The next day from 7:30 a.m. to noon, surfers, scientists, cancer survivors and other community members will participate in the Legends of Surfing competition near Scripps Pier in La Jolla Shores.<\/p>\n
Find out more at mcclegends.ucsd.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n Advocates for lowering speed limit gather at La Jolla Boulevard<\/p>\n Local advocates of lowering the speed limit on La Jolla Boulevard using a state law the San Diego City Council adopted held a demonstration along the street last week.<\/p>\n Earlier this year, the council voted to adopt Assembly Bill 43 citywide<\/a>, starting with busy street segments in select neighborhoods including Pacific Beach and Mission Beach. The law gives local governments authority to reduce speed limits on roads contiguous to a business district and others deemed particularly unsafe for pedestrians and bicyclists.<\/p>\n Advocates for reducing the speed limit on La Jolla Boulevard<\/a> from 35 mph using that law gathered there with signs and petitions Aug. 31.<\/p>\n \u201cOur intent was simple \u2014 to send a clear and urgent message that our current speed limits are unsafe for our community,\u201d said participant and Bird Rock resident Harry Bubbins, who is a board member of the La Jolla Community Planning Association. \u201cWith schools back in session and a holiday weekend [for Labor Day, Sept. 1] bringing hundreds more families to the beach, our streets become a dangerous mix of excited children, pedestrians and fast-moving cars. Our message is that the safety of our residents, especially our kids and seniors, must be the top priority. Lower the speed limit on La Jolla Boulevard. \u2026 We want to see official action before another crash occurs, not after.\u201d<\/p>\n The petitions are intended to be delivered to appropriate city departments for consideration.<\/p>\n UCSD graduate Megan McArthur retires from NASA\u2019s astronaut corps<\/p>\n UC San Diego graduate Megan McArthur has retired from NASA\u2019s astronaut corps after a long career in which she traveled into space twice and became the first woman to pilot the SpaceX Dragon reusable spacecraft.<\/p>\n McArthur, 54, finished her career Aug. 29 after nearly 25 years at the space agency, NASA said. In recent years, she had been serving as chief science officer at Space Center Houston.<\/p>\n McArthur was chosen for astronaut training in July 2000, when she was working on a doctorate in oceanography at UCSD\u2019s Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla. She was awarded her doctorate two years later.<\/p>\n She steadily rose up the ranks and made her first trip into space in 2009 as a mission specialist aboard the space shuttle Atlantis.\u00a0Her second flight occurred in 2021 when she piloted herself and a crew on the Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station. McArthur returned home about 200 days later.\u00a0\u2014 The San Diego Union-Tribune<\/p>\n SIO scientist named director of marine resource observation program<\/p>\n UC San Diego\u2019s Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla has named Mark Gold as the new director of California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations<\/a>, the oceanographic and marine ecosystem monitoring and research program also known as CalCOFI.<\/p>\n CalCOFI, the longest-running program of its kind in the United States, is managed jointly by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\u2019s National Marine Fisheries Service, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and Scripps Oceanography. The program collects data to assess and manage major fisheries off the California coast, surveying marine life and monitoring indicators of ocean and environmental change.<\/p>\n CalCOFI is credited with helping to assess the accuracy of ocean and weather models, understand El Ni\u00f1o and La Ni\u00f1a fluctuations, support sustainable management of fishing and aquaculture, aid in the siting and development of offshore renewable energy, track ocean acidification and marine heat waves and more.<\/p>\n Salk scientists study post-drought plant recovery<\/p>\n In studying how a small flowering plant recovers from a drought, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla believe their findings could help them strategize how to make crops more resilient.<\/p>\n The plant, Arabidopsis thaliana, showed a response called drought recovery-induced immunity \u2014 a process in which the plant\u2019s immune system protects it from pathogens rather than the plant focusing on an immediate return to growth upon receiving water again. The same response occurred in wild and domesticated tomatoes.<\/p>\n![\"Astronaut](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/sut-l-megan-mcarthur-01.jpg\")
Astronaut Megan McArthur made two space missions for NASA. (NASA)<\/p>\n![\"Mark](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ljl-l-mark-gold.jpg\")
Mark Gold is the new director of California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations. (Jeff Dillon)<\/p>\n