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  1. Collection

    Taiwanese American Archives' Photo Albums

    • The Taiwanese American Archives' Photo Albums  include documents and images covering a broad range of topics including sports, news events, concerts, festivals and conferences spanning the 1940s to the present decade.
    • Date: 2014 to 2021
  2. Collection

    Data from: Short-term variability of atmospheric helium revealed through a cryo-enrichment method

    • He/N2 observations from Scripps Pier and supplementary O2/N2, Ar/N2 and CO2 data.
    • Date: 2022-04-23 to 2022-05-25
  3. Collection

    Scripps Institution of Oceanography Lantern Slide Collection

    • A selection of slides from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Lantern Slide Collection, including images of local cliffs and beaches, the development of the campus, scientists, and research vessels.
    • Date: 1908-1940
  4. Collection

    Data from: Plankton energy flows using a global size-structured and trait-based model

    • This collection includes a global 20 year (1990-2009) climatology of diagnostic and prognostic variables for the Size-based Plankton Ecological TRAits (MARBL-SPECTRA) model.
    • Date: 1990 to 2009
  5. Collection

    Data from: Harmonic Analysis of Non-Phase-Locked Tides with Red Noise Using the red_tide Package

    • Data, functions, and scripts associated with "Harmonic Analysis of Non-Phase-Locked Tides with Red Noise Using the red_tide Package" (Kachelein et al. 2022).
    • Date: 2010 to 2021
  6. Collection

    Art of Science

    • UC San Diego Library Art of Science contest submissions.
    • Date: 2021 to present
  7. Collection

    Data from: Airborne observations of shoaling and breaking internal waves

    • This collection contains data presented in: "Airborne observations of shoaling and breaking internal waves." This includes a mosaic of sea surface temperature, spectral analysis of temperature structures, surface velocities, and areas undergoing breaking.
    • Date: 2015-08-01
  8. Collection

    Shore Stations Program Data Archive: Current and historical coastal ocean temperature and salinity measurements from California stations

    • Data from the Shore Stations Program consists of current and historical daily, manual measurements of surface temperature and salinity from the nine active stations located on the California coastline.
    • Date: 1916 to present
  9. Collection

    Robert Erickson Sound Recording Collection

    • Robert Erickson was a co-founder of the UCSD Music Department.  This collection includes his sound recordings of his own works, much of it recorded under his direction, also rare or unique recordings of particular interest to him, from ethnic music to works and lectures by his contemporaries and some student projects.
    • Access: Restricted to UC San Diego use only
    • Date: 1947 to 1984
  10. Collection

    Meteorological and Aerosol Measurements near the Salton Sea, California

    • This collection contains meteorological and aerosol measurements collected at a field site located near the western shoreline of the Salton Sea, California. These data are designed to study the dynamics and physical properties of dust storms and other aerosol events in the region.
    • Date: 2019-12 to present
  11. Collection

    Underway Shipboard Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (SADCP) Data Archive

    • Underway shipboard acoustic Doppler current profiler (SADCP) database assembled from the public archive of CODAS post-processed data.
    • Date: 1990 to 2020
  12. Collection

    Data from: Lineage tracing shows that cell size asymmetries predict the dorsoventral axis in the sea star embryo

    • Microscopy data relative to measurements of cell sizes in early embryos of 3 echinoderm species (Patiria miniata, Lytechinus pictus and Patiriella regularis) and to lineage tracing experiments in the sea star Patiria miniata.
    • Date: 2018 to 2022
  13. Collection

    Historical Catalog of Winter Weather Regimes Impacting California, 1949-2017

    • This dataset contains a historical catalog of daily atmospheric winter weather regimes observed over the North Pacific and western North America spanning 1949-2017. These weather regimes have been identified as important drivers of atmospheric river landfalls, Santa Ana winds, floods, and wildfires in California.
    • Date: November-February 1949 to 2017
  14. Collection

    Tritoncast

    • Tritoncast is the podcast for UC San Diego Athletics.
    • Date: 2020-
  15. Collection

