SPOTTED: Leopard Sharks at Birch Aquarium at Scripps
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Published: 22 June 2012
Birch Aquarium celebrates leopard sharks with July events, including dive shows, lectures, snorkel tours, and Q&As with shark scientist Andy Nosal, who studies their behavior and conservation in La Jolla Shores.
Keywords: leopard sharks, Birch Aquarium, Andy Nosal, La Jolla, shark conservation, marine biology, Scripps
From the Field: Thar She Blows!
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Published: 9 July 2012
Scripps Ph.D. student Valeria Sahakian helped locate a sunken fin whale off La Jolla using geophysical tools, enabling long-term study of whale decomposition and its link to seep ecosystems near San Diego.
Keywords: fin whale, San Diego seeps, Scripps, geophysics, whale fall, deep-sea ecosystem, multibeam sonar
Research Highlight: Not of this World
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Published: 25 July 2012
Scripps researcher James Day found that precious metals like platinum arrived on Earth via asteroid collisions just 2–3 million years after the solar system formed, reshaping our understanding of planetary development.
Keywords: precious metals, asteroid impacts, platinum, Earth formation, Scripps, planetary cores, meteorites
