Summary of activity for the 2019-2020 Academic Year
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AR 2020_Administration
The administration’s mission is to create and uphold an environment in which science and scholarship can thrive. The Narragansett Bay Campus Master Plan Implementation is fully underway with the design phases for GSO’s expanded pier, an ocean technology research laboratory, and a modern marine operations building with support shops for regional class research vessels. Funded […]
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GSO Dean Paula Bontempi’s introduction to the FY2020 Annual Report.
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Summary of Outreach activities in fiscal year 2020
Continue reading "AR 2020_Outreach"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
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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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