Friends & Supporters
Private donations help keep Scripps Institution of Oceanography
at the leading edge of ocean and earth
sciences. Your gift ensures that Scripps will continue to
make important global scientific discoveries in areas such as
climate change, conservation, and the environment — all for the benefit of society.
Warming World in Range of Dangerous Consequences
Even if greenhouse gas emissions are fixed at 2005 levels, new analysis shows that irreversible warming will lead to biodiversity loss and substantial glacial melt
Generosity from Within
Devendra Lal first visited Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego as a post doc in 1958. Now, after nearly 50 years of contributing to basic research at Scripps, he's making a different kind of contribution to the institution a donation of $500,000.
Old Friends to the Rescue
The foundation that provided the original
pledge that made the Birch Aquarium at
Scripps a reality and two funds that have
supported Scripps Oceanography's aquarium
for decades have given new gifts to
modernize and restore aquarium components.