All are invited to a family-friendly day at the URI Bay Campus, home to the Graduate School of Oceanography and a world-renowned community of coastal and ocean scientists, engineers, policy experts, educators, and communicators.
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The air we breathe in our homes, schools and workplaces can be polluted with harmful PFAS chemicals, according to a new study by GSO scientists.
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Tropical Storm Henri was the perfect opportunity for researchers at GSO and the University of Rhode Island to test out the real-time storm modeling capabilities of the Rhode Island Coastal Hazards, Analysis, and Modeling Prediction (RICHAMP) system.
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The nightly trek of small marine animals from the ocean depths to the surface has been called the largest migration on Earth, and new research led by GSO’s Melissa Omand finds that some zooplankton swim up and down in response to shifts in light due to cloud cover as well.
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Read the third and final post from GSO Ph.D. candidate Diana Fontaine about her experience working on the NASA EXPORTS project in the North Atlantic.
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The National Science Foundation’s new Regional Class Research Vessel that will soon call the University of Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay Campus home has a name: Narragansett Dawn.
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GSO Ph.D. student Ali Johnson writes about, and shares photos from, a recent research cruise in the Gulf of Mexico with four other GSO scientists as part of an ongoing study on the Loop Current.
A team of five GSO scientists
Continue reading "Gulf of Mexico research cruise: Studying the Loop Current"GSO graduate Angela Stahl really enjoyed her research experience at GSO.
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GSO profile for GSO graduate Anna Robuck about her work using seabirds to look for novel human pollutants.
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GSO Profile for GSO graduate Xuanyu Chen who received her Ph.D. in August 2020.
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