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 […]
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Funded research is the lifeblood of this school. Through it, knowledge about Earth’s ocean is expanded, scientists apply wisdom and expertise, graduate students gain experience and unlock passions, and the nation sees facts and evidence on which it can act. The quantity and quality of oceanographic research conducted at GSO is a special point of […]
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Summary of Gifts Received in FY 2020
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Summary of activity for the 2019-2020 Academic Year
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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
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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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