Let’s take a walk down memory lane to check out the history of UC San Diego’s very own Scripps Institution of Oceanography. 🌊 Scripps began as a small laboratory at the Hotel del Coronado in 1903, then moved to La Jolla Cove in 1907. UC Berkeley faculty member William Ritter had the idea for its founding as a location to collect marine life specimens. 🦈 The philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps and her brother E.W. Scripps helped purchase the land and funded the first laboratory and the iconic Scripps Pier. 🐟 By 1912, a cluster of bungalows were built as faculty residences and it was named the Scripps Institution for Biological Research. In 1925, the University of California renamed it the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. 🐳 By the 1940s, the center was devising the first surf forecasts, predicting surfs and swells in response to U.S. military need during WWII. 🐙 Scripps was affiliated with UC Berkeley and UCLA until 1960, when UC San Diego was founded with Scripps Ocea...