A time-honored tradition at GSO is to present a coveted T-shirt to each degree recipient who can attend the year-end “Shirting Ceremony.” These 11 members of the 2019 graduating class show off their just reward. Degrees Awarded in 2019 Master of Oceanography Berta Borneo (David Smith) Casey Danhauser (David Smith) Kyle Griebel (John King) Andrew […]

This spring, 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 its effect on […]

  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 […]

  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 […]