Aboard GSO, Spring 2023 New graduates receive diplomas, incoming students match up with major professors, dormant flowers and trees come alive: spring always brings change to the Narragansett Bay Campus. This spring, however, ushers in more than the usual cycles. Construction is complete on the new Bay Campus pier, future home to the regional class […]

By Ellen Liberman It took $3 billion dollars, 13 years and a score of universities and research centers in six countries to sequence nearly the entire human genome. In April 2003, the international consortium piloting the effort announced that it had successfully accounted for 92% of the 3.2 billion base pairs that make up a […]

By Lauren Thacker Changing marine habitats and populations, the economics of commercial fishing, and the livelihood and tradition of fishing communities: this is a present-day story of the relationship between the ocean and the people who live and work by its waters, and the efforts to make that relationship sustainable. A huge aspect of those […]

Meet (again) Rob Pockalny as he assumes the duties of associate dean By Alexander Castro It’s 1975, and Steven Spielberg’s Jaws has inaugurated a shark trend with gallons of fresh blood. Like many a middle-schooler, Rob Pockalny is fascinated by the fearsome fish, and opts for sharks as the subject for his term paper. Pockalny […]

By Alexander Castro “Surfing the web” may seem like a quaint phrase in 2023, but in the premillennial era, it spoke to a vastness shared between the oceanic and the online. Back then it was thrilling that the internet couldn’t be exhausted. Today that prospect is more exhausting than exhilarating. Thanks to GSO’s newest program […]

By Veronica M. Berounsky, Ph.D. ’90 A loud boom reverberated back to shore on April 18, 2006. Explosives placed along the old Jamestown Bridge, which had connected Conanicut Island to North Kingstown for 66 years, were detonated and the span collapsed into the West Passage of Narragansett Bay. To many it was a historic and […]