byGerman submarines, concepts within physical oceanography were researched forsubmarine warfare.^[25] By summer 1942,Roger Revelle was appointed as a Navy liaison for oceanography and the sonar head of the Navy Bureau of Ships. UCDWR research led to rapid development ofbathythermographs, as well as the understanding of thethermocline andbenthic sediments in the context of underwater warfare.^[27] Research onbiofouling organisms were led by Dennis Fox and Claude ZoBell, with the goal to develop biological deterrents for seaplanes and vessels.

It was during 1942 that Sverdrup, along withMartin Johnson and Richard Fleming, completed the first comprehensive textbook of oceanography,The Oceans.^[26] The textbook was considered a first of its kind and of such military importance that it was forbidden from distribution outside of the United States.

SIO's firstscientific diver was biologist Cheng Kwai Tseng, who used equipment to collect algae off the coast of San Diego in 1944.^[28][29] Tseng took red algae samples ofGelidium cartilagineum and cultured them to reduce the US dependence on Japaneseagar, which was important to hospitals at the time.^[25]

Following the war,Roger Revelle continued to act as a liaison for oceanographers and was consulted duringOperation Crossroads in 1945.^[27] He noted significant difficulties during the project, stemming from the difficulty of civilian research to access naval research vessels and naval bureaucracy. To remedy this, Revelle championed joint research of the newly-establishedOffice of Naval Research (ONR), theUS Hydrographic Office, and Navy Bureau of Ships and Scripps was receiving around $900,000 annually from federal funding.^[27]

The Navy bestowed the operation of a number of vessels to SIO ushering in a "Golden Age" of oceanographic research and discoveries. Between 1947 and 1949 three post-war vessels were acquired and modified for scientific research: TheCrest,Paolina-T, andHorizon.^[30][31] These vessels, combined with the overlap of expertise from the ONR in 1946, provided additional resources for ocean exploration.^[32] The three new vessels were put to work on the new Marine Life Research Program in 1950 (nowCalCOFI), which sought to investigate the collapse of the California sardine population. In doing so, approximately 670,000 square miles (1,700,000 km²) of ocean would need to be surveyed.

WhenAqua-Lung was made available in the US in 1948,UCLA graduates Conrad Limbaugh andAndy Rechnitzer were able to convince Boyd W. Walker, their marine biology advisor at the time, to purchase one. Together, they introduced the Aqua-Lung to SIO in 1950 (with Limbaugh studying under Carl Hubbs) and began the Scripps Diving Program.^[29][33] Roger Revelle took over the director role at SIO in 1951 from Carl Eckart and, following a diving fatality at La Jolla in 1950, requested that Limbaugh develop ascuba training program for SIO, which debuted in 1951 and was heavily influenced by practices of the U.S. Navy'sUnderwater Demolition Team.^[10] It was also during this time thatHugh Bradner, a physicist atUC Berkeley, became an advisor at SIO and developed thewetsuit in 1952. Bradner would go on to become a professor at SIO's Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics in 1961.^[29] The SIO Diving Program would continue to innovate and expand up to more than 160 affiliated divers in 2015.^[34]

The Vaughan Aquarium-Museum opened at the University's Charter Day in March 1951 to replace the prior aquarium, which had been in a consistent state of disrepair since at least 1925.^[10] Named to honor former institution director T. Wayland Vaughan, museum curator Percy S. Barnhart planned a replacement up until his retirement in 1946, passing the project along to Sam Hinton. Hinton would go on to collect specimens aboard theE. W. Scripps until the building was completed and occupied in 1950. While nearly three times the size of the previous aquarium, the building also housed the director's offices on the second floor and the preserved specimens in the basement. The seawater supply from Scripps Pier was renovated in 1964 to increase capacity and improvefiltration.

