By Todd Mcleish In what some scientists call one of the largest migrations on Earth, massive numbers of small fish and zooplankton travel from the ocean depths to the surface every evening to feast on phytoplankton before returning to the depths at dawn. Based on data collected by a research team led by URI professor […]

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By Todd McLeish In May of 2021, a team of five GSO scientists spent two weeks retrieving 24 sensors from the seafloor in the deepest part of the Gulf of Mexico as part of a long-term, collaborative effort to better understand the Gulf’s Loop Current system. The instruments had been collecting data every hour since […]

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