“It’s going to be so much easier to test our platforms in the larger and deeper tank. And with the motorized crane and gantry, we’ll need less manpower to operate the system.” Mingxi Zhou —Assistant Professor of Oceanography One of the major factors that convinced Mingxi Zhou to join the faculty of the Graduate School […]

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“We’re looking forward to this new facility where we can conduct training, store equipment and offer courses, all adjacent to our offices and close to the water.” Anya Hanson —Diving Safety Officer The university’s Diving Research and Safety Program—and the hundreds of students, faculty and staff who are trained to scuba dive for recreation, research […]

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“We want to push the limits of the technology, because much of what’s available now is big, heavy and clunky. We’re trying to make robotics smaller and lighter.” Brennan Phillips —Assistant Professor of Ocean Engineering Brennan Phillips designs and builds robots for use in deep-sea exploration. In collaboration with other engineering and oceanography faculty members […]

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“We’re just beginning to understand and quantify the amount of biomass in the twilight zone, how exploitable is it, how vulnerable is it, will it become a resource that humans may use for protein or other reasons.” Melissa Omand —Assistant Professor of Oceanography Melissa Omand studies a region of the ocean that she calls the […]

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GSO Research Awards — Q3 (Q1 FY2021)

Investigator	Source	Amount	Title	Comments
Robert Ballard, Dwight Coleman	US Dept of Commerce NOAA	$15,428,507	NOAA Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute (OECI)
Jeremy Collie	US Dept of Commerce NOAA	$351,485	Early Life History of American Lobsters in Coastal Southern New England Waters
Peter Cornillon	NatAeronautics & Space Admin	$24,318	A Framework for the Deconvolution of Oversampled Fields of Geophysical Parameters Obtained from Satellite-Borne Passive Microwave Radiometers
Brian Crawford, Karen Kent	US Agcy for International Dev.	$786,987	Women Shellfishers and Food Security Project
Kathleen Donohue, D Randolph Watts	National Science Foundation	$988,212	Eddy Fluxes Across the Southern Antarctic Circumpolar Current Front Near Southeast Indian Ridge
Katherine Kelley, Robert Pockalny, Steven Carey	National Science Foundation	$204,203	Origin and Evolution of Intraplate Magmatism at the Revillagigedo Archipelago, Mexico
Katherine Kelley, Rebecca Robinson, Steven Carey	National Science Foundation	$366,968	Acquisition Upgrade of Micro-Analytical Tools for Geochemistry
Robert Kenney	US Dept of Commerce NOAA	$67,312	RENEWAL: Maintain and Curate the North Atlantic Right Whale Sightings Database
John King	US Dept of Interior	$109,999	Benthic Habitat Characterization and Mapping for Assateague National Seashore and Acadia National Park
Brice Loose, Laura Glastra	NASA Space Grant-Brown University	$37,824	Envisioning Ocean World Habitats and Bio-geochemistry at Analogous air-Ice-Ocean Interfaces on Earth	NASA Space Grant Fellowship
Colleen Mouw, Virginie Sonnet	NatAeronautics & Space Admin	$44,999	NASA FINESST: Linking Hyperspectral Optical Properties with Morphology and Taxonomy for Improved Phytoplankton Composition Discrimination	Graduate student fellowship
Veronique Oldham, Rebecca Robinson	National Science Foundation	$892,732	Manganese as a Key Reactant in the Expanding Low Oxygen Zones of the Gulf of Mexico, USA
Jaime Palter, Kelton McMahon, Christopher Kincaid	US Dept of Commerce NOAA	$449,900	Understanding Dramatic Warming and Altered Fisheries on the US Continental Shelf through Observations and Multi-Scale Models
Jaime Palter, Sarah Nickford	NASA Space Grant-Brown University	$52,400	Improving our Understanding and Quantification of Wintertime Air-Sea CO2 Exchange in the Gulf Stream and Subtropiical Mode Water Formation Region	NASA Space Grant Fellowship
Christopher Roman	Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC)	$77,454	Constraining the Relationship Between Oceanographic Features and Deep Scattering Layer Biology for Improved Tactical Capabilities	Non-GSO PI, total award is $232,594
Malia Schwartz	NOAA CINAR (Woods Hole Oce Institution)	$8,293	URI-CINAR: Analysis of Nutrient Samples from the Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf
John (J.P.) Walsh	National Science Foundation	$124,441	Assessment Framework for Successful Development of Viable Ocean Multi-Use Systems
D Randolph Watts	University of Miami	$157,815	Three PIES for CIMAS - Meinen, South Atlantic MOC Project
Meng (Matt) Wei, Yang Shen	National Science Foundation	$243,825	Using Machine Learning Method to Detect Slow Slip Events in Ocean Bottom Pressure Data

Official Logo Files This page provides for download of the combined URI/GSO mark in the most commonly used color variations and three file formats. Access to the complete package of university graphics is available here. Adding an official university logo to your publication can be done appropriately in countless ways. However, there are a few […]

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