GSO is holding a national competition to select a new name for a National Science Foundation-owned Regional Class Research Vessel which will homeport at the URI Narragansett Bay Campus.
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GSO student Anna Robuck found high levels of the PFAS in seabirds from offshore Massachusetts and coastal Rhode Island and North Carolina.
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Experts from the URI Graduate School of Oceanography will participate in the next edition of The Ocean Race Summits.
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Journalist Ian Urbina will share many of his stories of lawlessness at sea at this year’s Charles and Marie Fish Lecture, hosted by the URI Graduate School of Oceanography.
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An international team discovered a previously unrecognized ocean current that transports water to one of the world’s largest “waterfalls” in the North Atlantic Ocean: the Faroe Bank Channel Overflow into the deep North Atlantic.
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In a new study, researchers reveal that given the right food in the right laboratory conditions, microbes collected from sediment as old as 100 million years can revive and multiply, even after laying dormant since large dinosaurs prowled the planet.
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A statement from URI Graduate School of Oceanography Dean Bruce Corliss.
Continue reading "Black Lives Matter: A GSO Perspective"Watch the 2020 Graduate School Recognition, including remarks from GSO Dean Bruce Corliss, Rhode Island Governor Gina M. Raimondo, Senator Jack Reed and others.
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URI has appointed NASA scientist Paula S. Bontempi as dean of the Graduate School of Oceanography. Bontempi is an alumna of GSO and a biological oceanographer for more than 25 years.
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Sarah Nickford and Laura Glastra, two University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography students have been awarded Graduate Student Fellowships from the NASA Rhode Island Space Grant Consortium.
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