Catalina Martinez (M.S. 1999) and Sheekela Baker-Yeboah (Ph.D. 2008) were honored at the 24th annual Women of Color STEM Conference in October 2019. Martinez, who received the Diversity Leadership in Government award, is a Regional Program Manager at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of Ocean Exploration and Research (NOAA OER). Martinez started the […]

NOAA-funded applied research to deliver foundational knowledge for healthy, sustainable growth of blue economies. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has formed two new institutes for oceanographic exploration, collaborative research and discovery. The Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute (OECI) will be hosted by URI/GSO at the Narragansett Bay Campus. GSO will also join the Cooperative […]

By Holly Morin The Arctic is considered a region of extremes with acute shifts in seasonal daylight, intense cold, and high winds. As average air temperatures in this polar region are rising more rapidly than other parts of the world, it is now also a region of extreme climatic warming. The changes happening on land […]

At sea during the outbreak of the COVID-19 global pandemic, Endeavor returns to Narragansett Bay in April. When University of Rhode Island oceanographers Rainer Lohmann and Rob Pockalny flew to Barbados in February to board the research ship Endeavor for the beginning of a 22-day expedition across the Atlantic, their only health concern was whether […]

  By Betty-Jo Cugini and Peter Hanlon In the summer of 2020, GSO Dean Bruce Corliss will take one final look out of his office window across a sweeping view of Narragansett Bay’s West Passage, and place an envelope on the top of his desk. Before he steps down from his position of eight years, […]