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• Block Island and University of Rhode Island partner to strengthen coastal resilience - A shared designation marks a long-term partnership to protect land, water, and livelihoods
• Alum spotlight: Gaby Espino, M.O. ’24 - Meet alum Gaby Espino, M.O. '24, Seafloor Mapper and Navigator of Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) aboard the E/V Nautilus
• How did freshened water end up beneath the seafloor? Sediment collected by scientists may reveal answers - URI Professor Rebecca Robinson is studying freshened water extracted from unprecedented scientific ocean drilling operation
• While battling back from paralyzing accident, URI student searches for shipwrecks - Bonney operated the ROV Rhody on May 28 to remotely conduct a photogrammetry survey of the steamship Iona, which sank in Lake Ontario 1912.

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• Horseshoe crabs outlived dinosaurs. A debate rages on if they need more protections in RI - July 23, 2025 - The Providence Journal
• Study Reveals Coral Reef Food Webs More Vulnerable Than Previously Understood - July 23, 2025 - EcoRI News
• What’s Earth’s lowest point on land? - July 13, 2025 - Live Science
• Your PFAS Questions Answered by Professor Rainer Lohmann - July 11, 2025 - Technology Networks
• Into The Abyss: Scientists Capture First-Ever Images of Ultra-Deep Waters Near the Mariana Trench - July 10, 2025 - The Debrief

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