In 1959, an additional administration building was constructed next to the original 1910 building, named the "New Scripps" building. Campus construction expanded with the completion of the Sumner Auditorium and Sverdrup Hall in 1960.^[30]

Scripps Institution of Oceanography director Revelle spearheaded the formation of the University of California, San Diego in 1960 on a bluff overlooking the Scripps Institution, with SIO acting as the nucleus.^[6][35] It was during the 1960s that SIO led the development of theDeep-Tow system, with oceanographer Fred Spiess as the lead of the Marine Physical Laboratory.^[10] The purpose was to map the oceans, most notably being used inProject FAMOUS between 1971 and 1974.

In 1965, Scripps began leasing 6 acres (2.4 ha) of land in Point Loma to tie up research vessels, including theRPFlip (launched in 1962), from the US Navy.^[10] The navy gave this land to Scripps in 1975 and the facility was named the Nimitz Marine Facility (or MarFac) afterChester Nimitz.

Also in 1965, Scripps assisted the Navy with theSEALAB project, where divers dwelled in a submersible habitat at 205 ft (62 m) in the nearbyScripps Canyon for 15 days at a time.^[36][37][38]

In 1968, Scripps researcherHarmon Craig met withHenry Stommel andWallace Broecker to discuss one of the first geochemical research programs, which would eventually becomeGEOSECS.^[39] The Scripps-directed GEOSECS program would go on to become a major domestic and international collaborative research effort from 1972-1980, laying the groundwork for numerous repeat hydrography programs to follow.

On October 25, 1973,California Sea Grant became a college (National Sea Grant College Program) administered by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at theUniversity of California, San Diego.^[40][41]

From March to May of 1979, SIO directed theRISE project and oversaw the 1979 discovery of black smokerhydrothermal vents at theEast Pacific Rise.^[42]

TheOld Scripps Building, designed byIrving Gill, was declared aNational Historic Landmark in 1982.^[9][43] ArchitectBarton Myers designed the current Scripps Building for the Institution of Oceanography in 1998.

In 1998, Scripps directorCharles Kennel and former directorWilliam Nierenberg approachedJesse Ausubel to discuss the formation and funding for an international consortium of oceanographic institutions.^[44] Together withJohn Shepherd, a proposal was made for thePartnership for Observation of the Global Ocean (or POGO), which held its first meeting in 1999 in Paris.

In 2007, the family and wife of late Roger Revelle donated 2.5 million dollars toward the Roger Revelle Chairendowed position,^[45] whichShang-Ping Xie now holds.

In 2014, SIO received a grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to test the use of biofuels on one of its ships, theRobert Gordon Sproul.^[46] The vessel operated from September 2014 to December 2015 on 100% biofuels which reducednitrous oxide emissions, but increased particle emissions. However, the fuel source provided a proof of concept that research operations could be completed using biofuels rather than conventional diesel.

Also, 2014 was the first year of cruises for the internationalGO-SHIP program, a repeat hydrography program focusing on straight transects across major ocean basins and a follow-up to theWorld Ocean Circulation Experiment, which ran until 2002.^[47] Scripps, along with NOAA as the sole American members of the science committee, has overseen and advised many expeditions to contribute to the global data set.^[48][49]

In 2019, Scripps received $1.2 million of philanthropic funding for a 42-foot (13 m) research vessel, named afterJohn Beyster and his wife Betty.^[50] Though the vessel was secured in spring of 2019, plans for the vessel's acquisition began in 2017.^[51]

From January to May of 2019, SIO directed a study atImperial Beach to collect samples of sewage pollution from theTijuana River and found elevated levels of harmful bacteria and aerosols.^[52][53] In 2024, Scripps was added to a task force including researchers fromSan Diego State University and regional doctors to better understand health impacts from the pollution.^[54] While collecting samples later in 2024, the task force had to evacuate the area due to elevated levels of toxic gases.^[55]

A campus report was published in 2022 describing campus lab, office, and storage spaces and found that women make up 26% of research scientists at SIO, yet occupy 17% of the space.^[56][57] The report highlighted thatemeritus faculty on campus are 86% male and hold nearly 25% of all space at SIO.

