November 2024 —April 2025 The Ocean State of Mind Film Fest celebrates stories that inspire a reconnection with the ocean by screening short ocean films curated from the 2024 San Diego Undersea Film Exhibition, one of the most prestigious underwater film festivals worldwide. As part of the Coastal State Discussion Series sponsored by R.I. Sea […]

By Bill Ibelle With the national economy in flux, fulfilling GSO’s mission to “build the blue economyworkforce” requires the ability to adapt to a changing world. That’s where advisors like Anthony Mercurio come in. Mercurio serves on GSO’s Advisory Council, where he brings a private industry perspective to GSO’s top-tiered academic setting. He has spent […]

Ocean science is entering a pivotal decade, one shaped by urgent global challenges and the need for bold, forward-looking research. I was honored to help lead an effort to meet these challenges as co-chair of the National Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) committee tasked with creating a 10-year vision for the National Science […]

By Veronica M. Berounsky, Ph.D.’90 For Regina Rodrigues, Ph.D. ’04, the URI Graduate School of Oceanography wasn’t part of her original plan, but it quickly became a place where her research found momentum. “At the time, my master’s adviser in Brazil, at the University of São Paulo, was writing a proposal with GSO Professor Mark […]

By Michael Blanding Since its founding in 1950, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has played a pivotal role in the development of scientific knowledge, support­ing basic research that often leads to breakthrough discoveries in ways private industry or academic institutions alone often cannot undertake. At URI‘s Graduate School of Oceanography, NSF has been funding ocean […]

By Ellen Liberman Earth awaits discovery.Deep mysteriesTo be revealed in time. In 17 syllables, Margaret Leinen, Ph.D. ’80, stunned the room. In 2002, a consortium of scientists had gathered in Nagasaki to celebrate the launch of the Chikyu, the first Japanese ocean drill ship to join an international research effort to collect sediment samples from […]