By Betty-Jo Cugini and Peter Hanlon In the summer of 2020, GSO Dean Bruce Corliss will take one final look out of his office window across a sweeping view of Narragansett Bay’s West Passage, and place an envelope on the top of his desk. Before he steps down from his position of eight years, […]
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Vessel Construction Progress
R/V Resolution Week ending: 6 December 2019 Source: OSU College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences; RCRV Project Field Office Weekly Report At-a-glance… Selected Highlights The centerboard system passed a Factory Acceptance Test on 22 November 2019. A schedule of projected Factory Acceptance Tests for the ocean winch, portable winch, hydro winch, stern A-frame, portable […]
Continue reading "Vessel Construction Progress"Inner Space Center Collaborates with BBC
GSO’s Inner Space Center collaborates with BBC to bring “Blue Planet” to life. In late March, 2019, the Inner Space Center (ISC) provided telepresence and live video production support for the British Broadcasting Corporation’s (BBC) “Blue Planet Live.” The week-long television series that followed up on the award-winning series “Blue Planet II” celebrates marine life […]
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From the Desk of Dean Bruce Corliss Innovation is at the core of what we do in oceanography and science in general. New analytical tools and procedures create opportunities for observations and research that were previously not possible. New questions posed by researchers can propel a particular field in pioneering directions. One of the most […]
Continue reading "Dean’s Message"Welcome New Alumni
A time-honored tradition at GSO is to present a coveted T-shirt to each degree recipient who can attend the year-end “Shirting Ceremony.” These 11 members of the 2019 graduating class show off their just reward. Degrees Awarded in 2019 Master of Oceanography Berta Borneo (David Smith) Casey Danhauser (David Smith) Kyle Griebel (John King) Andrew […]
Continue reading "Welcome New Alumni"First International M.O. Alumna
In the Spring of 2019, Berta Borneo became the first international student to earn a Master of Oceanography (M.O.) degree from GSO. Despite growing up far from the beach, in a small village in East Java, Indonesia, Borneo’s fascination with the ocean led her to enroll at GSO, where her studies focused on microplastic and […]
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Despite being the most prominent feature on Earth, the ocean is still a mystery in many ways. Some of the uncertainty surrounding the ocean is compounded by the scientific publishing process, as the body of peer-reviewed knowledge about the ocean often reaches only a tiny percentage of the public due to paywalled publication sites and […]
Continue reading "Talking Shop"Writing the Book on Seagrass
Behind New Hampshire’s modest 19 miles of Atlantic Ocean coastline lies the Great Bay Estuary and its tidal rivers. Stretching for 235 miles and lined with seagrass, it’s an ideal home base for world-renowned seagrass ecologist Dr. Fred Short. The GSO alum (M.S. 1976) landed at the University of New Hampshire after receiving his doctorate […]
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Updates from former students of the School.
Continue reading "Alumni News and Notes"NOAA Selects URI to Join Cooperative Institute for the North Atlantic Region
URI becomes one of eight leading research institutions to participate in NOAA’s Cooperative Institute for the North Atlantic Region. The Institute will focus on ecosystem management to advance understanding of climate change.
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