GSO and the Central Falls School District team up to build and launch a 5-foot long, uncrewed miniboat in the Atlantic.
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GSO Profiles – Scientific Research Grant Assistant Brenda Moyer
GSO Profiles of GSO Scientific Research Grant Assistant Brenda Moyer
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Learn how you can connect with GSO faculty, students and staff at the 2022 Ocean Sciences Meeting, a fully virtual event.
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GSO researchers returned from an eventful two-month expedition to better understand the movement of heat across the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, the largest current in the world’s ocean.
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U.S. Senator Jack Reed announced $250,000 in new federal funding to initiate a shoreline protection project at the University of Rhode Island’s Bay Campus.
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Marine educator Maryann Scholl is retiring after 22 years at GSO. She is part of Public Engagement and has worked with the JASON Project, Ri Teacher at Sea, and other projects.
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A worldwide study on the impacts of bottom trawling, which accounts for a quarter of the world’s seafood harvest and can negatively affect marine ecosystems, has found that seabeds are in good health where trawl fisheries are sustainably managed.
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Funding the Regional Class Research Vessels By James Yoder James Yoder, M.S. ’74, Ph.D. ’79, is an emeritus professor of oceanography and a fellow of The Oceanography Society. He was vice president for academic programs and dean at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. At GSO, Yoder was a faculty member from 1989 to 2005 and […]
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The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) selected Asta Habtemichael, a Ph.D. student at GSO, for induction to its Future Leaders Society.
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Three Saildrones launched from Newport, R.I., will spend the next six months in the Gulf Stream collecting ocean data to improve weather forecasting and reduce uncertainties in how much carbon dioxide the ocean absorbs.
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