New research from GSO professor Kelton McMahon finds that depending on their diet, some penguin species are able to thrive in the rapidly changing Antarctic while others are facing decline.
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GSO dean candidates: Open presentations and forums
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In the year after Rhode Island voters approved a 2018 bond referendum, GSO has secured a number of private gifts to build on public funding and further revitalize its facilities.
Continue reading "After voters said ‘Yes on 2,’ URI’s Graduate School of Oceanography earns private support"The public and classrooms around the country are invited to interact in real time with polar scientists conducting critical research in the region of the Western Antarctic Peninsula, which has warmed four times more than anywhere else on Earth.
Continue reading "Public, schools are invited to join live, interactive broadcasts from the Southern Ocean and Antarctic peninsula"Two GSO alumnae, Catalina Martinez (M.S. ‘99) and Sheekela Baker-Yeboah (Ph.D. ‘08) were honored at the 24th annual Women of Color STEM Conference.
Continue reading "Two GSO alumnae receive Women of Color STEM awards"GSO doctoral student Catherine Nowakowski was one of 21 students in the United States selected by the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) to participate in the Limnology and Oceanography Research Exchange (LOREX).
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Four URI Graduate School of Oceanography scientists will soon join 600 other participants from 19 different countries as part of the largest Arctic science expedition in history.
Continue reading "URI oceanographers to join largest Arctic science expedition in history"Anna Robuck, a Ph.D. student at the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography, was recently chosen as one of 20 environmental scholars to receive a Switzer Environmental Fellowship.
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GSO oceanographers have synthesized the results of dozens of studies about the microbial life that lives deep beneath the seafloor. Their findings on how subseafloor life affects the world above the water line are somewhat surprising.
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A research team, led by the URI Graduate School of Oceanography, recently returning from a groundbreaking, 18-day expedition aboard the Swedish Icebreaker Oden has made a discovery related to plastics in the Arctic Ocean.
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