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La Jolla Shores. Coordinates: 32°51′39″N 117°15′25″W. La Jolla Shores and the Scripps Pier. La Jolla Shores, with its northern part Scripps Beach, is a beach and vacation/residential community of the same name in the community of La Jolla in San Diego, California. The La Jolla Shores business district is a mixed-use village encircling ...
The Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) is the center for oceanography and Earth science based at the University of California, San Diego. Its main campus is located in La Jolla, with additional facilities in Point Loma . Founded in 1903 and incorporated into the University of California system in 1912, the institution has since broadened ...
Scripps Health is one of the many organizations that grew out of Ellen Browning Scripps’ philanthropic efforts. While the organization was formally founded in 1924, the initiative to improve public health in San Diego began in 1917, when Scripps funded the construction of a new sanitarium, La Jolla Sanitarium, since the health center at the time, Kline House, was too small and poorly ...
San Diego-Scripps Coastal SMCA encompasses an area that has been protected since 1929, known previously as the San Diego Marine Life Refuge. It protects most of the unique Scripps Canyon branch of La Jolla’s submarine canyon system, as well as the marine life that thrives in the nutrient-rich water funneled to the surface from the canyon system.
Scripps Research is a nonprofit American medical research facility that focuses on research and education in the biomedical sciences. Headquartered in San Diego, California, the institute has over 170 laboratories employing 2,100 scientists, [ 1] technicians, graduate students, and administrative and other staff.
La Jolla Cove. La Jolla Cove is a small cove with a beach that is surrounded by cliffs in La Jolla, a community of San Diego, California. Point La Jolla forms the south side of the cove. The area is protected as part of a marine reserve and is popular with snorkelers, swimmers and scuba divers. The swells that often roll in from the open ocean ...
Birch Aquarium at Scripps (commonly shortened to Birch Aquarium) is a public aquarium in La Jolla, a community of San Diego, California. It serves as the public outreach center for the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. [ 4] The aquarium houses more than 3,000 animals representing over 380 species.
Scripps Coastal Reserve is a 126-acre (51 hectare) University of California Natural Reserve System reserve located west of UC San Diego in the La Jolla Farms area of La Jolla, California. Administered by UC San Diego , the site is owned by the University of California and managed for teaching and research.