A URI partnership is using bot-derived data to predict harmful algal blooms. The approach could address this global problem in Narragansett Bay & beyond.
Continue reading "A healthy bay in sight? URI partnership creates a predictive model for public health"
Students worked on finding a solution for ghost fishing gear in GSO’s Hacking4Oceans class.
Continue reading "Hacking4Oceans students tackle ocean pollution"
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.
Continue reading "URI oceanography professor’s computer modeling system to help keep R.I. officials ahead of strong storms"
GSO student Philip Yang has been named a 2023 Dr. Nancy Foster Scholar by NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries.
Continue reading "GSO student named NOAA Dr. Nancy Foster Scholar"
GSO’s dean, Paula Bontempi, part of NASA team’s first public discussion and a follow-up media teleconference.
Continue reading "Dean of URI’s Graduate School of Oceanography addresses public, media as part of NASA’s Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Independent Study team"
URI GSO doctoral student Victoria Fulfer is analyzing samples collected around the world during The Ocean Race for microplastics.
Continue reading "URI doctoral oceanography student playing key role in microplastics research as part of ongoing The Ocean Race"
GSO scientists found that New York City, just one of many growing coastal cities all over the world that is observed to be subsiding, is sinking at a rate of 1 to 4 millimeters per year.
Continue reading "New York City is sinking, and it’s not alone"
Xiaozhuo Wei will continue his research on a Barr Foundation Fellowship from the California Institute of Technology.
Continue reading "URI oceanography doctoral graduate awarded postdoctoral fellowship"
Bryan Plankenhorn, who is pursuing a Ph.D. in oceanography at GSO, has been awarded a prestigious fellowship through the NSF.
Continue reading "GSO Ph.D. candidate awarded research fellowship from National Science Foundation"
URIGSO assistant professor and ocean robotics researcher Mingxi Zhou has received a National Science Foundation CAREER grant.
Continue reading "URI iceberg researcher lands NSF CAREER grant"