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GSO scientist receives Simons early career award

URI GSO assistant professor Keisuke Inomura is one of four in the nation to receive a 2022 Simons Early Career Investigator in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution Award.

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URI gallery exhibition and youth competition celebrates art and ocean science

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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Tagged as:Public Engagement

Offshore wind turbines not cause of whale strandings, deaths, says URI ocean engineering professor

URI Professor James Miller answered several questions recently about whether wind turbines have an effect on whale safety and health.

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Charting a course: URI professor draws Atlantic data from shipping vessels

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.

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Tagged as:Gulf Stream H. Thomas Rossby Jaime Palter Kathleen A. Donohue

Recent Indonesia visit affirms a half-century of connection

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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URI Blue MBA student combines fascination with sharks, passion for ocean exploration

University of Rhode Island Blue MBA student Christine de Silva will appear in her third Shark Week episode in 2023.

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URI experts discuss the price of convenience: plastics and forever chemicals

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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Tagged as:J.P. Walsh PFAS plastic pollution Rainer Lohmann

Two URI faculty members named AAAS fellows

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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US Navy names future ship for URI alumnus, professor Robert Ballard

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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URI researcher-led study opens oceans of possibilities

Newly developed macromolecular model of phytoplankton from University of Rhode Island professor Keisuke Inomura could have implications for climate research.

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