Marine explorer and GSO professor Robert Ballard is looking back at his 50-year career of discovery by publishing a memoir, Into the Deep, recounting the backstories of many of his greatest adventures.
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Read the first in a series of posts from GSO Ph.D. candidate Diana Fontaine who’s reporting from the North Atlantic about her experience working on the NASA EXPORTS project.
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Meet recent GSO graduate Nina Santos, whose research examines the competition between two important fisheries species in Narragansett Bay and southern Rhode Island — black sea bass the Atlantic cod.
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The Northwest Passage Project, based at the URI Graduate School of Oceanography, is pleased to announce the documentary film “Frozen Obsession” is being broadcast and streamed on PBS.
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A northward shift in Gulf Stream preceded rapid warming of the Northwest Atlantic Shelf according to new research led by URIGSO scientists.
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April 22 is Earth Day! Check out the list that GSO has compiled of different ways you can take part in this year’s celebration.
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A research team led by Saildrone with severa partners including GSO announced a new mission, partially funded by a $1.7 million grant from Google.org, which will use Saildrone Explorer uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs) to conduct oceanographic missions to gain unprecedented insight into the impact of the Gulf Stream on weather and climate.
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There are now seven final candidate names for the new National Science Foundation-owned Regional Class Research Vessel to homeport at the URI Narragansett Bay Campus.
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The University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography asked aspiring K-12 student artists across Rhode Island a simple question: What is your ocean story? The result was hundreds of artistic submissions from all ages to the “Ocean View Exhibition and Youth Art Competition,” celebrating the 60th anniversary of GSO’s founding.
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Despite the pandemic, the URI GSO offered the SURFO (Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Oceanography) program in summer 2020. Andria Miller and the GSO team she worked with reflect on the experience and the benefits of the program.
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