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The San Diego-La Jolla Underwater Park is the historical name for a marine reserve that includes the San Diego-Scripps Coastal Marine Conservation Area (SMCA) and Matlahuayl State Marine Reserve (SMR), adjoining marine protected areas that extend offshore from La Jolla in San Diego County on California's south coast.
The Sanford Consortium is a non-profit biomedical research institute in La Jolla, California.It was formed from a collaboration between the Burnham Biomedical Research Institute, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Scripps Research, La Jolla Institute for Immunology, and the University of California, San Diego. [1]
In 1905, they moved to a small laboratory in La Jolla Cove until they arranged for the purchase of a 170-acre (0.69 km 2) site in La Jolla, north of San Diego. The land was purchased for $1,000 at a public auction from the city of San Diego (the same site where the SIO main campus is today). [ 5 ]
In 1970, the City of San Diego incorporated the San Diego-La Jolla Underwater Park that stretched more than 2 miles (3.2 km) offshore. Responsibility for maintenance was to be shared by the City of San Diego's Department of Parks and Recreation and the California Department of Fish and Game. A 514-acre ecological reserve and marine life refuge ...
The Old Scripps Building overlooks the Pacific coast near the Ellen Browning Scripps Memorial Pier on the campus of Scripps Institution of Oceanography.It is set on a terrace about 15 feet (4.6 m) above the shore, and is a relatively nondescript concrete structure, two stories in height, measuring about 50 by 75 feet (15 m × 23 m), with the long axis oriented roughly east–west.
La Jolla Cove, the staple of La Jolla, is the most popular tourist destination [57] in La Jolla, featuring many snorkelers, [58] swimmers, and wildlife (most notably the La Jolla seals). [ 59 ] [ 60 ] During some parts of the year, people will find the shallow ends of the beach filled with harmless leopard sharks , as they come closer to shore ...
La Jolla — a community within the City of San Diego, in coastal San Diego County, California. Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
Birch Aquarium is a public aquarium in La Jolla, a community of San Diego, California. It serves as the public outreach center for Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, with over half a million people visiting the aquarium each year. [5] The aquarium houses more than 3,000 animals representing over 380 ...