Asta Habtemichael, a Ph.D. candidate at GSO, was recently chosen as one of 20 environmental scholars to receive a Switzer Environmental Fellowship.
Continue reading "GSO student Asta Habtemichael named a Switzer Environmental Fellow"GSO professor Susanne Menden-Deuer has been elected as the next president of the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography.
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The Coastal Resources Center and its partners have been awarded a $15 million grant to address the social and ecological drivers of illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing in the Pacific Islands region.
Continue reading "URI Coastal Resources Center lands $15 million to help countries, communities tackle unsustainable fishing practices in Pacific Islands region"The URI Narragansett Bay Campus community is excited to welcome this year’s Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships in Oceanography (SURFO) students!
Continue reading "Meet the 2022 SURFOs"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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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"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.
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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.
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GSO and the Central Falls School District team up to build and launch a 5-foot long, uncrewed miniboat in the Atlantic.
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