Rasmus Swalethorpe, CalCOFI Director of Ship Operations and CCE Associate, was interviewed recently by the Manhattan Beach (MB) News, regarding ocean sampling of various wildfire
Author: Robin Westlake Storey
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CCE’s Lead PI, Katherine Barbeau, will be one of four scientists leading a Special Session at the 2025 ASLO meetings, to be held in Charlotte,
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CCE scientists Mark Ohman and Sven Gastauer collaborated with Claudine Arendt, a creative visionary artist, on two very unique art exhibitions currently at UCSD. They
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CCE is now accepting applications for our summer REU program at SIO (until 31 Jan. 2025), a 10-12 week full-time research experience for undergraduates to
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Shailja Gangrade (P. Franks group) will defend her doctoral dissertation entitled, “Plankton patchiness at mesoscale fronts and filaments: drivers, dynamics, and implications in the California Current System”
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On 14 Oct 2024, CCE held a Forum with about 60 participants attending in-person and via Zoom. Recent CCE updates (2025 Process cruise, midterm review,
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Our seven REUs presented their summer research on 12 Sept., with pre-recorded and live presentations. We were all amazed by what they accomplished over 10-12
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Grace Cawley, a 4th year Grad student, tells us all about her zooplankton community research in the CCE, and how much she loves going to
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PhD student Dante Capone, a 2024 LTER writing fellow, recently published a piece on CCE’s P2402 science and activities, which you can read all about
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Seven undergraduates joined our CCE team late June to conduct summer research in various labs at SIO. A big welcome to (L to R in