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Scripps Launches Polar Center

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Scripps News (April 3rd, 2019)

The new Scripps Polar Center brings together scientists from disciplines that investigate everything from ocean physics to ice sheet and glacier dynamics to the ecology of the organisms that live at the poles—a cross-disciplinary approach to understand polar regions in all their complexity.

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.