A vision for GSO (or why we must have a ship, why we can’t forget about coastal waters, and why we should celebrate April 27)

When URI President Francis H. Horn hired John A. Knauss as the founding dean of the newly established Graduate School of Oceanography, they definitely believed in “Think Big, We Do”, transforming the Narragansett Marine Lab by bringing in an ocean-going ship in addition to expanding the coastal programs. And it started on April 27, 1961.

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URI creates consortium with two major institutions to operate Endeavor and submit proposal for new research vessel

Posted on April 16, 2018 at URI Today NARRAGANSETT, R.I., April 16, 2018—The University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography has created a consortium with two major institutions to operate the research vessel Endeavor for its final years and to jointly submit a proposal to operate a new ship, which would also be based […]

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Roots, Holdfasts, and Anchors

Welcome to the Bay Campus (B)log. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, a blog is “a regular feature appearing as part of an online publication that typically relates to a particular topic and consists of articles and personal commentary by one or more authors”. But why (B)log? Also according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, a log is […]

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50th Boat Burning

September, 2014 After enrolling at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography in 1964, Donald Gordon towed his wooden sloop from Woods Hole, Mass., to the URI Bay Campus in hopes of sailing it in his free time. When it arrived, the boat was beyond repair, so he offered to burn it as […]

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