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Exploring how bacteria and deep-sea life survive together

Photo of Roxanne Beinart.

GSO Assistant Professor Roxanne Beinart was awarded $1.3 million to continue her work in researching deep-sea animals and their bacterial symbionts.

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Tagged as:National Science Foundation Pacific Ocean Roxanne Beinart symbiosis

URI STEEP science effort responding to ‘forever’ PFAS chemical pollution renewed for $8.1 million for another 5 years

The STEEP program, one of the longer running PFAS science efforts in the country, studies pollution and examines potential research-based solutions alongside community partners.

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Tagged as:PFAS Rainer Lohmann STEEP

Fantastic Bioplastic

What if there was a way to avoid the problem of plastic pollution while still reaping the benefits of a networked ocean? A group co-led by GSO’s Melissa Omand is about to put their biodegradable bioplastic to the test.

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Tagged as:Blue Economy Melissa Omand plastic

GSO’s Brice Loose heads to Norway on a Fulbright Fellowship

The oceanography professor and his family have headed to Norway this fall, where he’ll use a Fulbright Award to study greenhouse gasses beneath the sea ice in the changing Arctic.

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University of Rhode Island kicks off “Vote Yes on 1” bond campaign

Passage of Question 1 will provide $100 million in bonds for much needed improvements to the University’s globally known Narragansett Bay Campus, the leader of Rhode Island’s ocean economy.

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Tagged as:Bay Campus master plan

SURFO fellowship welcomes prospective oceanographers

For his Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Oceanography (SURFO) at GSO, Arnaldo Díaz-Martínez joined an active research project working on the base of the marine food web in Narragansett Bay.

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Tagged as:Andria Miller plankton SURFO Program Susanne Menden-Deuer

GSO to host Science Saturday on Sept. 24.

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All are invited to the URI Narragansett Bay Campus to learn the latest in ocean exploration, discovery, science and conservation.

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Tagged as:Paula Bontempi Science Saturday

Rainer Lohmann named a Fulbright Arctic Initiative Scholar

On the Faroe Islands, GSO professor Rainer Lohmann, recipient of a prestigious Fulbright Arctic Initiative Award, has set out to better understand the full exposure of the local population to PFAS contaminants.

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Tagged as:Fulbright PFAS Rainer Lohmann

GSO student Asta Habtemichael named a Switzer Environmental Fellow

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Asta Habtemichael, a Ph.D. candidate at GSO, was recently chosen as one of 20 environmental scholars to receive a Switzer Environmental Fellowship.

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Tagged as:Asta Habtemichael PFAS Switzer Fellowship

Susanne Menden-Deuer elected next ASLO president

GSO professor Susanne Menden-Deuer has been elected as the next president of the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography.

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