Congratulations to the Fall Class of 2024! Commencement is Saturday, Dec. 14, at 10 a.m.
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URI inducts GSO’s Jane Miner into Lifetime Service Society
11 retired faculty and staff members were honored for 40 years or more of service to the University.
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GSO’s Bob Kenney contributed to the study, “Ship collision risk threatens whales across the world’s oceans.”
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At NASA’s PACE Hackweek, Sarah Lang, a Ph.D. candidate at GSO, worked on a multi-institutional team to explore how mesoscale eddies affect phytoplankton ecosystems.
Continue reading "Mapping Ocean Ecosystems with NASA Technology at PACE Hackweek"“What’s Next for Science” – GSO at AGU ’24
The URI GSO community will present its research at the 2024 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting from December 9-13 in Washington D.C..
Continue reading "“What’s Next for Science” – GSO at AGU ’24"Even the pristine waters of Iceland are contaminated with “forever chemicals.” What’s the source?
Rainer Lohmann has returned from a Fulbright-sponsored research visit to Iceland, where he engaged in a collaborative exchange with scientists, government officials, and the public to deepen the study of PFAS in Icelandic water systems.
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We’ve created a series of GSO-inspired pumpkin carving stencils that will put your love for ocean science on full display this spooky season!
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An upcoming NSF-funded, GSO-led expedition will investigate how diatoms in the Southern Ocean can help us decode these chemical signals, providing insight into nutrient cycling and climate interactions from past glacial periods to today.
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Diana Fontaine & Asta Habtemichael will head to Washington, D.C., in February to spend a year working on coastal and marine policy issues within legislative and executive offices of the federal government.
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‘We are educating the next generation of the Blue Economy workforce.’ Oct. 7, 2024 With the faint sound of construction on the new Ocean Robotics Laboratory in the background, University of Rhode Island President Marc Parlange welcomed more than 200 guests to celebrate progress on the $300 million, multi-phase transformation of the Narragansett Bay Campus. […]
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