Scripps Oceanography gets share of California Energy Commission contract to simulate climate change
This figure shows projected changes in California’s average hottest day of the year by the end of this century (2070-2100) produced by researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla.
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The California Energy Commission has awarded a $1.5 million contract to three University of California campuses, including UC San Diego, that will work in tandem to better simulate climate change scenarios that can be used by utilities and others to anticipate the effects.
The contract, split among UCLA, UC Berkeley and UCSD’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, will be used to “provide what are called downscaled climate simulations over the state of California,” said Dan Cayan, a climate scientist at SIO and principal investigator for the project.
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Couples at local senior living facilities run the gamut from just-met to married for decades. Ahead of Valentine’s Day this weekend, the
La Jolla Light interviewed several paired retirees for their stories of first dates, shared hobbies and love.
Joe and Mary Ann Curray
Two days after Valentine’s Day, Joe and Mary Ann Curray, residents of the Chateau La Jolla retirement community, will celebrate 37 years of wedded bliss. Despite coming from different backgrounds, the two learned they had a lot in common when they met on a fundraising run for the 1984 Olympics and continued to find common ground throughout their marriage.
Farmers Want to Create San Diego s Carbon Dumps
The county committed to being carbon-neutral by 2035 but it will have to create many projects to capture carbon to hit that goal. Farmers could help – but only if the rules change to make it easier.
Bea Alvarez pierced the Pauma Valley earth with the metallic bit of her cylindrical soil tester.
She’s been tracking the amount of carbon her farm retains if she adds compost and rarely tills the land. Tilling exposes carbon from dead plants to oxygen in the air, creating carbon dioxide, which is the planet’s most troublesome climate-changing gas.
Weather check: Paul Crutzen
Paul Crutzen, Dutch Nobel prize-winning atmospheric chemist, at the University of Helsinki in May 2010. Credit: Teemu Rajala / Wikicommons
Paul Crutzen, Nobel laureate and one of the world’s most distinguished climate scientists, died on 28 January 2021, at a hospital in Mainz, Germany, following several years of illness. He was 87.
Crutzen shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Mario Molina and F. Sherwood Rowland, “for their work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone”, says the Nobel Prize organisation.
His death was announced by Martin Stratmann, president of the Max Planck Society, where Crutzen worked as director of the Atmospheric Chemistry Department, in Mainz, from 1980 to 2000.