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 […]

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 […]

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 […]