Stephen M. Greenlee M.S. ’82 and Donna Church Greenlee made a $1 million gift to establish the Greenlee Family GSO Campus Redevelopment Fund. The fund supports construction on the Narragansett Bay Campus to expand research and teaching capacity.
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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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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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An ocean-going, wind-powered Saildrone will soon be gathering oceanic and atmospheric observations as its follows the Gulf Stream to support a GSO study.
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Last month’s eruption of the Anak Krakatau volcano in Indonesia, and the deadly tsunami that followed, caused URI Ocean Engineering and GSO scientists to spring to action.
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Researchers from the URI Graduate School of Oceanography were awarded a $2 million grant as part of a long-term research campaign to help improve understanding and prediction of the Gulf of Mexico Loop Current.
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GSO researchers have found that even slight levels of ocean oxygen loss have big consequences for tiny marine organisms called zooplankton.
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Just as one’s heart isn’t centered but is on the left side of one’s body, the Mosby Center is on the left side of South Ferry Road. The last building on the road that leads visitors to the Bay Campus, the small, unassuming “North Lab” as it was originally called, is the oldest building on […]
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The American Association for the Advancement of Science has elected GSO professor emeritus James Yoder and alumnus Richard Kerr as 2018 Fellows.
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Dean Bruce Corliss gave his annual State of GSO Address on November 9th, 2018. The presentation is available to download.
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