Please let us know if you’d be willing to featured in the new Get to Know GSO video series! For an example see the video below featuring Ph.D. student Ali Johnson. We’ll ask you a series of simple questions about your work, what motivates you, and what you like to do outside of your time […]
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Celebrating the 2022 graduates
The GSO community is gearing up to celebrate 27 new degree recipients, first at the Annual GSO Shirting Ceremony then at the Graduate School Commencement Ceremony.
Continue reading "Celebrating the 2022 graduates"GSO student Victoria Fulfer awarded Fulbright grant
Victoria Fulfer, a Ph.D. student at the URI Graduate school of Oceanography, has been awarded a 2022-2023 Fulbright U.S. Student Program Research Award to fund her work in Nha Trang, Vietnam.
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Ocean explorer and GSO professor Robert Ballard will deliver the keynote address for URI’s 136th Undergraduate Commencement from aboard his ship, the E/V Nautilus.
Continue reading "Ocean explorer Robert Ballard will deliver URI commencement address"Life under pressure: URI faculty, students research microbes in Puerto Rico Trench
How does life exist far beneath the ocean floor in one of the deepest places on Earth? A group of scientists and students are in waters off Puerto Rico to shed more light on that question.
Continue reading "Life under pressure: URI faculty, students research microbes in Puerto Rico Trench"Students build a small boat for a big voyage
GSO and the Central Falls School District team up to build and launch a 5-foot long, uncrewed miniboat in the Atlantic.
Continue reading "Students build a small boat for a big voyage"Student-Alum Networking Seminar – Erin Markham – “Just Over the Bridge: Mapping the Path to a Career in Hydrographic Survey”
Erin Markham received her M.S. from GSO in 2015, and was a chemical oceanography student with Rainer Lohmann. She is now a hydrographer at Leidos in Newport, R.I. In this seminar, titled “Just Over the Bridge: Mapping the Path to a Career in Hydrographic Survey,” she discusses her academic and career path.
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Learn how you can connect with GSO faculty, students and staff at the 2022 Ocean Sciences Meeting, a fully virtual event.
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GSO researchers returned from an eventful two-month expedition to better understand the movement of heat across the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, the largest current in the world’s ocean.
Continue reading "The things we do for science: A trek to the Southern Ocean"Reed announces $250,000 to help keep URI’s Narragansett Bay Campus shoreline shipshape
U.S. Senator Jack Reed announced $250,000 in new federal funding to initiate a shoreline protection project at the University of Rhode Island’s Bay Campus.
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