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• Scripps Director Provides Key Scientific Perspective at Davos World Economic Forum
  

  Scripps Oceanography News -- February 5, 2010
  Fisheries, ocean acidification, and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch among issues presented by Tony Haymet at global gathering.
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• Community, Elected Leaders Think Big When It Comes to Resolutions
  San Diego Union-Tribune— January 6, 2010
  As we start the first full week of 2010, here’s how some local leaders are resolving to make San Diego County a better place to live.
  Tony Haymet, director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego: California’s continued leadership in business-oriented solutions to global warming, and the international perception of our leadership, will be great for our San Diego clean-tech businesses.
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• Scripps Looks to Fuel Its Future
  San Diego Union-Tribune — December 28, 2009
  Scripps Institution of Oceanography is better off than ever — if you’re just looking at grants, donations and other revenue. It collected nearly $165 million last year, the highest amount in its history. Beneath that success, this iconic unit of the University of California San Diego faces staggering challenges. “You have to be at the top of your game every year,” said Tony Haymet, the director of Scripps since 2006. “In Scripps’ case, that has led to a kind of Darwinian excellence. You either survive or die.”
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• Tony Haymet on the Power of Direct Action (Video)
  COP-15 Ocean-Climate Forum — December 14, 2009
  Watch an interview of Scripps Director Tony Haymet from the Ocean-Climate Forum, an interactive project launched in conjunction with Oceans Day, Dec. 14, 2009.
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• Scripps Science Delegation at Climate Change Conference (Radio)
  KPBS — December 14, 2009
  The climate summit in Copenhagen is of course, dealing with the global impact of climate change. But within the international political deal-making and major statements by world leaders, it's good to remember that California has a role and a stake in what will be become the Copenhagen Protocol. (Interview with Scripps Director Tony Haymet.)
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• UC San Diego Scientists Heading To Copenhagen (Radio)
  KPBS — November 30, 2009
  Scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego plan to present their latest research at the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit. Tony Haymet, director of Scripps, said, "We're going as a scientific resource. So we're going armed with papers that have already been published by Professor Ramanthan and Richard Somerville and our researchers who are studying ocean acidification."
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• Dr. Tony Haymet Joins the 7.30 Report (Video)
  7.30 Report, Australian Broadcasting Corporation —
  November 26, 2009
  The highly-respected American-based Australian scientist Dr. Tony Haymet has close links to the internal Obama dialogue, and from his post as director of the prestigious Scripps Institution of Oceanography and as vice chancellor of marine sciences at UC San Diego, he also works closely with leading Chinese climate scientists. (To watch video click on the Windows media option suitable for your computer.) More
  
  
• LA Aims to be Coal-Free by 2020 (Video)
  Lateline, Australian Broadcasting Corporation —
  November 23, 2009
  Los Angeles is one of the biggest power consumers in America but it has set the ambitious goal of being a coal-free city by 2020. They are calling it an energy revolution. (Features interviews with Scripps Director Tony Haymet and Scripps researcher Greg Mitchell.)
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• AARNet Connects the World’s Brightest Minds
  CIO — November 12, 2009
  Australia’s Academic and Research Network will connect some of the world’s most acclaimed academics and researchers for the Driving eResearch Across the Pacific conference that opens in Sydney today. Luminaries at this event include: Dr. Tony Haymet, Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Vice Chancellor for Marine Sciences, and Dean of the Graduate School of Marine Sciences at UC San Diego.
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• Scripps to Honor Prince Albert II with Revelle Prize This Week
  San Diego Union-Tribune — October 13, 2009
  Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego will present its second Roger Revelle Prize this week to Prince Albert II of Monaco for the sovereign’s work to raise awareness about global warming. Dr. Tony Haymet, director of the institution, said Prince Albert II is being given the award largely for his work organizing the Monaco Declaration, a statement signed earlier this year by 150 top marine scientists who said the world’s fisheries are in serious trouble if the amount of CO2 in the oceans continues to rise.
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• Researchers Determining the Costs of Climate Change
  San Diego Union-Tribune — October 13, 2009
  In an effort to pin down the costs of global climate change, one of the world's largest insurers announced yesterday that its research network is joining with UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography to study the effect of changes in the weather and sea level. No monetary details of the arrangement were disclosed, but Tony Haymet, Scripps' director, said that partnership with corporate clients such as Willis help make up for reductions in funding from Sacramento.
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• Scripps Director Joins NIST Advisory Group
  Thomas Net News — October 12, 2009
  Tony Haymet, director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, was appointed to NIST's Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology. In addition to serving several positions at Scripps and UC San Diego, Haymet is co-founder of CleanTECH San Diego, a business organization devoted to advancing clean technology economy.
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• Local Leaders on a Global Stage
  Huffington Post — October 10, 2009
  Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and United Nations officials welcomed more than 1,200 attendees from over 70 states, provinces, and countries to the Governors Global Climate Summit 2. As the largest gathering of regional leaders who are focused on climate solutions, this summit will help develop cooperative partnerships and promote the collaboration needed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, build green economies, and fight climate change.
  
