The air we breathe in our homes, schools and workplaces can be polluted with harmful PFAS chemicals, according to a new study by GSO scientists.
Continue reading "We’re breathing PFAS: URI-led study finds harmful forever chemicals in indoor air"
Tropical Storm Henri was the perfect opportunity for researchers at GSO and the University of Rhode Island to test out the real-time storm modeling capabilities of the Rhode Island Coastal Hazards, Analysis, and Modeling Prediction (RICHAMP) system.
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The nightly trek of small marine animals from the ocean depths to the surface has been called the largest migration on Earth, and new research led by GSO’s Melissa Omand finds that some zooplankton swim up and down in response to shifts in light due to cloud cover as well.
Continue reading "Passing clouds cause some marine animals to make mini-migrations"“We’re also seeing that hurricanes are intensifying more rapidly, going from a category 1 to a category 3 or 4 within a day or two. And that’s a big concern for forecasters who want to issue hurricane warnings in advance of landfall.” Hurricane forecasting models are getting better at predicting hurricanes, thanks largely to professor Isaac Ginis’s work.
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“Her mission…is to protect sharks from their primary predator — humans.” Lauren Romeiro (M.O. 2017) is a marine scientist and well-respected photographer & cinematographer focusing on the conservation of sharks in the Northwest Atlantic.
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GSO alum Yackar Mauzole discusses her path throughout higher education to becoming an oceanographer and touches on some of the hardships she faced as a student and now as an early career researcher.
Continue reading "Student-Alum Networking Seminar – Yackar Mauzole – “A Journey to Become an Oceanographer: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”"
Read the third and final post from GSO Ph.D. candidate Diana Fontaine about her experience working on the NASA EXPORTS project in the North Atlantic.
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The National Science Foundation’s new Regional Class Research Vessel that will soon call the University of Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay Campus home has a name: Narragansett Dawn.
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GSO Ph.D. student Ali Johnson writes about, and shares photos from, a recent research cruise in the Gulf of Mexico with four other GSO scientists as part of an ongoing study on the Loop Current.
A team of five GSO scientists
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Read the second in a series of posts from GSO Ph.D. candidate Diana Fontaine who’s reporting from the North Atlantic about her experience working on the NASA EXPORTS project.
Continue reading "Fitting in science between the roaring waves and blustery wind"