A number of URI GSO faculty, staff and students will present their research at the 2020 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. See our meeting guide for details.
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GSO Profiles-GSO Coordinator of Library Services Joyce Downey, MLS
Joyce Downey, Coordinator for Library Services at Pell Marine Library. has been there for 21 years and she knows that library very well.
Continue reading "GSO Profiles-GSO Coordinator of Library Services Joyce Downey, MLS"Microbial diversity below seafloor is as rich as on Earth’s surface
For the first time, researchers have mapped the biological diversity of marine sediment, one of Earth’s largest global biomes.
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GSO scientists depart for a five-day cruise to investigate the implications of a marine heat wave in the offshore waters of New England.
Continue reading "URI scientists investigate effects of marine heat wave on ocean life off southern New England"GSO announces competition to rename new ocean research vessel
GSO is holding a national competition to select a new name for a National Science Foundation-owned Regional Class Research Vessel which will homeport at the URI Narragansett Bay Campus.
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GSO student Anna Robuck found high levels of the PFAS in seabirds from offshore Massachusetts and coastal Rhode Island and North Carolina.
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Experts from the URI Graduate School of Oceanography will participate in the next edition of The Ocean Race Summits.
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Journalist Ian Urbina will share many of his stories of lawlessness at sea at this year’s Charles and Marie Fish Lecture, hosted by the URI Graduate School of Oceanography.
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GSO Profile highlighting GSO Facilities Coordinator Seth Pilotte.
Continue reading "GSO Profiles-GSO Facilities Coordinator Seth Pilotte"New current that transports water to one of world’s largest ‘waterfalls’ discovered in deep ocean
An international team discovered a previously unrecognized ocean current that transports water to one of the world’s largest “waterfalls” in the North Atlantic Ocean: the Faroe Bank Channel Overflow into the deep North Atlantic.
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