Two GSO researchers estimate that the top 5 centimeters (2 inches) of the floor of Narragansett Bay now contain more than 1,000 tons of microplastics.
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GSO’s Thomas Rossby has recently contributed two translations, one from Norwegian and the other from Swedish, to the GSO website.
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GSO’s Asta Habtemichael was awarded the Donald Cunnigen Award for Excellence in Graudate Studies.
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GSO researchers Pam Rubinoff and JP Walsh are among 21 scientists who will help develop a coastal resilience hub for New England.
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GSO professor Rebecca Robinson will serve as an advisor and help to further the Coastal Institute’s community-based coastal science mission.
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GSO Blue MBA grad Christine de Silva will be co-host and photographer for this Shark Week’s “Alien Sharks: Strange New Worlds” episode.
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A URI partnership is using bot-derived data to predict harmful algal blooms. The approach could address this global problem in Narragansett Bay & beyond.
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Students worked on finding a solution for ghost fishing gear in GSO’s Hacking4Oceans class.
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With hurricane season just starting, RI has a new storm modeling system. The Rhode Island Coastal Hazards, Analysis, Modeling, and Prediction (RI-CHAMP) system, developed by GSO’s Isaac Ginis.
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GSO student Philip Yang has been named a 2023 Dr. Nancy Foster Scholar by NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries.
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