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High school students share in ocean discovery through URI link to Ballard expedition

A large split screen within the Inner Space Center, with students projected on top and scientists projected below.

Posted on November 2, 2018 on URI Today NARRAGANSETT, R.I., Nov. 2, 2018 — Students in an engineering class at Central Falls High School can boast to friends that they were able to interact with scientists who were the first to observe last week’s rare discovery of thousands of octopuses tending their eggs 3,000 meters […]

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Vote YES ON 2: Ocean Science for the Ocean State

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Since its founding in 1961, GSO has been a leader in the study and exploration of the world’s oceans and has garnered significant national and international recognition of Rhode Island as a leader in oceanography and marine science. GSO has also focused on coastal environments that are so important to Rhode Island and the nation. […]

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URI oceanographers explore world’s oceans to better understand underwater volcanoes, microscopic life, Arctic winds

View of sunset in the North Pacific from aboard a ship engaged in the EXPORTS expedition.

Scientists from GSO spent weeks at sea last summer on research expeditions designed to gain a better understanding of underwater volcanoes, microscopic life and Arctic winds.

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URI’s Coastal Resources Center leads major statewide initiative on Rhode Island’s ‘blue economy’

Aerial photo of an oyster farm in Narragansett Bay.

URI’s Coastal Resources Center is leading a statewide initiative to document Rhode Islan’s robust “Blue Economy’’ – the vast array of businesses, industries and institutions tied to the state’s waters.

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Bay Campus (B)log: Catalina Martinez: Exploring the Ocean and Sharing It With Us

From a young age, Catalina Martinez would study puddles on her street and wonder what was at the bottom of them. Now, as the Regional Program Manager for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s Office of Ocean Exploration and Research (OER) with an office by Narragansett Bay at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School […]

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URI scientists to deploy Narragansett Bay Observatory for monitoring health of changing bay

A water-level view of Greenwich Bay above and below the surface.

Oceanographers, engineers and other marine scientists from URI are preparing to deploy an array of instruments in Narragansett Bay to monitor and predict the Bay’s health in the face of environmental changes.

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New analysis reveals ocean trawling’s global footprint smaller than earlier estimates

A beam trawler (a type of fishing trawler) sits at a dock.

Bottom trawl fishing occurs on just 14 percent of the seafloor along continental shelves and slopes according to a new global analysis resulting from research by nearly five dozen scientists including GSO professor Jeremy Collie.

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