New leader strengthens campus commitment to tackling systemic inequalities By Janine Weisman Five capital letters spell D-R-E-A-M on a windowsill in Princess Metuge’s office in the Ocean Science and Exploration Center. The initiative she is leading does not have to stay one. As the new assistant dean of Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI), Metuge […]

Aboard GSO, Fall 2022 There is no doubt that 2022 will go down as a pivotal year in the history of the Graduate School of Oceanography and the URI Narragansett Bay Campus. Thanks to Rhode Island voters who approved $100 million in a General Obligation bond for the Bay Campus. This investment will allow URI […]

By Ellen Liberman IN 1688, Pirate William Dampier marveled at the ingenuity of a Micronesian outrigger canoe: “One cannot stop talking about their great velocity, craftsmanship and lightness, because in the whole universe I do not believe there is a thing equal to them in nimbleness and swiftness,” he wrote. Double-prowed, single-masted, with a shunting […]

Academic Enterprise 50 new students enrolled, an increase of 52.7% over an average of the previous three years. 32 faculty, 4 marine research scientists and 14 postdoctoral fellows delivered classroom instruction as well as cruise and laboratory experiences to 113 graduate students. 18 students are currently earning their Master of Oceanography through a new online […]

Fenix Garcia Tigreros, Assistant Professor of Oceanography By Alexander Castro Rhode Island is one of the nation’s flatter states, so it’s certainly a change of pace for Fenix Garcia Tigreros, the newest assistant professor at GSO. She recalls the slogan of her native Bogotá, Colombia: “We like to say Bogotá is 2,600 meters closer to […]

By Alexander Castro Butterflies! Beetles! Ants, moths, cockroaches and other grubs! Lauren Decker thought bugs would be her life’s work. She told her first grade teacher she’d be an entomologist one day. Childhood fantasies tend to lack in specifics, however, and Decker’s dreams of entomology were slowly squelched. By the time she arrived at the […]

By Hugh Markey; photos courtesy of Ocean Exploration Trust Scientists, researchers and engineers aboard exploration vessel (E/V) Nautilus successfully dem­onstrated that autonomous uncrewed systems can work collabor­atively during a scientific mission. This latest development in technologies and methods will prove to be a “force-multiplier” for future ocean exploration. Expedition leader Jason Fahy from URI’s GSO […]