URI Graduate School of Oceanography student Jiahang Li and faculty member Dr. Yang Shen are currently off the coast of the Island of Hawaii as part of a “rapid response” to the ongoing eruption of the Kilauea volcano and accompanying earthquakes and tremors. As the pair works with other researchers to deploy instruments on the […]
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Mike is helping to develop a new method to measure dissolved neon (Ne) in glacial meltwater using mass spectrometry. #NSFfunded
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Elizabeth Tan is merging her science background with notions of ecology to help build and develop software for a low-cost underwater weather station. #NSFfunded
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Potential effects of volcanic warming on ice-sheet melting and sea level rise still to be determined #NSFfunded
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Deb is working on deep-sea snail populations in the laboratory of Roxanne Beinart. #NSFfunded
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Surprising find plays critical role in movement, melting of Pine Island Glacier.
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“I was really drawn to GSO because it has its own campus, it’s right on the water, it has a really rich history of faculty and students being able to really directly interact with the ocean.”
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“The interest is translating scientific discovery into societal benefits.”
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If you missed the third annual WOD Tri-Ship Connection, you can watch it now on the GSO website!
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She is spending ten weeks in the laboratory of Dr. Bethany Jenkins where she is investigating the genetic composition of the Narragansett Bay phytoplankton community and testing for the presence of the natural toxin domoic acid.
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