On September 24, about 2,000 guests—among them local residents, URI undergrads and alumni—enjoyed a beautiful fall day on the Narragansett Bay Campus filled with exhibits, demonstrations and attractions centered on marine exploration, discovery, science and management. They also engaged in behind-the-scenes tours, interactive experiences and conversations with a wide variety of ocean experts. It’s fair to say GSO made a big splash with one and all.
By Hugh Markey; photos courtesy of Ocean Exploration Trust Scientists, researchers and engineers aboard exploration vessel (E/V) Nautilus successfully demonstrated that autonomous uncrewed systems can work collaboratively during a scientific mission. This latest development in technologies and methods will prove to be a “force-multiplier” for future ocean exploration. Expedition leader Jason Fahy from URI’s GSO […]
Continue reading "Orchestration"By Alexander Castro Butterflies! Beetles! Ants, moths, cockroaches and other grubs! Lauren Decker thought bugs would be her life’s work. She told her first grade teacher she’d be an entomologist one day. Childhood fantasies tend to lack in specifics, however, and Decker’s dreams of entomology were slowly squelched. By the time she arrived at the […]
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Updates about former students of the School
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Continue reading "Happenings"In the winter and spring, the Pier and Pumphouse Replacement project became highly visible along the shore of the Narragansett Bay Campus as the contractor moved a barge and crane into place. Temporary indicator piles were driven in December and January. A month later, they were re-struck with the driving hammer and all of them […]
Continue reading "Construction Update"Hongjie Wang, Assistant Professor of Oceanography By Alexander Castro Hongjie Wang grew up near the Yellow River, the sixth largest river in the world, but even that immensity didn’t prepare her for the ocean. Upon reaching the Pacific’s shores for the first time as an undergrad, she says: “I went to the beach. [And I […]
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