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Celebrating the 2022 graduates

Entrance of an academic building, garden flowers in the foreground, and the building sign reads "Ocean Science and Exploration Center."

The GSO community is gearing up to celebrate 27 new degree recipients, first at the Annual GSO Shirting Ceremony then at the Graduate School Commencement Ceremony.

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Tagged as:Alumni commencement Robert Ballard Shirting Ceremony

GSO student Victoria Fulfer awarded Fulbright grant

Victoria Fulfer, a Ph.D. student at the URI Graduate school of Oceanography, has been awarded a 2022-2023 Fulbright U.S. Student Program Research Award to fund her work in Nha Trang, Vietnam. 

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Tagged as:Fulbright J.P. Walsh Narragansett Bay plastic Victoria Fulfer

Ocean explorer Robert Ballard will deliver URI commencement address

Robert Ballard standing next to a podium with an image of the Earth is projected on a screen behind him.

Ocean explorer and GSO professor Robert Ballard will deliver the keynote address for URI’s 136th Undergraduate Commencement from aboard his ship, the E/V Nautilus.

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Tagged as:Bay Campus master plan Inner Space Center Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute (OECI) Ocean Exploration Trust Robert Ballard

Life under pressure: URI faculty, students research microbes in Puerto Rico Trench

How does life exist far beneath the ocean floor in one of the deepest places on Earth? A group of scientists and students are in waters off Puerto Rico to shed more light on that question.

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Tagged as:Biological Oceanography microbes Steven D'Hondt

Students build a small boat for a big voyage

A small uncrewed boat at sea under blue skies.

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

Shows Breda Moyer at work at GSO

GSO Profiles of GSO Scientific Research Grant Assistant Brenda Moyer

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Tagged as:Brenda Moyer GSO Profiles Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute (OECI) oceanography Scientific Research Grant Assistant (SRGA)

GSO at the 2022 Ocean Sciences Meeting

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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The things we do for science: A trek to the Southern Ocean

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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Tagged as:Ali Johnson Antarctica climate Climate Change Diana Fontaine Kathleen Donohue Physical Oceanography Southern Ocean

Reed announces $250,000 to help keep URI’s Narragansett Bay Campus shoreline shipshape

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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Tagged as:Marc Parlange Narragansett Dawn Paula Bontempi R/V Endeavor Senator Jack Reed

GSO Profiles-GSO marine educator Maryann Scholl

Shows marine educator Maryann Scholl at work

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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Tagged as:GSO Profiles JASON Project Maryann Scholl Narragansett Bay Classroom Public Engagement South Ferry history

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