Speaker Dr. Harriet Lau, Assistant Professor, Brown University Evolving Solid Earth Dynamics as a Trigger for the Mid Pleistocene Transition Abstract Milankovitch cycles—orbital modulations in Earth’s insolation—are thought to pace ice ages over the last 2.6 million years, with dominant periods associated with changes in precession (~20,000 years) and obliquity (~40,000 years). While Milankovitch cycles […]
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2025 Knauss Marine Policy Fellowships
Applications are being accepted now through February 15, 2024, by 5 p.m. EST. Rhode Island applications are due to the Rhode Island Sea Grant (RISG) office. All applications must be submitted through the eSeaGrant web platform. RISG will be hosting three information sessions to provide information on fellowship details, accessing eSeaGrant and developing a fellowship […]
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“A microfossil history from the bottom of the sea: sharks, fish, mass extinctions, and 85 million years of global change” Speaker: Dr. Elizabeth Sibert, Assistant Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institutione Abstract Fish are the most diverse group of vertebrates on the planet today, and the type and abundance of fish present in the marine ecosystem […]
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“Magmatism Controls Global Oceanic Transform Fault Topography” Speaker: Dr. Xiaochuan Tian, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Boston College Abstract Oceanic transform faults are fundamental features of plate tectonics, accommodating strike-slip motion between two adjacent mid-ocean ridge segments. The continuations of these faults form tectonically inactive fracture zones, creating the longest ‘scars’ on the Earth’s surface. Yet, despite […]
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July 31, 2023 — OSEC 202, 11 a.m. Dr. Kathrin Busch, Bedford Institute of Oceanography Deep-sea coral and sponge microbiomes in an ecosystem context– key aspects, spatio-temporal predictions, management, and technology development Abstract Symbioses between microbes and invertebrates are emerging as key drivers of ecosystem health and services. Deep-sea corals and sponges can harbour dense […]
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“Slow slip events in the Mexican subduction zone and their importance in the seismic cycle” Speaker: Dr. Mathilde Radiguet, ISTerre, Grenoble, France Abstract Active faults in the Earth build up tectonic stress during the interseismic period and release it in brutal earthquakes via rapid seismic slip. Improvements in earth observations over the last two decades […]
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Aboard GSO, Spring 2023 New graduates receive diplomas, incoming students match up with major professors, dormant flowers and trees come alive: spring always brings change to the Narragansett Bay Campus. This spring, however, ushers in more than the usual cycles. Construction is complete on the new Bay Campus pier, future home to the regional class […]
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By Ellen Liberman It took $3 billion dollars, 13 years and a score of universities and research centers in six countries to sequence nearly the entire human genome. In April 2003, the international consortium piloting the effort announced that it had successfully accounted for 92% of the 3.2 billion base pairs that make up a […]
Continue reading "Oceanography, Meet Big Data"Fisheries’ Future
By Lauren Thacker Changing marine habitats and populations, the economics of commercial fishing, and the livelihood and tradition of fishing communities: this is a present-day story of the relationship between the ocean and the people who live and work by its waters, and the efforts to make that relationship sustainable. A huge aspect of those […]
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Meet (again) Rob Pockalny as he assumes the duties of associate dean By Alexander Castro It’s 1975, and Steven Spielberg’s Jaws has inaugurated a shark trend with gallons of fresh blood. Like many a middle-schooler, Rob Pockalny is fascinated by the fearsome fish, and opts for sharks as the subject for his term paper. Pockalny […]
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