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La Jolla High School students receive athletic awards Recent La Jolla High School graduate Rhys Bugelli has won the Matthew Abrams Memorial Award, which comes with his name on an award plaque hung at the Coggan Family Aquatic Complex and a $1,000 scholarship. The award was begun in 2019 by La Jollans Dave and Joyce Abrams as a way to memorialize their son Matthew Abrams, a 1999 LJHS graduate and MVP of its water polo team that year who died of cancer in 2018. Water polo was Matthew’s passion,...

In the Oceans, the Volume Is Rising as Never Before A new review of the scientific literature confirms that anthropogenic noise is becoming unbearable for undersea life. Credit...Jon Han Published Feb. 4, 2021Updated Feb. 8, 2021 Although clown fish are conceived on coral reefs, they spend the first part of their lives as larvae drifting in the open ocean. The fish are not yet orange, striped or even capable of swimming. They are still plankton, a term that comes from the Greek word for “wand...