EditorialRachel Clemesha, who studies coastal clouds as a project scientist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, points at her cloud chart in La Jolla, Calif., Aug. 25, 2022. (Nina Riggio/The New York Times)
EditorialKurt Korte, a professional surf forecaster, whose job blends oceanography, meteorology and stoke, at Tsurigasaki Beach in Ichinomiya, Japan on July 25, 2021. (James Hill/The New York Times)
EditorialKurt Korte, a professional surf forecaster, whose job blends oceanography, meteorology and stoke, at Tsurigasaki Beach in Ichinomiya, Japan on July 25, 2021. (James Hill/The New York Times)
EditorialKara Wiggin, a doctoral student at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, pulls up a cage containing fabric swatches in San Diego, Calif., Jan. 31, 2020. (Alex Welsh/The New York Times)