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Dean of URI’s Graduate School of Oceanography addresses public, media as part of NASA’s Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Independent Study team

GSO’s dean, Paula Bontempi, part of NASA team’s first public discussion and a follow-up media teleconference.

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Tagged as:NASA Paula Bontempi space science

URI doctoral oceanography student playing key role in microplastics research as part of ongoing The Ocean Race

URI GSO doctoral student Victoria Fulfer is analyzing samples collected around the world during The Ocean Race for microplastics.

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Tagged as:microplastics Steven D'Hondt Victoria Fulfer

New York City is sinking, and it’s not alone

GSO scientists found that New York City, just one of many growing coastal cities all over the world that is observed to be subsiding, is sinking at a rate of 1 to 4 millimeters per year.

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Tagged as:Matt Wei pei-chin wu Steven D'Hondt

URI oceanography doctoral graduate awarded postdoctoral fellowship

Xiaozhuo Wei will continue his research on a Barr Foundation Fellowship from the California Institute of Technology.

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GSO Ph.D. candidate awarded research fellowship from National Science Foundation

Bryan Plankenhorn, who is pursuing a Ph.D. in oceanography at GSO, has been awarded a prestigious fellowship through the NSF.

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URI iceberg researcher lands NSF CAREER grant

Photo of Mingxi Zhou.

URIGSO assistant professor and ocean robotics researcher Mingxi Zhou has received a National Science Foundation CAREER grant.

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Tagged as:Mingxi Zhou robotics

GSO student one of nine at URI to be awarded prestigious NASA R.I. Space Grant

GSO student Katie Roche named recipient of NASA R.I. Space Grant that will enable her to do NASA-related research.

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For Warwick’s Sarah Cook, URI GSO’s online Master of Oceanography degree proved the perfect environment

For her final project, GSO online Master of Oceanography grad Sarah Cook imagined a marina management training course that was more environmentally conscious.

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Tagged as:commencement sarah cook

Celebrating the Spring 2023 GSO graduates

The GSO community is gearing up to celebrate 30 new degree recipients, first at the Annual GSO Shirting Ceremony then at the Graduate School Commencement Ceremony.

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Ribbon-cutting for new pier at URI’s Narragansett Bay Campus ushers in new era

The URI community joined university and elected officials at the Bay Campus for a ribbon-cutting of the new pier.

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Tagged as:Blue Economy campus renewal Paula Bontempi Senator Jack Reed

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