In May 2023, the Scripps campus in La Jolla opened the Ted and Jean Scripps Marine Conservation and Technology Facility.^[58][59] The building required the razing of three older buildings originally constructed in 1963 and reinforcing of the nearby hillside in 2014.^[60] A month later, the building was vandalized in a protest against low graduate student wages. In June 2023, two SIO students and one recent graduate were arrested at their homes byUniversity of California Police and held in custody overnight.^[61] The University alleged $12,000 in damages related to this incident.^[62] Union leadership inUAW 2865 and 5810, the local union chapters representing the arrested workers, accuse the University of California of retaliation^[63] and reneging on the contracts signed at the conclusion of the2022 UC academic workers' strike.^[64] On July 10, 2023, hundreds of protesters gathered at San Diego's Central Courthouse to protest the arrests, however in a written statement the San Diego District Attorney's office said the arraignment would not move forward because the case had not been submitted to its office for review.^[65][66] However, university officials have up to three years to file charges. On July 18, 2023, UCPD obtained a warrant and searched a fourth student's house for evidence of chalk or union affiliation in relation to the May 30 incident.^[67]

The SIO main campus is located inLa Jolla, situated betweenLa Jolla Shores andBlack's Beach. La Jolla Shores Drive provides access to greater La Jolla to the south, while continuing north through campus to the main UC San Diego campus.

Mass transit service to the main campus is handled byMTS line 30 (coming every 15 minutes) and UC San Diego's SIO bus route (every 10 minutes). Route 30 has stops exclusively on La Jolla Shores Drive, heading north toUTC Transit Center and south toOld Town Transit Center.^[68] The SIO route offers more comprehensive coverage of campus grounds, starting in Pawka Green, then La Jolla Shores Drive, Shellback Way, Birch Aquarium, and then north to Gilman Transit Center at UCSD's main campus.^[69]

Three sites on campus (the Seaside Forum, the Martin Johnson House, and Birch Aquarium) are available to the general public for rental.^[70]

Biological Grade is the street running North to South parallel to La Jolla Shores drive, connecting a number of laboratories, libraries, and research halls. It was built between 1910 and 1912 with the original Old Scripps Building and was part of the main highway between San Diego and Los Angeles.^[73] As the campus grew, La Jolla Shores Drive was constructed to reroute through traffic for automobiles. Biological Grade connects to Shellback Way on the other side of La Jolla Shores Drive via the La Jolla Shores Pedestrian Bridge (also known as Scripps Crossing), erected in 1993.

The Scripps Coastal Meander trail (part of theCalifornia Coastal Trail) starts at the northern end of Biological Grade and connects to other trails, eventually terminating at Black's Beach.^[74]

South of Biological Grade is the Pawka Green, named after Steven Pawka. The bordering Naga Way separates the labs from Biological Grade from the halls around Pawka Green, which are more oriented towards administration and instruction. The Naga Way street is named after the Naga Expedition, which took place in 1959 studying the Gulf of Thailand and South China Sea.^[73]

Shellback Way connects a series of halls and labs on the east side of La Jolla Shores Drive, with greater emphasis on atmospheric science and fisheries. It connects to Biological Grade via the La Jolla Shores Pedestrian Bridge. Shellback Way is named after the Shellback Expedition which studied the deep Pacific off the coast of Peru, running from May to August 1952.^[73]

Downwind Way connects La Jolla Shores Drive to Expedition Way, providing access to the rest of UCSD. This section of campus includes campus storage and facilities, Birch Aquarium, and Deep Sea Drilling Program. It is named after the first of threeInternational Geophisical Year cruises, taking place from October 1957 to February 1958.^[73]

The main campus in La Jolla is situated next to theSan Diego-Scripps Coastal Marine Conservation Area as well asTorrey Pines State Natural Reserve.^[84] The coastalchaparralbiome has many plants also seen in the Torrey Pines reserve, such aslemonade berry,wild cucumber,coast spice bush,California sunflower,California buckwheat, andbladderpod.

