These changes are designed to strengthen collaboration, amplify impact, and honor the legacy of these extraordinary units.
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The most recent ranking, released Monday, also places the institution as the 34th-best public university nationally.
Continue reading "URI once again ranked No. 1 public university in New England, among nation’s best by Wall Street Journal"
AGU Fellows are recognized for their scientific eminence, demonstrated through breakthroughs, discoveries or innovations that advance the Earth and space sciences
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On September 6th, 2025, alumni, faculty, students, staff and friends of GSO gathered to honor the legacy of the late Dr. John Knauss, visionary marine scientist and founding dean of GSO, whose 100th birthday would have been on September 1, 2025.
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A shared designation marks a long-term partnership to protect land, water, and livelihoods
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Meet alum Gaby Espino, M.O. ’24, Seafloor Mapper and Navigator of Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) aboard the E/V Nautilus
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URI Professor Rebecca Robinson is studying freshened water extracted from unprecedented scientific ocean drilling operation
Continue reading "How did freshened water end up beneath the seafloor? Sediment collected by scientists may reveal answers"
Bonney operated the ROV Rhody on May 28 to remotely conduct a photogrammetry survey of the steamship Iona, which sank in Lake Ontario 1912.
Continue reading "While battling back from paralyzing accident, URI student searches for shipwrecks"
GSO researchers are investigating how tectonic activity and human impacts shape salt marsh geomorphology and carbon dynamics.
Continue reading "Alaskan salt marshes offer insight to understudied, but dynamic environments "
Novel isotope analysis methods develpped at GSO are reshaping our understanding of how life on coral reefs is sustained
Continue reading "New study reveals coral reef food webs are more siloed and vulnerable than previously understood"