Ocean and space exploration blend at URI’s Graduate School of Oceanography

Scientists with a NASA-led expedition are operating from the Inner Space Center at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography as colleagues explore the deep Pacific Ocean to prepare to search for life in deep space.

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Keel-Laying Celebrates Start of New Research Vessel’s Construction

A shipyard ceremony attended by national, state, and academic VIPs marks start of construction on the Research Vessel Resolution. R.I. Governor, Gina Raimondo is the ship’s ceremonial sponsor.

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Join URI students on R/V Endeavor oceanographic research expedition, Earth Day April 22

Students from the University of Rhode Island Honors Program will embark on a six-day expedition aboard the URI Graduate School of Oceanography (GSO) Research Vessel (R/V) Endeavor to conduct ocean research – and on Earth Day, April 22, you can join them!

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Studying the past, and predicting the future, of the Southern Ocean food web

GSO professor Kelton McMahon is on an Antarctic research cruise as part of a multi-year project to help scientists better understand how the Southern Ocean food web has responded to environmental changes in the past, and predict how the ecosystem might respond to a changing climate in the future.

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Bay Campus (B)log: Let me count the ways I love you

February has Valentines Day and is American Heart Month so it’s certainly the month when you can wear your heart on your sleeve. In that vein, here is my winter and spring “Favorite Five” list of what makes the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography (GSO) so special and why we “heart” GSO.

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