In the third installment of his blog, URI GSO student Jiahang Li finishes deploying ocean bottom seismometers and describes what it’s like to see Kilauea’s lava flow into the sea as he and Dr. Yang Shen study the ongoing volcanic eruption and related seismic activity.
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GSO, along with partners WHOI and UNH, won the competition for a new research ship. The (B)log explains why this is important for Rhode Island, why a coastal oceanographer is excited about this, and why the Rhode Island public should be very excited about the future of ocean research in our state.
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For the summer 2018, SURFO program participant Sarah Paulson (Wesleyan University) is profiling the microbial community associated with local oysters infected with the parasite causing the Dermo disease.
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The National Science Foundation has selected the East Coast Oceanographic Consortium, led by the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography, to operate a new oceanographic research ship, one of only three such vessels in the nation.
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In the second installment of his blog, URI GSO student Jiahang Li describes how ocean bottom seismometers are deployed & collected as he and Dr. Yang Shen study the ongoing eruption of Hawaii’s #Kilauea volcano and the accompanying earthquakes & tremors.
Continue reading "Seven Days Offshore of Kilauea: Deploying the Seismometers"
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
Continue reading "Previously unsuspected volcanic activity confirmed under West Antarctic Ice Sheet at Pine Island Glacier"
Deb is working on deep-sea snail populations in the laboratory of Roxanne Beinart. #NSFfunded
Continue reading "Meet the SURFOs: Deborah Leopo"