By Ellen Liberman It took $3 billion dollars, 13 years and a score of universities and research centers in six countries to sequence nearly the entire human genome. In April 2003, the international consortium piloting the effort announced that it had successfully accounted for 92% of the 3.2 billion base pairs that make up a […]
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Fisheries’ Future
By Lauren Thacker Changing marine habitats and populations, the economics of commercial fishing, and the livelihood and tradition of fishing communities: this is a present-day story of the relationship between the ocean and the people who live and work by its waters, and the efforts to make that relationship sustainable. A huge aspect of those […]
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Meet (again) Rob Pockalny as he assumes the duties of associate dean By Alexander Castro It’s 1975, and Steven Spielberg’s Jaws has inaugurated a shark trend with gallons of fresh blood. Like many a middle-schooler, Rob Pockalny is fascinated by the fearsome fish, and opts for sharks as the subject for his term paper. Pockalny […]
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By Alexander Castro “Surfing the web” may seem like a quaint phrase in 2023, but in the premillennial era, it spoke to a vastness shared between the oceanic and the online. Back then it was thrilling that the internet couldn’t be exhausted. Today that prospect is more exhausting than exhilarating. Thanks to GSO’s newest program […]
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By Veronica M. Berounsky, Ph.D. ’90 A loud boom reverberated back to shore on April 18, 2006. Explosives placed along the old Jamestown Bridge, which had connected Conanicut Island to North Kingstown for 66 years, were detonated and the span collapsed into the West Passage of Narragansett Bay. To many it was a historic and […]
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A Fleet of Miniboats
It’s been a big year for small boats. GSO graduate students and staff guided Central Falls, R.I. students in building two ocean-going miniboats. The 5-foot long boats, driven by wind and currents and equipped with sensors powered by the sun, served as platforms for students to learn how to build a seaworthy vessel. The elementary school students built the boats using kits from nonprofit Educational Passages and learned several ocean science lessons along the way. The hard work paid off, as both boats crossed the Atlantic and were recovered, one off of the Azores and the other on a beach in the U.K. Best of all is that the journey isn’t over yet, both boats will soon be relaunched.
Alumni News and Notes
Updates by and for former graduates of the School
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Memorable moments from across the Bay Campus
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Fenix Garcia Tigreros, Assistant Professor of Oceanography By Alexander Castro Rhode Island is one of the nation’s flatter states, so it’s certainly a change of pace for Fenix Garcia Tigreros, the newest assistant professor at GSO. She recalls the slogan of her native Bogotá, Colombia: “We like to say Bogotá is 2,600 meters closer to […]
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New leader strengthens campus commitment to tackling systemic inequalities By Janine Weisman Five capital letters spell D-R-E-A-M on a windowsill in Princess Metuge’s office in the Ocean Science and Exploration Center. The initiative she is leading does not have to stay one. As the new assistant dean of Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI), Metuge […]
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