  
  
  
  
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• Hub Culture Interview at the Governors' Global Climate
  Summit 2
  YouTube — October 3, 2009
  Tony Haymet, director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, interviews with Hub Culture green journalist Sarah Backhouse at the Governors' Global Climate Summit 2.
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• OpEd: Loving Our Oceans to Death?
  San Diego Union-Tribune — September 24, 2009
  It is more true than ever that from pollution to poaching we are loving our oceans to death. When we humans come to the ocean we look out to sea, not back at land. The oceans are a source of inspiration, protein, recreation and transport from nation to nation. Yet we don't always know how to look after them. (Co-written by Scripps Director Tony Haymet.)
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• King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Inauguration Symposium: Sustainability in a Changing Climate
  KAUST Inauguration Symposium — September 24, 2009
  King Abdullah’s vision for KAUST combines several elements that meet under the theme of sustainability, including contributing to scientific discovery, transforming the regional economy, and improving human lives around the world. Facing the possibility of climate change, concerted global effort will be required simply to sustain the quality of life the inhabitants of the Earth now enjoy, let alone advance it. (Scripps Director Tony Haymet participated in a panel discussion on Food and Water in a Changing Climate.)
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• Partnership Bridges Science Education Gap
  University of California Newsroom — September 16, 2009
  As part of a U.S. initiative to improve science education in public schools, graduate students and teachers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and San Diego Unified School District are partnering on an innovative program to help translate cutting-edge Earth science research into new education programs and curriculum for aspiring young scientists.
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• U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke Breaks Ground on Major San Diego-Area Recovery Act Project
  U.S. Department of Commerce — September 15, 2009
  U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke and Mayor Jerry Sanders led a groundbreaking ceremony in La Jolla, Calif., today for two new buildings dedicated to ocean science on the campus of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. The project is a major groundbreaking in California under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The buildings are supported by two federal agencies—the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Institute of Standards and Technology—and will feature state-of-the-art marine life tanks and cutting-edge science labs.
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• Cyberinfrastructure for Ocean Observation on Tap
  University of California Newsroom — September 2, 2009
  The U.S. has taken the next step toward construction of the revolutionary Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI): a network of ocean observing components, and their associated cyberinfrastructure, that will allow scientists to examine ocean processes on global, regional, and coastal scales. "OOI has been under design by NSF and its contractors for nearly a decade," said Scripps Oceanography Director Tony Haymet, "and significant institutional support from Scripps and its partners has contributed to the successful development of the OOI over that period. We are delighted to be playing such a key role in implementing these critical capabilities for ocean science and society."
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• Researchers: Pacific Trash Threatens Marine Life
  Associated Press — August 28, 2009
  A tawny stuffed puppy bobs in cold sea water, his four stiff legs tangled in the green net of some nameless fisherman. It's one of the bigger pieces of trash in a giant patch of garbage-littered water — one that's bigger than Texas — where most of the plastic looks like snowy confetti against the deep blue of the north Pacific Ocean. During their August fact-finding expedition, a group of University of California scientists found much more debris than they expected.
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• If They Gave Mud to Gore, What'll be Fit for a Prince?
  San Diego Union-Tribune —July 11, 2009
  What do you give to a prince? That is the question haunting Tony Haymet, the director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. Prince Albert II of Monaco will visit San Diego Oct. 23, his first official visit here, to accept Scripps' Roger Revelle Prize for his environmental advocacy. Former Vice President Al Gore received the first Revelle prize named for the late former director of Scripps, in March.
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• NOAA and the University of California Sign Ground Lease for New Fisheries Science Center
  NOAA—July 8, 2009
