It was the early 2000s in Zanzibar, and the intertidal zones were under stress. For ages, the women of Fumba Peninsula had waded into the shallow waters of the Menai Bay Conservation Area to collect oysters and cockles to sell and to feed their families. But overfishing of the deeper waters led to poverty, […]

Recognition of GSO students, faculty and alumni from the scientific community for their achievements and excellence

  When Mingxi Zhou first learned about the field of marine robotics as a graduate student in Newfoundland, he was intrigued. He had already studied micro-electronics manufacturing in China and was searching for an emerging robotics discipline to pursue. The more he learned about autonomous underwater vehicles and ocean instruments, the more he knew he […]

In a unique experience, undergraduates conduct and communicate ocean science. “Blue skies and whales, baby!” exclaimed Nick Housman, a marine biology major at URI. The undergraduate student in URI’s Honors Program made this statement each morning as he was sailing onboard the Research Vessel (R/V) Endeavor as a participant in this year’s Coast and Shelf […]

  The Antarctic Peninsula is warming significantly faster than the global average, which is already leading to profound changes to the region’s food web.   In February, GSO professor Kelton McMahon participated in an Antarctic research cruise as part of a multi-year project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The goal: to study how […]