The Ocean View Art Exhibition and Competition includes artworks from 25 area professional artists and more than 200 artworks by Rhode Island K-12 students.
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URI Professor James Miller answered several questions recently about whether wind turbines have an effect on whale safety and health.
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URI professor emeritus and oceanographer Tom Rossby used the data the Oleander gathered, with colleagues in URI’s GSO, to produce a report on circulation in the Atlantic Ocean.
Continue reading "Charting a course: URI professor draws Atlantic data from shipping vessels"Several URI community members traveled to Indonesia to celebrate a half century of partnership and knowledge exchange in a number of fields, including oceanography.
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University of Rhode Island Blue MBA student Christine de Silva will appear in her third Shark Week episode in 2023.
Continue reading "URI Blue MBA student combines fascination with sharks, passion for ocean exploration"University of Rhode Island Professors J.P. Walsh and Rainer Lohmann discussed the wide-ranging impacts of ocean plastics and PFAS, or “forever chemicals,” in a recent public lecture at the URI Narragansett Bay Campus.
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The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has elected Clinical Professor and GSO alum Sunshine Menezes (Ph.D. 2005) and Professor of Oceanography Steven D’Hondt to the rank of AAAS Fellow.
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The U.S. Navy has announced that a future Pathfinder-class oceanography survey ship will be named in honor of URIGSO Professor Robert Ballard.
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Newly developed macromolecular model of phytoplankton from University of Rhode Island professor Keisuke Inomura could have implications for climate research.
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In a shipment of rocks from about 10,000 feet deep in the Pacific Ocean, University of Rhode Island’s Marine Geological Samples Laboratory discovered a fossil of a shark tooth, which has since been identified as belonging to an ancient megalodon.
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