Speaker Mak Saito, Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution The Adaptive Capabilities of Phytoplankton and Microbial Metallomes in a Changing Ocean Abstract Micronutrients play important roles in modern oceanic biological processes. Yet their use in biology is diverse and has been influenced by the surrounding environment, with major changes in metal availability occurring over Earth […]

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Speaker Shafer Smith, Ph.D., Professor of Mathematics and Atmosphere/Ocean Science, New York University Sensing Sub-Mesoscale Structures from SWOT Abstract The Ka-band Radar Interferometer (KaRIn) aboard NASA’s recently launched Surface Water Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite measures sea surface height (SSH) in 120 km wide swaths. Far exceeding its engineering expectations, the instrument is resolving SSH features […]

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Speaker James F. Holden, Professor, UMass Amherst, Dept. of Microbiology Autotrophy and competition among thermophiles from hydrothermal vents Abstract Thermophilic methanogens and some sulfur reducers in hydrothermal vents can fix CO2 usingH2 as an energy source. However, our understanding of how and where these organisms grow in the sub seafloor, their biogeochemical impact, the isotopic […]

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Speaker Elizabeth Weidner, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut Echoes from the ice-ocean interface: High-frequency broadband acoustic study of tidewater glaciers Abstract The ice-water interface of marine-terminating (tidewater) glaciers in high latitude fjords represent a critical transition zone, linking the terrestrial, cryosphere, and ocean systems. These glaciers are important drivers of global […]

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Speaker Rebecca Jackson, Asst. Prof., Earth and Climate Sciences, Tufts University Where glaciers meet the ocean: testing theories for submarine melt with observations from autonomous vessels Abstract Around the globe, glaciers and ice sheets are shrinking, raising sea levels at an accelerating rate. Ocean warming has been implicated as a driver of glacier retreat, with […]

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Speaker Daniel Watkins, Ph.D., Senior Research Associate, Brown University Observing air-ice-ocean coupled dynamics: Results from the MOSAiC expedition and beyond Abstract Sea ice mediates the exchange of momentum, heat, and moisture between the atmosphere and the ocean. During the year-long MOSAiC expedition, an array of drifting buoys surrounding the R/V Polarstern enabled the characterization of […]

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Speaker Carolina Camargo, Postdoctoral Investigator, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution From Shelf Break to Shoreline: Coastal Sea Level and Local Ocean Dynamics in the Northwest Atlantic Abstract The US East Coast is a heavily populated region, and models project that it will experience faster-than-global rates of sea-level rise in the coming century. Hence it is important […]

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Winners Grades K-2 Grades 3-5 Grades 6-8 Grades 9-12 Ocean View Art Exhibition The exhibition at the URI Providence Campus will take place April 3-27, 2023, with a Gallery Night on April 20th. Ocean View includes artworks in all media from 25 area professional artists and a youth art competition with more than 200 artworks […]

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A day of fun activities and fascination for ocean science begins here, on the quad. More than two dozen exhibitors will present the work, research and discovery that happens on the Bay Campus year round.  Exhibit Titles  Rhode Island Sea Grant: Sea Crafts  URI Women’s Center: Women in Science GSO Academic Affairs         Coastal Resources Center: […]

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