URI GSO scientists are creating a series of computer models of the food web of Narragansett Bay to predict how fish abundance will change as water temperatures rise, nutrient inputs vary, and fishing pressure fluctuates.
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An international research team that included three scientists GSO has discovered single-celled microorganisms in a location where they didn’t expect to find them.
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A number of URI GSO faculty, staff and students will present their research at the 2020 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. See our meeting guide for details.
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Joyce Downey, Coordinator for Library Services at Pell Marine Library. has been there for 21 years and she knows that library very well.
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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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