Scripps Institution secures $6.5M grant from NOAA to enhance Earth science studies, advancing geodesy education and updating spatial reference systems.
The grant will enable the creation of an academic track within the Scripps Geophysics graduate program in geodesy, a field that studies Earth's geometric shape and its deformations, orientation in space and gravity field.
UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography has been selected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to receive a five-year, $6.5 million Geospatial Modeling grant, officials announced Friday.