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.
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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.
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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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In a new study, researchers reveal that given the right food in the right laboratory conditions, microbes collected from sediment as old as 100 million years can revive and multiply, even after laying dormant since large dinosaurs prowled the planet.
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A statement from URI Graduate School of Oceanography Dean Bruce Corliss.
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