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URI gallery exhibition and youth art competition to celebrate GSO’s 60th anniversary

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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Hands-on undergraduate research: COVID-19 can’t stop this!

Three photos of Andria Miller: first deploys her homemade plankton net off of a small wooden pier, then a Secchi disk off of the same pier, then measures chemical water properties using test strips.

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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Antarctic Seals Reveal Worrying Threats to Disappearing Glaciers

Seal in snow with scientific instrument attached to its head.

For the first time, researchers have been able to obtain full-depth glacial meltwater observations in winter, using instruments attached to the heads of seals living near the Pine Island Glacier, in the remote Amundsen Sea in the west of Antarctica.

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Microbes deep beneath seafloor survive on byproducts of radioactive process

A scientist analyzes a sediment core in a lab.

GSO researchers find that microbes living in ancient sediment below the seafloor are sustained primarily by chemicals created by the natural irradiation of water molecules, with implications for the search for life on other worlds.

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New online master’s program will train next generation of leaders in ocean science and technology

GSO is launching a new online master’s program aimed at professionals seeking to enter or advance their careers within the growing ocean economy.

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Scientists call for a global science panel to address threats from chemical pollution

Two factory smokestacks with smoke coming out of the top set against a orange sky at sunset.

An international group of scientists is proposing a global intergovernmental science-policy body for informing policymakers and the public on chemicals and waste.

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Regional Class Research Vessel Project Update

Illustrated renderings of the three RCRVs

RCRV-2 Construction – Interim Report, February 2021 By GSO Dean Emeritus Bruce Corliss The RCRV project continues to move forward with construction of the R/V Taani, RCRV-2 (Hull 6097), and the R/V Gilbert R. Mason by the Gulf Island Shipyard (GIS) in Houma, La. Last week, a virtual Quarterly Management Review took place with GIS, […]

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URI gallery exhibition and youth art competition to celebrate GSO’s 60th anniversary

Hands-on undergraduate research: COVID-19 can’t stop this!

Antarctic Seals Reveal Worrying Threats to Disappearing Glaciers

Microbes deep beneath seafloor survive on byproducts of radioactive process

New online master’s program will train next generation of leaders in ocean science and technology

Scientists call for a global science panel to address threats from chemical pollution

Regional Class Research Vessel Project Update

GSO community proposes ambitious “Ocean-Shots” for the Ocean Decade

New URI oceanography professor to manage $94 million ocean exploration institute

GSO professor publishes book on ecosystem-based fisheries management

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