Seabirds are a common sight near the campus, particularlyseagulls,pelicans,plovers,egrets, andosprey.Peregrine falcons are also known to nest in the bluffs at the north end of campus.^[84]

Marine life from La Jolla Shores to Black's Beach can be seen very shallow, makingsnorkeling a popular activity. Marine organisms includeleopard sharks,Garibaldi,shovelnose guitarfish,round stingrays, andthornback rays.^[84] Due to the high concentration of stingrays, locals practice the "stingray shuffle" to help avoidbeing stung.^[85][86]

Connecting to La Jolla Canyon,Scripps Canyon is a popular spot for divers and marine research. Common fish within the canyon are species ofpoacher,sole,rockfish, andlizardfish.^[87]

The Nimitz Marine Facility is the home port of all SIO research vessels and is accessible by land via Rosecrans Street in Point Loma. The facility is serviced hourly by bus route 84 of the San Diego MTS, running from the Navy Base toShelter Island andCabrillo National Monument.^[88]

The facility borders thePoint Loma Navy Base, operated by theNIWC. As of 2008, aTWIC card is required for access to the waterfront at MarFac as required by theUnited States Coast Guard.^[89]

Buildings at the Nimitz Marine Facility are numbered in increasing order from the waterfront approaching Rosecrans Street.

The institution's research programs encompass biological, physical, chemical, geological, and geophysical studies of the oceans and land. Scripps also studies the interaction of the oceans with both the atmospheric climate and environmental concerns onterra firma. Related to this research, Scripps offers undergraduate and graduate degrees.^[91]

Today, the Scripps staff of 1,300 includes approximately 235 faculty, 180 other scientists and some 350graduate students, with an annual budget of more than $281 million.^[92] The institution operates a fleet of fouroceanographicresearch vessels.^[93]

Scripps follows a number of interdisciplinary research themes:^[94]

• Climate change impacts and adaption
• Resilience to hazards
• Human health and the oceans
• Innovative technology
• Polar science
• Biodiversity and conservation
• National security

TheCalifornia Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) program, established in 1949, is an ongoing partnership between SIO,NOAA Fisheries, and theCalifornia Department of Fish and Wildlife to study sardine population collapse and the marine environment off the coast of Southern California.^[95] Data are collected on routine research cruises and are able to be compared over many decades in a large service area.^[96]

TheKeeling Curve is the longest-runningtime series of atmospheric CO₂, beginning in 1958.^[97][98] Spearheaded byCharles David Keeling, SIO established a research center inMauna Loa,Hawaii to record atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. Since then, SIO researchers have expanded the dataset into numerous other sampling locations and analytical parameters to monitorclimate change.^[99]

TheArgo program is an international effort to survey ocean temperature, salinity, and currents. The program was developed in the late 1990s and chaired by SIO'sDean Roemmich and SIO researchers helped design the SOLO and SOLO-II float designs.^[100][101] SIO is also involved in Argo-related programs, such as GO-BGC (biogeochemical) andSOCCOM, and hosts Argo data on the Argo Global Marine Atlas.

SIO maintains a large collection ofmarine andbenthic organism collections, tracing back to William Ritter's samples from 1902. WhenichthyologistCarl Hubbs arrived at SIO in 1944, the collections grew rapidly and expanded by around 9,000 samples in 2014 when SIO inherited collections fromUCLA's Department of Ecology.^{[102][103][104]} SIO also has a geological collection of thousands ofocean cores, sea dredge hauls,microfossil slides, and rock samples.^[105]

Collection samples are commonly used for instruction at SIO and for public outreach atBirch Aquarium.

