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• URI to join State Department grant to help feed the future in fisheries - Fisheries professor joined by Coastal Institute researcher looking at how to curb illegal, unregulated, and unreported fishing worldwide
• In Memoriam: H. Thomas Rossby (1937–2026) - In the summer 1963, Tom Rossby, then a young engineer, took on a question from one of the most influential pioneers in physical oceanography, Hank Stommel: Why does cold water sink in only a few polar regions yet rise slowly almost everywhere else? Rossby heated a tank of water unevenly from below. The water rose […]
• GSO alum supports URI Ocean Engineering study on underwater sound in the Arctic - Luis Pomales Velázquez, Ph.D. ’26, will contribute to the project as a postdoctoral researcher
• URI junior on board with research - Experiential learning opportunities abound for students willing to make the first step

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• Why Crozet: Like a Freight Train, Isabel Climbs - September 4, 2026 - Crozet Gazette
• Inside the Facility Advancing Ocean Robotics Research - August 26, 2026 - Lab Design News
• Rhode Island Predicts Coastal Storm Impacts with Real-Time GIS Tool - August 23, 2026 - esri
• How AI is Reshaping Ocean Science - August 20, 2026 - New Bedford Light
• How volunteers and researchers at URI work together to better understand our environment - August 10, 2026 - RI Current

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