  NOAA and the University of California have signed a 55 year ground lease clearing the way for construction next year of a new federal laboratory and office center at the University of California, San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography campus in La Jolla. “NOAA’s new facility will enable continued expansion of collaborative research among our scientists, and will foster interaction between Scripps Ph.D. students and NOAA experts,” said Tony Haymet, director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
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• OpEd: Help From Within and Without
  The Straits Times—May 9, 2009
  Recent moves by the countries of the 'Coral Triangle' — Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Timor Leste, and the Solomon Islands - to protect the reefs of South-east Asia are both timely and laudable. But they cannot be fully effective without focused help from their friends. (Written by Scripps Director Tony Haymet.)
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• Global Ocean Talks Underway in Indonesia
  Yahoo! News—May 11, 2009
  A key global conference on oceans opened Monday in Indonesia with a warning that climate change will accelerate the destruction of already precious marine resources. Officials and ministers from more than 70 countries are meeting over five days in the port of Manado in a bid to influence crucial climate change talks in Denmark in December.
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• Obituary: Philanthropist, Publisher Ellen C. Revelle Dies at 98
  San Diego Daily Transcript—May 6, 2009
  Ellen C. Revelle, the La Jolla philanthropist and publisher emerita of The Daily Transcript, died Wednesday morning. She was 98. Described as a "community icon" in La Jolla, Ms. Revelle was involved in dozens of San Diego's educational and artistic institutions, including the University of California, San Diego, the La Jolla Historical Society, the La Jolla Music Society, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and the San Diego Opera. (Subscription required)
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• Regional Partnership to Develop Algal Biofuels Gets Backing of San Diego Leaders 
  Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News – April 28, 2009
  San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders today joined UC San Diego Chancellor Marye Anne Fox, local scientists and industry leaders to announce their support for a regional partnership designed to develop innovative ways to turn algae into biofuels.
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• ICSU-WMO-IOC-IGFA Review of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP): Final Report – Prepublication
  During 2007–09, the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) is under review by ICSU, the International Group of Funding Agencies for Global Change Research (IGFA), the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC). The goal of the reviews is to evaluate the extent to which the international programmes add value to their respective areas of research and to the national programmes that contribute to them.
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• A Home for Climate Center
  San Diego Union-Tribune – April 19, 2009
  With world-renowned scientists at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, including such historical icons as Roger Revelle and Charles David Keeling, San Diego rightly can claim to be a global center of climate change research. 
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• Tony Haymet Participates in China-US Workshop on Cooperation in Energy and Climate Change
  Beijing – April 9, 2009
  A panel of a dozen American climate experts and China hands were in Beijing this week with Chinese counterparts for a day-long workshop organized by the Asia Society and Peking and Tsinghua Universities.
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• Local Coalition Working to Bring Climate Change Institute to Area
  San Diego Union-Tribune – April 12, 2009
  Learning from their failed 2005 bid to house California's stem cell institute in San Diego County, local business and academic leaders are mounting an early campaign to become the state's hub for research on global warming. San Diego has its own claims to fame, said Tony Haymet, director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego. “We're just as qualified as anybody else – maybe more qualified – to be the center of California when it comes to climate solutions,” Haymet said.
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• Climate Change Effects in California
  Science Daily  – April 1, 2009
  A biennial report released April 1 by a team of experts that advises California’s governor suggests that climate changes are poised to affect virtually every sector of the state’s economy and most of its ecosystems. Significant impacts will likely occur under even moderate scenarios of global greenhouse emissions and associated climate change, but without action, severe and costly climate change impacts are possible across the state.
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• What's on Your Cleantech Innovation Wish List?
  CleanTech Forum - Washington, D.C.  – February 25, 2009
  Leaders of the scientific community talk about what needs to happen--and the little-known work already being done--in the cleantech sector.
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• Opinion: Carbon Soot is an Important Player in Climate Change
  San Diego Union-Tribune - March 17, 2009
  
