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.
Continue reading "Unwrapping the mysteries of how aquatic species thrive together"Kristina Walowski, Ph.D. from Western Washington University presents at GSO’s Marine Chemistry, Geology and Geophysics Lecture Series with her lecture titled “Boron recycling in the mantle: Evidence from a global comparison of ocean island basalts.”
Continue reading "GSO Marine Chemistry, Geology and Geophysics Lecture Series: Kristina Walowski, Ph.D."Rashid Sumaila, a leading Canadian bioeconomics and marine ecosystem researcher, will speak at the University of Rhode Island’s Honors Colloquium, “Sustaining Our Shores,” Tuesday, Oct. 19 at 7 p.m.
Continue reading "Professor, Canada Research Chair to discuss ‘Infinity Fish: Economics and the Future of Fish and Fisheries’ at URI Honors Colloquium Oct. 19"
Eight Rhode Island educators boarded R/V Endeavor, the University of Rhode Island’s 185-foot research ship, as part of the Rhode Island Teachers at Sea (RITAS) program, to get experience as oceanographers.
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GSO professor Isaac Ginis is leading a four-year, $1.5 million grant through NOAA to study the effects of sea level rise and how it may exacerbate the impact of extreme weather.
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Lihini Aluwihare, Ph.D., from Scripps Institution of Oceanography presents at GSO’s Marine Chemistry, Geology and Geophysics Lecture Series with her lecture titled
“Peering through new analytical windows at an old problem: marine dissolved organic matter composition and cycling”
All are invited to a family-friendly day at the URI Bay Campus, home to the Graduate School of Oceanography and a world-renowned community of coastal and ocean scientists, engineers, policy experts, educators, and communicators.
Continue reading "URI’s Graduate School of Oceanography to host Science Saturday on Sept. 18."