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.
Continue reading "GSO professor part of a worldwide study on impacts of bottom trawling on health of seabeds"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 […]
Continue reading "Narragansett Dawn, An Origin Story"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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GSO Profile of Kathleen Beck who is retiring as the GSO Dean’s Executive Assistant. She has worked at GSO for 23 years.
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GSO alum Olivia Ahern’s (Ph.D. ’21) new paper on the diverse microbiome of diatoms is the culmination of over a decade’s worth of oceanographic research.
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New GSO research concludes that different types of phytoplankton will react differently to increasing ocean temperatures resulting from the changing climate.
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GSO professor Roxanne Beinart is one of the leaders of the Aquatic Symbiosis Genomics Project, which seeks to understand how aquatic species thrive together.
Continue reading "Unwrapping the mysteries of how aquatic species thrive together"Rashid Sumaila, a leading Canadian bioeconomics and marine ecosystem researcher, will speak at the University of Rhode Island’s Honors Colloquium, “Sustaining Our Shores,” Tuesday, Oct. 19 at 7 p.m.
Continue reading "Professor, Canada Research Chair to discuss ‘Infinity Fish: Economics and the Future of Fish and Fisheries’ at URI Honors Colloquium Oct. 19"
Eight Rhode Island educators boarded R/V Endeavor, the University of Rhode Island’s 185-foot research ship, as part of the Rhode Island Teachers at Sea (RITAS) program, to get experience as oceanographers.
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