  Soot and pollutants like it are among the last climate change agents to be fully appreciated by science, but their control could lead to the first international victory in the fight against global warming. These aerosols may feature in a fascinating interplay of science and policy in the lead-up to the United Nations' climate conference in Copenhagen this December, but only if conference participants can broaden their perspective on the causes of global warming. (Written by Tony Haymet, director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.)
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• Oceans, Carbon Dioxide, and Acidity
  Australian Broadcasting Corporation, The Science Show (Radio) - Feb. 28, 2009
  
  Tony Haymet, director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, is increasingly worried about ocean acidification. He cites the work of Dick Feely which showed highly acidic water off California. He too says human interaction with chemicals or additives is no solution. He says verification of such intervention would be extremely difficult and costly. The Great Barrier Reef is threatened by increased ocean temperature, increased acidity and pollution from runoff. It all adds up to stress and threat to the reef.
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• Opinion: Four Developments to Watch in Clean Tech
  San Jose Mercury News– Feb. 24, 2009
  
  The nexus of global energy markets and climate change science is a dynamic place these days. As more than 800 clean-technology leaders representing about $3 trillion in capital gather this week at the Cleantech Forum in San Francisco on the eve of a new era for green jobs and the environment, major shifts are under way that could change the global energy and climate agenda. (Written by Tony Haymet, director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.)
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• UCSD and Scripps to Honor Revelle, Gore in March
  San Diego Daily Transcript– Feb. 6, 2009
  
  If Roger Revelle were alive today, the thousands of people and organizations who are “going green” would probably bring a smile to his face. Revelle, who died in 1991 and would have turned 100 this March, was instrumental in bringing the message of global warming to the world. In his honor, the University of California, San Diego and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, are holding a symposium and presenting an award to former Vice President Al Gore. “He changed the nation, he changed the world,” Dr. Tony Haymet, director of Scripps, said of Revelle. “So 100 years after his birth we’re going to give him quite a celebration.”
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• Scripps Contributes to Google Earth's Expansion into the Ocean
  Imperial Valley News – Feb. 2, 2009
  Seafloor imagery from a Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego scientist brings the oceans to life in a new version of Google Earth unveiled today. “Google Earth’s expansion into the ocean offers tremendous opportunities to educate the public about the challenges facing our planet, of which 70 percent lies underwater,” said Tony Haymet, director of Scripps and vice chancellor for Marine Sciences at UC San Diego.
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• San Diego Algae Biofuels Industry Gains Steam with R&D Consortium
  Xconomy – Jan. 21, 2009
  The San Diego region is undertaking a broad initiative to accelerate development of algae-to-biofuels technology by establishing a new organization, the San Diego Center for Algae-based Biofuels, or SD-CAB. Algae research is still at a relatively early stage, says Tony Haymet, director of UC San Deigo’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and vice chairman of CleanTech San Diego’s board. But Haymet says he’s encouraged by San Diego’s “critical mass of companies, General Atomics included.”
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• Director Keeps Scripps at Forefront of Oceanographic Study
  San Diego Daily Transcript – Dec. 31, 2008
  Tony Haymet is at the helm of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, a scientific organization that provides society with knowledge -- real data on the effects of global climate change -- that will help shape the future of the planet. He's a distinguished professor and researcher with stints at Harvard and Berkeley. He has authored more than 160 peer-reviewed scientific articles and serves as the University of California, San Diego's vice chancellor for marine sciences and dean of the Graduate School of Marine Sciences.
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• Scripps Institution Nets $12M from Washington
  San Diego Business Journal – Dec. 1, 2008
  

