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Scripps Researcher in Antarctica Fights Time, the Elements to Reach Planet’s Oldest Ice

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Times of San Diego (November 26th 2019)

Polar Center researcher Jeff Severinghaus and colleagues recently traveled to Antarctica to sample the oldest ice on the continent. With an improved drilling system, the team are hoping to acquire ice core climate records stretching further back than ever before.

A Scientist’s Life: Maria Vernet

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Scripps News (May 11th 2017)

Maria Vernet is an emeritus researcher in the Integrative Oceanography Division at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the UC San Diego. She earned a master’s degree in biological oceanography from the University of Washington in 1981 and a PhD in biological oceanography from the University of Washington in 1983. A phytoplankton ecologist, she considers long-term changes in marine ecosystems with a special emphasis on life in polar regions.