    Data from: SEEKR2: Versatile Multiscale Milestoning Utilizing the OpenMM Molecular Dynamics Engine

    • This data set contains the files necessary to recreate the results in the paper "SEEKR2: Versatile Multiscale Milestoning Utilizing the OpenMM Molecular Dynamics Engine".
    • Date: 2020-08 to 2022-03
  16. Collection

    Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E) Surface Meteorological Observational Dataset

    • CW3E Surface Meteorological Observational Dataset: temperature, relative humidity, pressure, precipitation, and soil moisture and temperature at six levels collected every 2 minutes, from 11 stations in the Russian, Yuba, Feather, and Prado watersheds.
    • Date: 2017 to present
  17. Collection

    XRF and FTIR data from Pismo Beach Air Quality Study from May 2019 - May 2021

    • XRF and FTIR atmospheric aerosol measurements from five campaigns conducted in the Oceano Dunes from May 2019 to May 2021. This includes dust, sea salt, non-sea salt sulfate, organic mass, and an unidentified fraction.
    • Date: 2019-05-14 to 2021-05-24
  18. Collection

    Scripps Argo Trajectory-Based Velocity Product

    • This collection contains absolute velocity estimates from quality controlled Argo trajectory files. Both Scripps trajectory products include trajectories from Core, BGC and Deep Argo floats starting in 2001. The Scripps trajectory products provide velocities between 800-1200 dbar or 100-6200 dbar.
    • Date: 2001 through 2025
  19. Collection

    Data from: Using a Lagrangian particle tracking model to evaluate impacts of El Niño-related advection on euphausiids in the southern California Current System

    • These supplemental animations depict particle backtracks for six euphausiid species sampled in the southern California Current System in spring, 2008-2017. The particle model runs four months backward to determine winter water mass origins.
    • Date: 2007-11-01 to 2017-03-31
  20. Collection

    Joanne Kyger Papers: Selections

    • Digitized and born-digital selections from the papers of poet Joanne Kyger.
    • Access: Some items restricted
    • Date: 1955-2017
  21. Collection

    D. B. Richardson Baja California Video Collection

    • The Californias Documentation Project includes professionally recorded interviews with renowned Baja California Peninsula travelers, scholars, explorers and scientists. The interviews are conducted by David Burrell Richardson, and produced by Richardson and filmmaker Isaac Artenstein.
    • Access: Restricted View
    • Date: 2015-2016
  22. Collection

    Millerd Family Documents

    • Documents of the Millerd family, 1740-1900, including records that document birth and death dates for family members, debts, military service, and a set of manuscript sermons attributed to Squire Millerd.
    • Date: 1740-1900
  23. Collection

    Franja de Propaganda Electoral de Chile en 1988

    • This Collection is composed of thirteen hours of Chilean television programming known as the "Franja de Propaganda Electoral" produced and aired in 1988 in the 27 days preceding the plebiscite resulting in the transition from the military rule of Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte to democratic governance. 
    • Date: 1988
  24. Collection

    Data from: Quantitative regional observations of the geological influence on primary sandy beaches

    • The dataset includes mapped beach elevations, and gravel/bedrock locations in GeoTIFF format.
    • Date: 2017-10-01 to 2021-03-31
  25. Collection

    Social Sciences Data Collection

    • The Social Sciences Data Collection includes an assortment of numeric and textual datasets collected by the Library to support the research and learning needs of UC San Diego students, staff, and academics. Some datasets are open access, while others are licensed by the Library and restricted to UC San Diego IP addresses.
    • Access: Some items restricted
  26. Collection

    Indigenous Writers and Their Critics: Escritores indígenas y sus críticos

    • This collection brings together programmatic, descriptive textual materials and video-recorded proceedings of unique presentations (including readings and recitations of original literature and literary analysis) at the “Indigenous Writers and Their Critics” Symposium held at the University of California – San Diego on Feb. 24 and 25, 2020. / Esta colección junta materiales programáticos, textuales, y grabaciones por video de las ponencias únicas (incluso lecturas y recitaciones de literatura original y análisis) presentados en el simposio internacional “Escritores indígenas y sus críticos” realizado en la Universidad de California – San Diego el 24 y 25 de febrero, 2020. 
    • Date: February 24-25, 2020
  27. Collection