  A $12 million award from the Department of Commerce will jump-start efforts to build environmental research laboratories at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The facility will house research on marine ecosystems, which offer insights into climate change and other global phenomena, and will act as a gathering site for national organizations with similar interests. “It’s a morale booster,” said Scripps Director Tony Haymet. “I’m just thrilled for all of our people who work so hard, first of all, to get the science right."
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• Building Boom at Scripps
  San Diego Union-Tribune – Nov. 25, 2008
  Construction is winding down on a state-of-the-art conference center at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, but campus officials won't get much of a break before their next building project begins. The institution announced the U.S. Department of Commerce pledged $12 million toward a new marine ecosystems laboratory. Construction is scheduled to start in summer 2010 and conclude in 2012. The award was a coup for Scripps, selected from among 93 grant applications nationwide. Officials said it's rare for the federal government to offer grant money for building laboratories. “We are grateful for this vote of confidence,” said Tony Haymet, Scripps director.
  

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• Advice and Comments: Make Climate Change the Priority, Involve China
  San Diego Union-Tribune – Nov. 13, 2008
  

  From climate change and science education to energy and the space program, President Barack Obama will be faced with a host of pressing issues in science, medicine, and technology when he takes office in January. The choices he makes – and the actions he takes – will affect all of us, immediately and far into the future, in ways both obvious and unforeseen. Which problems should he tackle first? What is the top priority? What is most important? We asked local scientists, doctors, teachers, and thinkers for their ideas and insights.
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• Haymet to Give Keynote Talk on Ocean 2.0: Resources and Challenges for the 21st Century
  International Symposium on Land, Transport, and Marine Technology - Seoul, Korea -- Nov. 5-6, 2008

• EARTH 8: "A Planet in Peril:" A Closer Look at the Obama Energy Plan
  CBS 8 San Diego (Video) – Nov. 5, 2008
  America's President-elect Barack Obama is heading to the White House with a new plan for the country's energy future. His policy to battle global warming is considered one of the most aggressive of any administration. But the struggling economy could limit which policies can be pushed forward. Tony Haymet, Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego shares his notes on how the president should handle energy use and carbon emissions over the next four years.
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• Unprecedented Look at San Diego Bay via New Center
  Imperial Valley News – Oct. 11, 2008
  The San Diego Board of Port Commissioners has approved funding for a new interdisciplinary research center to study San Diego Bay, its watershed and San Diego’s beaches and coasts.  The Center for Bay and Coastal Dynamics (CBCD) brings together geologists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and ecologists from San Diego State University (SDSU) to study the complex environmental processes influencing San Diego Bay and surrounding coastal waters.
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• Haymet Talk on Breakthroughs from the World’s Leading Research Institutions
  CleanTech Forum - Washington, D.C.  – Sept. 16, 2008

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  Forward looking leaders from Science outline the near to medium term breakthroughs which may provide disruptive market opportunities while addressing resource constraints, climate change, water scarcity and mitigation and adaptation opportunities over the 2nd and 3rd decades of the 21st Century. (Download PDF)
  
