Complex sentence: Initially intending to study dolphin communication, she was instead tossed out of Scripps for doing "forbidden research" on dolphin communication, largely to do with the Navy's use of dolphins in undersea weapons research at the time.
Split into simpler sentences: Initially intending to study dolphin communication, she was instead tossed out of Scripps for doing "forbidden research" on dolphin communication. The "forbidden" appellation was largely to do with the Navy's use of dolphins in undersea weapons research at the time.