    J. Robert Beyster Collection: Selections

    • Selections from the collection of Dr. J. Robert Beyster (1924-2014), a scientist and entrepreneur who was the founder, former chairman and CEO of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), an employee-owned San Diego research and development firm founded in 1969.
    • Date: 1940-2016
  28. Collection

    Data from: Impact of Atmospheric River Reconnaissance Dropsonde Data on the Assimilation of Satellite Data in GFS

    • This collection are the satellite radiance data from the data denial experiments for the 2020 atmospheric river reconnaissance. The data are generated by the NCEP GDAS system during January 24 – March 18, 2020, corresponding to analyses in Zheng et al. 2022.
    • Date: 2020-01-24 to 2020-03-18
  29. Collection

    Data from: Metabolic rates in the Agua Hedionda Lagoon during the 2020 Southern California red tide event

    • A time series from autonomous SeapHOx sensors (pH, dissolved oxygen (DO), salinity, temperature, and pressure) in the Agua Hedionda Lagoon, captured baseline conditions in 2018 and the effects of a massive red tide occurring along the Southern & Baja California coast during the spring of 2020.
    • Date: 2018-11-02 to 2018-12-24 and 2020-02-05 to 2020-06-14
  30. Collection

    Capricorn Expedition Photographs

    • The Capricorn Expedition (1952-1953) was part of a series of oceanic expeditions in the Pacific conducted by the US Navy and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
    • Date: 1952-1953
  31. Collection

    inSite Archive

    • A selection of records from the InSite Archive, documenting the arts organization's collaborative contemporary public art projects in the San Diego-Tijuana region, and Mexico City.
    • Date: 1992-2018
  32. Collection

    inSite Archive: Casa Gallina

    • Digital records documenting the inSite art collective's sixth edition, known as inSite/Casa Gallina, a six-year project located in the neighborhood of Santa María la Ribera in Mexico City.
    • Date: 2013-2018
  33. Collection

    Data from: A Broadband View of the Sea Surface Height Wavenumber Spectrum

    • This collection has SSH observations from airborne lidar used in the analysis presented in Villas Bôas et al. (2022)
    • Date: 2019-03-28 to 2019-04-10
  34. Collection

    Training image data for: Environmental and ecological drivers of harmful algal blooms in the Southern California Bight

    • The datasets include example images of marine protists and copepods. The images were collected by the Scripps Plankton Camera (http://spc.ucsd.edu/), located at the end of the Scripps Pier, La Jolla, CA, at the tide-dependent depth of approximately 3-4 m.
    • Date: 2015 to 2019
  35. Collection

    Southern California Narrow Cold-Frontal Rainband (NCFR) Catalogue (1995-2020)

    • The following dataset includes the complete list of NCFR events for Southern California from 1995-2020. Supplemental figures including synoptic meteorology plots using ERA5 reanalysis data, level-II NEXRAD composite plots created using LROSE, and water year and monthly NCFR figures are also provided. A README file desribing each component is included.
    • Date: 2019 to 2020
  36. Collection

    Data from: Building Cultural Heritage Resilience through Remote Sensing: An Integrated Approach using Multi-temporal Site Monitoring, Datafication, and Web-GL Visualization

    • This collection integrates highly accurate 3D snapshots of Bodie's historic buildings before/after disturbance, or post-restoration, and other 3D geospatial data that were used to monitor and digitally preserve important cultural resources at Bodie California State Historic Park.
    • Date: 2015 and 2020
  37. Collection

    Ernst Krenek Newsletter

    • The Ernst Krenek Newsletter contains original and reprinted articles concerning composer Ernest Krenek’s life, analysis of his works, his place in twentieth century music, as well as information concerning performances of his music, and book reviews.
    • Access: Restricted to UC San Diego use only
    • Date: 1990-1998
  38. Collection

