Oceanography

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12 May 2008

LONG BEACH, CALIF. -- If Ray Bradbury is right, and books are people, then this huge brick building on Long Beach Boulevard is very crowded.

SD scientists say bacteria could be a red tide killer (San Diego Union-Tribune)

12 May 2008

SAN DIEGO – Scientists believe they've found a red tide killer. The Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego has discovered that RCA bacteria – a natural marine microbe – can attack and kill the single-cell plankton that produce red tide algae.

Climate scientist out to change the world (San Diego Union-Tribune)

11 May 2008

Veerabhadran Ramanathan tours the globe to conduct experiments and advise world leaders about climate change. He helped craft the United Nations' landmark report in 2007 on global warming, and his research at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla has been featured in major journals such as Nature.