  
• Protecting Oceans Now a Regional Quest
  La Jolla Light  – Aug. 27, 2008
  The governors of California, Oregon, and Washington pledged to better protect and manage the ocean and coastal resources when they signed the West Coast Governors' Agreement on Ocean Health in 2006. The agreement's long-term action plan, released in July, calls for the three states to coordinate efforts and share information on several fronts, from clean beaches to research and public education. "It's a great step," said Tony Haymet, director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. "It capitalizes on things done before and takes them to another level."
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•  Acid Threat to Ocean Fisheries
  Australian Broadcasting Corporation  – Aug. 19, 2008
  A scientist is warning excessive greenhouse gas emissions are making the oceans more acidic, putting at risk global fisheries. Director Tony Haymet, from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, says organisms that make calcium carbonate shells are a pivotal part of the food chain for fish, and are being affected by the rising acidity. He says recent research work on carbon dioxide sinks in the oceans indicates there's a problem.
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• An Educational Journey: Questions for Tony Haymet
  Voice of San Diego - July 4, 2008
  Tony Haymet, an Australian chemist, was named the 10th director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at University of California, San Diego. He came to Scripps from Australia's national science research agency, where he served as science and policy director. In his two years at Scripps, four of the school's climate change researchers have won Nobel Peace prizes and the institution's global warming studies -- and its other academic research -- have continued receiving international attention. We sat down with Haymet to get his assessment of the world's oceans, to learn what evolutionary mysteries he'd like to understand about the ocean and to talk about his beef with NASA.
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• Haymet Remarks on Appreciation of Dr. Doug Henderson
  ACS Conference - Park City – June 15, 2008
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• China Just Might Surprise the U.S. on Climate Change
  San Francisco Chronicle, Opinion - May 28, 2008
  The next American administration should be prepared for a China that is getting serious about the climate change issue for its own domestic reasons. Chinese experts understand that global warming will affect their country much more severely than North America. (Written by Tony Haymet, Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and Susan Shirk, Director of the UC System-wide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation)
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• UCSD to Lower Its SDG&E Bills, Energize Renewable Resource Plan
  San Diego Business Journal -  April 28, 2008
  As part of its effort to promote renewable energy, UC San Diego will gradually reduce the amount of electricity it purchases from San Diego Gas & Electric Co. and replace it with "green" power produced from fuel cells and solar sources on campus. The primary reason for the change, which may result in cheaper electricity bills, is to reduce the school's greenhouse gas emissions, university officials say.
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• Keelings' Half-Century of CO2 Measurements Serves as Global Warming's Longest Yardstick
  San Diego Union-Tribune - March 27, 2008
  Fifty years ago this month, geochemist Charles David Keeling began recording the curve of the earth. Few scientific studies have had a bigger impact, and not just on people in white lab coats. Like the carbon dioxide Keeling studied, the results of his research have circled the globe. He began monitoring CO2 levels in the atmosphere at Mauna Loa, Hawaii, in March of 1958. He was working for Roger Revelle, then director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography and one of the founders of UC San Diego.
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• Metro Movers To Watch In 08
  San Diego Metropolitan - Dec. 3, 2007
  Tony Haymet is the new face of global warming at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego,
  where in 1956 then-Scripps Director Roger Revelle established an atmospheric carbon dioxide monitoring program that laid the foundation for what concerns us today.
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• Better Ocean Monitoring 'Vital'
  BBC News - Nov. 25, 2007
  Warming seas, overfishing, and pollution mean it is vital to improve the system for monitoring the world's oceans, says a group of distinguished scientists. The researchers say more data is needed to ensure the world is able to respond effectively to any potential threats. Tony Haymet, chairman of the Pogo's executive committee and director of UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, said the international community had agreed to "construct a comprehensive, integrated ocean observing system two decades ago." But he added that the venture was less than half completed.
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• Studying Oceans with JOI
  La Jolla Village News - October 26, 2007
  The Joint Oceanographic Institutions (JOI) has awarded a $97.7 million contract to an academic partnership led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), to support the development, installation, and initial operation of the coastal and global components of the National Science Foundation's Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI). The WHOI partnership includes Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.
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• Governor Signs Ocean Protection Bills
  North County Times - October 15, 2007
  In a flurry of activity leading up to today's deadline for signing legislation passed this year, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger last week put his signature on several bills that boost protection of the Pacific Ocean. Tony Haymet, director of UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography and a trustee with the California Ocean Science Trust, praised the governor and Legislature. Haymet said the bills "demonstrate the commitment of our state's leadership to broad and forward-thinking ocean protection policies."
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• Project to Bring Undersea Wonders to Web Users
  San Francisco Chronicle - July 29, 2007
  Up to now, oceanographers went out on research vessels periodically, taking samples and making measurements, at a cost of about $25,000 per vessel per trip, said Tony Haymet, director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego. For the Ocean Observatories Initiative, Scripps will develop and manage sensors going deep into the ocean. Down the road, scientists will be able to predict what the ocean will be like in the future, create that world virtually, and travel in it, say those involved in the project.
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• Economic Summit Examines Both Threat and Opportunity
  Vancouver Sun, Opinion - May 31, 2007
  There is serious leadership on climate change arising from the west coast of the North American continent.
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• The Planet NASA Needs to Explore
  Washington Post, Opinion - May 10, 2007
  As momentum gathers to reinvigorate human space missions to the moon and Mars, we risk hurting ourselves, and Earth, in the long run.
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• Changing the State's Energy Dynamic
  San Diego Union-Tribune - May 9, 2008
  