    SIO Archive Film Collection

    • This collection contains films documenting Scripps Institution of Oceanography research, expeditions, and campus history. The collection also includes training and introductory science films created by the U.S. Navy.
    • Date: 1940-1983
  39. Collection

    Structural Tests of Full-Scale Composite Airframe-Representative Structure under Blunt Loading Simulating High-Energy Wide Area Blunt Impact (HEWABI) by Ground Service Equipment

    • Datasets from High Energy Wide Area Blunt Impact (HEWABI) specimens testing performed at UCSD between August and December 2019.
    • Date: 2019-08 to 2019-12
  40. Collection

    Data from: Improved Forecast Skill through the Assimilation of Dropsonde Observations from the Atmospheric River Reconnaissance Program

    • This dataset are initial and boundary conditions generated by West-WRF implemented at Scripps Institution of Oceanography of UC San Diego for the Atmospheric River Reconnaissance dropsonde data denial experiments described in Zheng et al. 2021 (JGR). With this dataset, one should be able to repeat the WRF simulations for the NoDROP and WithDROP experiments using WRF V3.9.1.1.
    • Date: 2016-02-14 to 2019-03-01
  41. Collection

    Steve Turner Collection of African-Americana

    • The Turner Collection comprises more than 300 items that help document the lives and contributions of American Blacks, largely through original photographic images.
    • Access: Some items restricted
    • Date: 1850-1979
  42. Collection

    Radiosonde Data Collected During California Storms

    • Vertical profiles of temperature, humidity, pressure, and wind speed collected during Atmospheric River events in California (2017-2021).
    • Date: 2016 to 2021
  43. Collection

    Wantok Niuspepa

    • Wantok Niuspepa is the only Tok Pisin language newspaper in Papua New Guinea.
    • Date: 1972 to 2016
  44. Collection

    Baja California Government Documents Collection

    • Municipal and government documents relating to official policies, civil matters, contracts, litigation, war, and state infrastructure development in Baja California, including Santo Tomas, Rosarito, Mexicali, Tecate, Tijuana, and other towns and cities.
    • Date: 1831-1982 (bulk 1900-1925)
  45. Collection

    Joel E. Dimsdale, M.D. Holocaust Survivor Interview Collection

    • Interviews collected in the 1970s discussing coping behaviors and stress experienced by Holocaust survivors.
    • Access: Restricted View
    • Date: 1969-1973
  46. Collection

    Carl L. Hubbs Papers

    • Images from the collection of Scripps Institution of Oceanography icthyologist Carl L. Hubbs.
    • Date: 1889-1976
  47. Collection

    Gas composition and fluorescence data for: Continuous Measurements of Volatile Gases as Detection of Algae Crop Health

    • Approximately one month of gas composition data (from m/z 18-215) from three separate carboys averaged into 15-minute bins which was collected by chemical ionization mass spectrometry. Approximately one month of twice daily single point algae fluorescence grab samples as well as continuously collected algae fluorescence during each carboy infection period as described in the manuscript.
    • Date: 2019-11-08 to 2019-12-05
  48. Collection

    Ephraim W. Morse Family Papers

    • The Ephraim W. Morse Family Papers includes correspondence documenting 19th century life in New England and California. It includes letters from many promient San Diegians, including: Alonzo Horton, Joseph Judson Ames, Manuelito Cota, Rufus King Porter, Judge James Robinson, Jonathan T. Warner, and Thomas Whaley, as well as family members.
    • Date: 1838-1907
  49. Collection

    Data from: The Seasonal Cycle of Significant Wave Height in the Ocean: Local Versus Remote Forcing

    • This collection consists of NetCDF files that contain intermediate products derived from observer and modelled data produced by the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER) and Remote Sensing Systems, corresponding to analysis by Colosi et al. (2021).
    • Date: 1993-01-01 to 2016-12-31
  50. Collection

    Elisha Oscar Crosby Papers

    • Autobiographical essays, documents, and correspondence regarding Elisha Oscar Crosby, an early (1849-1895) California settler, lawyer, politician, diplomat, and civil servant.
    • Date: 1849-1895