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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GSO Profile of GSO Graduate Skyler Jordan who received his Master of Oceanography in May 2020.
Continue reading "GSO Profiles-GSO Graduate Skyler Jordan"GSO Graduate Shannon McCarthy talks about her work at GSO and her job as a NOAA fisheries observer.
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Continue reading "GSO Profiles – GSO Graduate Christopher Orphanides"GSO graduate Kira L. Homola describes her research on deep sea carbon at GSO and the activities and interests that brought her to GSO.
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Continue reading "GSO Profiles – GSO Graduate Christine L. Gardiner"GSO Graduate Nick Celico developed a shellfish restoration plan for Winnapaug Pond in Westerly, R.I. and as part of that, shellfish will be transplanted into the pond.
Continue reading "GSO Profiles – GSO Graduate Nicholas Celico"Watch the 2020 Graduate School Recognition, including remarks from GSO Dean Bruce Corliss, Rhode Island Governor Gina M. Raimondo, Senator Jack Reed and others.
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