  The creation of the California Institute for Climate Solutions, a $600 million new research institute created by the state Public Utilities Commission, demonstrates bold leadership on the seminal environmental and economic issue of our time – climate change. It also lets Californians do what we do best: lead in innovation in a way that is good for both the environment and the economy. Climate science was born here at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and continues to inform policy conversations today. Since its founding in 1903, Scripps has been an international leader in studying oceans, the driver of global climate change. Fifty years ago, Charles David Keeling from Scripps started the record of human impact on climate by measuring carbon – innovation that continues to this day. Now, led by renowned scientist Tony Haymet and supported by an entire community of world-class research institutes, universities, and companies, San Diego has been the center of activity around climate change for 50 years.
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• Urgent Need for Aussie Eyes in the Skies
  Sydney Morning Herald, Australia -  Mar. 31, 2007
  Australians are inspired by human space flight, but more importantly we are one of the world's great observers of planet Earth from space. During the past decade, we have opened our eyes in space and learned to use a variety of satellites to forecast cyclones, spot bushfires, measure soil moisture, foretell our weather, prospect for minerals, measure rising sea levels, monitor the Great Barrier Reef, and predict the "ocean state" for everyone from recreational fishermen and surfers to the Royal Australian Navy. The economic and security value of this information is untold. (Written by Tony Haymet, director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography.)
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• Overloaded Oceans
  Nine MSN, Opinion - Mar. 30, 2007
  Ocean acidification is a real and potentially devastating consequence of climate change that demands immediate attention. (Written by Tony Haymet, director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography.)
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• Bipartisan Move on Solar Needed, Warns Expert
  Sydney Morning Herald - Mar. 29, 2007
  Both sides of politics should not rely on "clean coal" technology as a solution to the nation's greenhouse emissions, the distinguished scientist who will open Labor's climate summit this weekend has warned.
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• No Surprises in Climate Change Report, Oceanographer Says
  ABC National Radio, Australia - Mar. 29, 2007
  Australia's leading oceanographer, Dr Tony Haymet believes there are lessons for Australia in the ambitious program by California Governor Arnie Schwarzenegger to reduce carbon emissions, and that Australia could lift its reputation in the international community by acting as an honest broker to help the world's two biggest polluters come to the party on global warming.
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• Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere - First Signs of Increase
  The Science Show - Mar. 10, 2007
  ABC National Radio, Australia
  The first predictions about CO₂ were made 100 years ago. The then director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Roger Revelle and Scripps scientist Charles David Keeling conducted the first experiments on CO₂ in the atmosphere 50 years ago. Tony Haymet says what we do in the next 5 years will effect where the world goes in terms of climate in the next 50, and beyond.
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• Keeping our Focus on What Matters Most
  The Oregonian, Opinion - Mar. 15, 2007
  The climate change we're experiencing is the most critical problem planet Earth has ever faced. The West needs to deliver that message with one voice.
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• Q&A: Tony Haymet and Richard C.J. Somerville
  San Diego Union-Tribune - Mar. 11, 2007
  UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography has been involved in global warming science for decades.
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• Q&A: Tony Haymet
  UC San Diego Chancellor's Office Website - 2007
  Vice Chancellor for Marine Sciences Tony Haymet, a highly distinguished chemist, is the director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Here, he talks about Scripps’s enduring vitality and the future of global science research.
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• Climate Change and the Ocean Environment - Tony Haymet
  NATO Parliamentary Assembly - Nov. 15, 2006
  Science And Technology Committee
  This is the almost 50 year record of CO₂ concentration on top of Mauna Loa started by C.D. Keeling. The funding challenges along the way are noted. This CO₂ stays in the atmosphere for hundreds of years, and heats up our planet by trapping additional radiation energy - the so-called "greenhouse" effect. The physics of this effect is not contested by scientists. More