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Fitting in science between the roaring waves and blustery wind

Read the second 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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Tagged as:Diana Fontaine NASA EXPORTS plankton

GSO Profiles – GSO Graduate Nina R. Santos

Nina Santos holding a small shark

Nina R. Santos received her M.S. from GSO in December and is continuing her ocean science career in a Ph.D. program

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Tagged as:Atlantic cod black sea bass Climate Change fish trawl GSO Profiles Kelton McMahon M.S. Oceanography Nina Santos

GSO Profiles-GSO Graduate Il-Kyeong Ma

Ma on tour of hurricane hunter plane.

Profile of December 2020 GSO graduate Il-kyeong Ma

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Tagged as:GSO Profiles Il-Kyeong Ma Isaac Ginis M.S. Oceanography modeling tropical cyclones

GSO Profiles-GSO Graduate Maggie Heinichen 

Shows May 2021 GSO graduate Maggie Heinichen with a fish from Narragansett Bay

GSO Profile of May 2021 graduate Maggie Heinichen who developed a fisheries model for Narragansett Bay for her Ph.D. work with Jeremy Collie,

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Tagged as:Austin Humphries Fisheries GSO Profiles Jeremy Collie M.S. Maggie Heinichen modeling oceanography

URI marine explorer Ballard publishes memoir, reveals dyslexia

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

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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Tagged as:Ocean exploration Ocean Exploration Trust Robert Ballard

Pursuing ocean science in the midst of a global pandemic

View of the bow of a large research vessel tied up to an industrial pier, a sign in the foreground reads "National Oceanography Centre; University of Southampton"

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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Tagged as:Biological Oceanography carbon Diana Fontaine NASA EXPORTS Phytoplankton Research vessel

Nina Santos makes a difference by combining lifelong love for oceanography, passion for the environment

Nina Santos facing camera and wearing waders while standing in shallow water.

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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Tagged as:Fisheries Kelton McMahon Nina Santos

Frozen Obsession on PBS

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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URI oceanographers reveal links between migrating Gulf Stream and warming ocean waters

An animated map and time series (same color convention) of the 2008 temperature anomaly on the Northwest Atlantic Shelf, highlighting the rapid warming in the most recent decade.

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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Tagged as:Afonso Gonçalves Neto climate Climate Change Jaime Palter Joe Langan

Earth Week 2021 with GSO

View of sun setting over an ocean horizon with text over the image that says "Earth Week 2021"

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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