By Todd Mcleish In what some scientists call one of the largest migrations on Earth, massive numbers of small fish and zooplankton travel from the ocean depths to the surface every evening to feast on phytoplankton before returning to the depths at dawn. Based on data collected by a research team led by URI professor […]
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Exploring the Depths of the Gulf of Mexico Loop Current
By Todd McLeish In May of 2021, a team of five GSO scientists spent two weeks retrieving 24 sensors from the seafloor in the deepest part of the Gulf of Mexico as part of a long-term, collaborative effort to better understand the Gulf’s Loop Current system. The instruments had been collecting data every hour since […]
Continue reading "Exploring the Depths of the Gulf of Mexico Loop Current"The Long View with Tom Rossby
By Janine Weisman No need to sugarcoat the reason why Tom Rossby no longer goes to sea. “It’s not responsible at my age to do that sort of stuff,” says the University of Rhode Island emeritus professor of oceanography. “I’m in good health and all that jazz but first of all, you don’t want to […]
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By Veronica M. Berounsky March 13 would be the last normal day of 2020 on the University of Rhode Island Narragansett Bay Campus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. When Graduate School of Oceanography faculty, students and staff left campus at the end of the day, they knew face-to-face classes were cancelled and online classes would […]
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Aboard GSO, Fall 2020 My time as a student at GSO was formative for me both as a scientist and as a person, and I am thrilled to return to the Bay Campus. I am excited about what lies ahead for GSO, but first I would like to thank Bruce Corliss for his years of […]
Continue reading "From the Dean…"Planning for the Ocean Technology Building
One of the highest priorities of the Narragansett Bay Campus Master Plan, the Ocean Technology Building will be dedicated to groundbreaking innovations. The future of ocean exploration, research and enterprise lies in rapid development and deployment of sophisticated systems. With this in mind, GSO is finalizing plans for a building in which technologically driven research […]
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Research expedition derailed by COVID-19
Continue reading "Impacts of the Pandemic"MOSAiC Research Expedition
By Todd McLeish Adrift on the Arctic ice, five GSO researchers joined with 600 other scientists from 19 nations to collect data during the year-long MOSAiC Expedition. It was planned as the largest Arctic science expedition in history: Trapping the German icebreaker Polarstern in the ice near the North Pole for 13 months as […]
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Construction continues on the Regional Class Research Vessel (RCRV-2). The ship is one of three NSF-funded vessels designed with advanced capabilities for interdisciplinary oceanographic operations in areas from coastal bays and estuaries to the deep ocean beyond continental margins. Significant recent progress includes the melding of the RCRV-2’s first two “modules.” The RCRV hulls under […]
Continue reading "Meanwhile, down in Houma, La.…"Meet GSO’s Sixth Dean
The one-time doctoral student returns to the Narragansett Bay Campus. By Ellen Liberman According to family lore, Paula Bontempi was five when she announced that she was going to study the ocean. Her father was pleased; it seemed a fitting tribute to the generations of Bontempi men who fished the Adriatic Sea off the […]
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