2017

In a study published recently in the journal Coral Reefs, scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography created and analyzed detailed photomosaics of the coral reef at Palmyra Atoll in the [...]

Ocean explorers from around the world gathered at the UC San Diego Qualcomm Institute last month for a National Ocean Exploration Forum (NOEF) to discuss a challenging problem: how to make sense [...]

September 18, 2017. A team of archaeologists from the University of California San Diego and two leading Israeli universities has wrapped up a three-week expedition to document two major sites in [...]

San Diego, Calif., Monday, Sept. 11, 2017 — Cultural heritage around the globe is continually subject to a multitude of threats, from malicious acts during wartime to neglect, overexposure and [...]

A team of researchers from across UC San Diego is developing a new approach for detecting damage to buildings during earthquakes and other extreme events. UC San Diego researchers are using [...]

San Diego, July 27, 2017 — In a long feature article and companion video, CNN Travel has posted the feature story on “Charted Waters”. In it, writer Alexander Rosen and his [...]

San Diego, July 18, 2017 — Technology deployed by the Qualcomm Institute to create a 3D digital database of more than 100 shipwrecks surrounding Bermuda is the focus of a TV report by the BBC in [...]

San Diego, Calif., April 13, 2017 — Together with their colleagues, researchers from the University of California San Diego have announced new findings about a skeleton nicknamed “Naia,” the [...]

Together with their colleagues, researchers from the University of California San Diego have announced new findings about a skeleton nicknamed “Naia,” the earliest mostly complete human found so [...]

San Diego, January 19, 2017 — If the prospect of a mega-earthquake has you quaking — fear not, because UC San Diego engineers are making sure our world will withstand the rumble. And in addition [...]