GSO professor J.P. Walsh co-PI a new NSF grant to bridge international expertise and communities around mangrove/seagrass ecosystems.
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The URI GSO community will present its research at the 2024 Ocean Sciences Meeting (OSM) in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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URI students are invited to join the University’s inaugural Innovation and Entrepreneurship Challenge sponsored by 401 Tech Bridge.
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Professor Kendall Moore and GSO’s Inner Space Center selected to deliver opening presentation Feb. 15, 2024 The world’s premier gathering of oceanographers will begin next week in Louisiana with a little bit of a different opening, thanks to the University of Rhode Island. The throng of scientists will quickly get to the science but first, […]
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With support from NOAA and OECI, URI GSO’s Andy Davies is building a fleet of unmanned benthic landers to explore the long-term recovery of deep-sea habitats affected by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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A University effort to fund science-and-outreach projects addressing real-life issues challenging Rhode Island seafood industries drew dozens to a recent event at the Bay Campus.
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The first cohort of RISE-UP Innovation & Entrepreneurship Faculty Fellows at URI includes two Bay Campus faculty members, Brice Loose and Brennan Phillips.
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Innovative new research led by URI ocean engineering professor Brennan Phillips may shave years from the process of confirming the discovery of new or rare species in the deep sea.
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GSO’s Rainer Lohmann and his co-authors report the Arctic Ocean potentially exports as many PFAS to the North Atlantic Ocean as enters it, circulating the compounds around the world.
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Four members of the GSO community were honored into URI’s Lifetime Service Society for serving the University for at least 40 years.
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