The Giddings lab participated in an SIO wide outreach event to students from Upward Bound, a year-round comprehensive academic college preparation and retention program that serves students from North County High Schools. The students were incredibly engaged and excited to witness the gravity currents and play around with stratification! Isa, Angelica, and Maddie, seen in the picture had a great … Read More

Great update on our project posted on the USC Sea Grant website! Thanks to the USC Sea Grant for funding this work looking at El Niño impacts on lagoon circulation and how it serves as a window into future conditions.

Part of the team departed for the Seychelles on 28 May 2016 to recover and re-deploy moorings, carry-out a process-based focus study, and do outreach with the local community. You can follow their trip on our NASCar-SLOMO project website. From left to right, Hugo, Isa, Rich, and Geno.      

19 May 2016 Giddings and a few other scientists and policy specialists presented to community members at the City of Carlsbad Sea Level Rise Meeting. The City of Carlsbad hosted a panel discussion and community meeting about “The Future of Carlsbad’s Coast and Lagoons.” Video, photos, and information from the event can be found here.

On 18-20 May 2016, the Los Peñasquitos lagoon mouth was dredged open following nearly 2 months of continuous closure and upstream flooding. On 19 May 2016 water levels were low enough for us to recover the buried pressure sensor located just inside of the lagoon mouth. This pressure sensor has been measuring wave energy entering the lagoon throughout the El Niño … Read More

Now you can watch the lecture on El Niño and Our Urban Ocean by Sarah and Julie Thomas from SCCOOS at the Birch Aquarium’s Perspectives on Ocean Science Lecture Series.

SIO highlights all of the amazing El Niño work that has gone on during this 2015-2016 El Niño season in this article.

We recovered our gear from AHL this week! Rob and Maddie got to dive in the lagoon… visibility was less than an arm’s length! There was significant growth on the instruments but so far the data looks good.        

Join Astrid and many others as they highlight the various citizen science projects occurring in San Diego. This will be the inaugural Citizen Science Expo for San Diego! Astrid will highlight the Urban Tides Initiative and Stormphoto citizen science projects which the Giddings lab has participated in and her results from analyzing the efficacy of these programs as part of … Read More

The Tijuana River mouth closed last week in response to what we think are the combined effects of large waves throughout this El Niño season and potentially along-shore transport of sand from earlier beach nourishments. Our colleagues at the Tijuana National Estuarine Research Reserve have been monitoring the situation closely to better understand what is going on. See this news article about … Read More