“If there was anything about that that was important, it's that female students and faculty could see that a woman could be a director at Scripps,” Leinen said. In 2013, there were 2,872 students in UC San Diego undergraduate courses taught by Scripps professors. “She’s completed the evolution of Scripps’ perspective to see itself as a full part of the educational program at UC San Diego,” Constable said. In 2015, ocean research organizations successfully got the ocean recognized in negotiation text after more than 20 years of exclusion. The force of the united ocean research community channeled through the pavilion appears to have increased the profile of the ocean further in negotiations.