Latest Stories

• Meet the 2025 SURFOs - Welcome the 6 undergraduate STEM students working with the GSO community on research experiences this summer.
• URI student integrates modern environmental science with generations of Indigenous knowledge - Earning Switzer Environmental Fellowship enables oceanography student to continue research while honoring Indigenous heritage
• New autonomous vehicle helps advance understanding of the deep sea and its critical minerals - Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute, Orpheus Ocean, and Federal agencies partner on new deep sea technology
• URI students discover historic shipwrecks - A team of eight students, scientists, and engineers from the University of Rhode Island recently returned from the first survey of known shipwrecks in the Lake Ontario National Marine Sanctuary.

Media Coverage

• Advocating for fisheries in Washington, DC - June 24, 2025 - Warwick Beacon
• URI oceanographer says Trump cuts to science will cause long-term harm. Here’s why - June 24, 2025 - The Providence Journal
• 6 Ways You Can Control Microplastics From Getting Into Your Food - June 9, 2025 - Huffington Post
• NK High chemistry teacher Richard Sweetman climbs aboard one of final rides of University of Rhode Island research vessel - June 5, 2025 - South County Independent
• New phase of deep-sea research on fragile organisms using novel technology begins for URI professor - June 2, 2025 - Rhody Today

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