A worldwide study on the impacts of bottom trawling, which accounts for a quarter of the world’s seafood harvest and can negatively affect marine ecosystems, has found that seabeds are in good health where trawl fisheries are sustainably managed.
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“Having that MBA was really handy because I can now have elevated conversations with my teammates and work out actual business strategy related to equipment and service.” Colleen Peters (M.O. & M.B.A. 2019), who now works at Saildrone, earned her “Blue MBA” which enhanced her existing science background while also giving her the financial and economic know-how to advance her career in a growing commercial industry.
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“Our research has shown that the biggest threat to eelgrass is the excess nitrogen coming from human sources—mainly wastewater treatment plants.” Fred Short (M.S. 1976) founded SeagrassNet, the Global Seagrass Monitoring Network which is now used at 139 sites on every continent except Antarctica (where seagrass has yet to be found).
Continue reading "Fred Short (alum)"The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) selected Asta Habtemichael, a Ph.D. student at GSO, for induction to its Future Leaders Society.
Continue reading "GSO student to be inducted into AAC&U Future Leaders Society"GSO Alum Fund Student Awards are given out twice a year to GSO students for research supplies, educational experiences, and conference travel. Funds are available through the generosity of GSO alums and others who contribute to the RhodyNow fund for GSO. The students submit online applications via the GSO webpage that are reviewed by a panel […]
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Three Saildrones launched from Newport, R.I., will spend the next six months in the Gulf Stream collecting ocean data to improve weather forecasting and reduce uncertainties in how much carbon dioxide the ocean absorbs.
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Judy Yaqin Li May (Ph.D. 1996) is a research ecologist at the NOAA Fisheries Milford Laboratory and will be retiring after 16 years of federal service. Judy’s research examines the variability in coastal environments over time and how this variability affects the phytoplankton at the base of the food web.
Continue reading "Judy Yaqin Li (alum)"GSO alum Olivia Ahern’s (Ph.D. ’21) new paper on the diverse microbiome of diatoms is the culmination of over a decade’s worth of oceanographic research.
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New GSO research concludes that different types of phytoplankton will react differently to increasing ocean temperatures resulting from the changing climate.
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GSO professor Roxanne Beinart is one of the leaders of the Aquatic Symbiosis Genomics Project, which seeks to understand how aquatic species thrive together.
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