Scripps Oceanography is divided into three research sections, each with its own subdivisions:^[106]

• Biology
  • Center for Marine Biotechnology & Biomedicine (CMBB)
  • Integrative Oceanography Division (IOD)
  • Marine Biology Research Division (MBRD)
• Earth
  • Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP)
  • Geosciences Research Division (GRD)
• Oceans & Atmosphere
  • Climate, Atmospheric Science & Physical Oceanography (CASPO)
  • Marine Physical Laboratory (MPL)

Meenakshi Wadhwa took office as the director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Vice Chancellor for Marine Sciences, and Dean of the Graduate School of Marine Sciences on October 1, 2025.

The following persons served as director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography:^[107]

No.	Image	Director	Term start	Term end	Ref.
1		William E. Ritter	1912	1923
2		Thomas W. Vaughan	1923	1936
3		Harald U. Sverdrup	1936	1948
4		Carl Eckart	1948	1950
5		Roger Revelle	1951	1964
6		Fred N. Speiss	1964	1965
7		William A. Nierenberg	1965	1986
8		Edward A. Frieman	July 1, 1986	August 31, 1996	[108][109]
–		Wolfgang H. Berger	September 1, 1996	January 31, 1998	[110]
9		Charles F. Kennel	February 1, 1998	September 11, 2006	[111][112]
10		Tony Haymet	September 12, 2006	September 30, 2012	[113][114]
–		Catherine Constable	October 1, 2012	September 30, 2013	[115]
11		Margaret Leinen	October 1, 2013	present	[116][117]

Scripps owns and operates severalresearch vessels and platforms:^{[25][118][119][120]}

• RVRoger Revelle
• RVSally Ride
• RVRobert Gordon Sproul
• RVBob and Betty Beyster

Current and previous vessels larger than 50 ft (15 m)

In 2021, Scripps was awarded $35 million for the development of a new coastal research vessel as a replacement for the RVRobert Gordon Sproul, in service since 1984.^[121] The proposed vessel would be 125 feet long and take 3 years to build, becoming the first hybrid-hydrogen research vessel in theUNOLS fleet and aiding in the University of California's Carbon Neutrality Initiative. Scripps choseSeattle-based architect Glosten as the ship's designer, having work experience from numerous other SIO vessels.^[122][123] It is expected that the research vessel will operate on hydrogen power for 75% of its operations.

Birch Aquarium, the public exploration center for the institution, features a Hall of Fishes with more than 60 tanks of Pacific fishes and invertebrates from the cold waters of the Pacific Northwest to the tropical waters of Mexico and the IndoPacific, a 13,000-gallon local shark and ray exhibit, interactive tide pools, and interactive science exhibits.^[124] In 2022, the aquarium opened a new exhibit forblue penguins.^[125]

SIO confers a number of awards for scientific advancement or betterment of society.

In 2014, the institution and itsKeeling Curve measurement of atmospheric carbon dioxide levels were featured as a plot point in an episode of HBO'sThe Newsroom.^[138]

In 2008, Scripps Institution of Oceanography was the subject of a category on the TV game showJeopardy!.^[139]

The Scripps Institution of Oceanography is frequently mentioned or used as a setting in fiction novels.^[140] The name is often abbreviated or fictionalized, borrowing from other identifying personalities or sights in La Jolla.

• Array Network Facility
• RISE project
• Scripps Research, a neighboring, but completely independent medical research institute
• Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, a private, non-profit oceanographic research center inMoss Landing, California
• Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, a multi-campus marine research consortium of theCalifornia State University System
• Hopkins Marine Station, a similar research facility run byStanford University inMonterey, California
• Hatfield Marine Science Center, a similar research facility associated with theOregon State University and located inNewport, Oregon
• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, a similar research facility located inWoods Hole, Massachusetts

• Scripps Institution of Oceanography; First Fifty Years Helen Raitt and Beatrice Moulton. Los Angeles : W. Ritchie Press, 1967.
• Scripps Institution of Oceanography : Probing the Oceans, 1936 to 1976 Elizabeth Noble Shor. San Diego, Calif. : Tofua Press, 1978.
• The Keeling Curve Turns 50

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