Come to the URI Narragansett Bay Campus on October 13th for the 2018 Graduate School of Oceanography Open House!
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Study links climate change to the invasion of lower-oxygen water in Gulf of St. Lawrence
A new study co-authored by GSO professor Jaime Palter explains how large-scale climate change already is causing oxygen levels to drop in the deeper parts of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
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A group of eight schoolteachers travel hundreds of miles aboard the R/V Endeavor on a three-day expedition designed to establish partnerships between ocean scientists, researchers and teachers who live and teach in Rhode Island.
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Hurricane models being developed at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography will make forecasting hurricanes in New England more precise and offer real-time updates for first responders and public officials.
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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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NOAA Sea Grant and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) announced that Joe Langan, a student at URI’s Graduate School of Oceanography, was selected as one of seven 2018 NMFS-Sea Grant Joint Fellowship recipients.
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GSO professors Susanne Menden-Deuer, Melissa Omand, and Tatiana Rynearson are among 100 researchers from 30 institutions who embarked on a month-long expedition to study microscopic organisms that live deep in the ocean and play a critical role in removing carbon dioxide from Earth’s atmosphere.
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Many undergraduate students in the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Oceanography (SURFO) program have the opportunity to hone in their programming skills while delving into oceanographic research.
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GSO Advisory Council member—and former Oceanographer and Navigator of the Navy—Dick West wrote an op-ed for the Providence Journal congratulating GSO on the Regional Class Research Vessel announcement, highlighting the importance of GSO’s work, and calling for support of the upcoming Narragansett Bay Campus bond measure. (Ship rendering: Glosten Associates)
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How about opportunities to explore different aspects of geoscience? Ask Allyson Murray and Whitney Marshall who are spending ten weeks at the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography as Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow in Oceanography (SURFO). Allyson is a rising senior in Geology and Marine Science at Stockton University. She is working in […]
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