In a unique experience, undergraduates conduct and communicate ocean science. “Blue skies and whales, baby!” exclaimed Nick Housman, a marine biology major at URI. The undergraduate student in URI’s Honors Program made this statement each morning as he was sailing onboard the Research Vessel (R/V) Endeavor as a participant in this year’s Coast and Shelf […]

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  The Antarctic Peninsula is warming significantly faster than the global average, which is already leading to profound changes to the region’s food web.   In February, GSO professor Kelton McMahon participated in an Antarctic research cruise as part of a multi-year project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The goal: to study how […]

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