In the Spring of 2019, Berta Borneo became the first international student to earn a Master of Oceanography (M.O.) degree from GSO. Despite growing up far from the beach, in a small village in East Java, Indo­nesia, Borneo’s fascination with the ocean led her to enroll at GSO, where her studies focused on microplastic and […]

  It was the early 2000s in Zanzibar, and the intertidal zones were under stress. For ages, the women of Fumba Peninsula had waded into the shallow waters of the Menai Bay Conservation Area to collect oysters and cockles to sell and to feed their families. But overfishing of the deeper waters led to poverty, […]

Despite being the most prominent feature on Earth, the ocean is still a mystery in many ways. Some of the uncertainty surrounding the ocean is compounded by the scientific publishing process, as the body of peer-reviewed knowledge about the ocean often reaches only a tiny percentage of the public due to paywalled publication sites and […]

Behind New Hampshire’s modest 19 miles of Atlantic Ocean coastline lies the Great Bay Estuary and its tidal rivers. Stretching for 235 miles and lined with seagrass, it’s an ideal home base for world-renowned seagrass ecologist Dr. Fred Short. The GSO alum (M.S. 1976) landed at the University of New Hampshire after receiving his doctorate […]

Recognition of GSO students, faculty and alumni from the scientific community for their achievements and excellence

  When Mingxi Zhou first learned about the field of marine robotics as a graduate student in Newfoundland, he was intrigued. He had already studied micro-electronics manufacturing in China and was searching for an emerging robotics discipline to pursue. The more he learned about autonomous underwater vehicles and ocean instruments, the more he knew he […]

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 […]