Robert Monroe is an award-winning journalist and senior science writer at UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography. As a newspaper reporter, Monroe covered city government, the courts, business, science and technology, writing for the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (Ontario, Calif.) and the Daily News of Los Angeles. His stories have won awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, the California Newspaper Publishers Association, and the Associated Press.

In 2000, Monroe jointed the staff of Scripps Institution of Oceanography's Explorations magazine where he reports on scientific developments in oceanography and earth sciences.

Hurricane Sandy blasted the East Coast last month with a fearsome and deadly deluge. A Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego-led team published research a few days later that continues the steady trickle of evidence that flooding like the kind Sandy brought is about to become more common.