Get to Know GSO

The Graduate School of Oceanography is a community of coastal and ocean scientists, engineers, students, policy experts, administrators, communicators and educators. Our Get to Know GSO series is an introduction to the people who make this school such a special place!

New videos are posted every other week to GSO’s Instagram, Twitter and Facebook accounts — be sure to follow #GTKGSO.

Made possible by the Devereux Ocean Foundation.

GSO Students

Jasper Meagher

Jasper recently won an AI poster competition hosted by the URI AI Lab & URI Center for Computational Research. He presented on the time, efficiency, and precision of the machine-assisted image annotation algorithm on Biigle.

Get to know Jasper

Jarod Snook

How did Ph.D. candidate Jarod Snook become a member of the Lohmann Lab & a STEEP Superfund trainee, with ambitions to join a federal emergency response team for chemical spills? It all started with a Google Search..

Get to Know Jarod

Melissa Woodward

When Ph.D. candidate Melissa isn’t developing tools to measure contaminants in the air with GSO’s Lohmann Lab, she’s enjoying all the ocean state has to offer.

Meet Melissa

Philip Yang

From grasslands to wetlands?! Before studying coral reefs at GSO, Ph.D. student Philip Yang was a biological science tech for the US Forest Service in South Dakota.

Meet Philip

Katie Roche

Before studying how diatoms interact with their environment at GSO, Ph.d. candidate Katie was a Peace Corps volunteer teaching middle school in Guinea.

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GSO Faculty & Postdocs

Steve D’Hondt

GSO professor Steven D’Hondt is best known for studying life beneath the sea floor. But how many salmon passed through his hands as a salmon processor in Alaska?

Meet Steve

Jonathon Cybulski

Jonathon studied ocean sciences abroad before returning home to Rhode Island, where he is an affiliated post-doctoral scholar in the McMahon Lab.

Meet Jonathon

Hongjie Wang

Meet Hongjie, assistant professor of oceanography at GSO. She studies carbon cycle responses to global climate change & anthropogenic stressors in different ecosystems.

Meet Hongjie

Rainer Lohmann

Professor Rainer Lohmann works with GSO graduate students to figure out what happens to manmade pollutants, or forever chemicals, that contaminate our environment.

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GSO Staff

Andrea Gingras

As assistant director of Public Engagement, Andrea Gingras oversees GSO Ocean Classroom – the education and outreach extension of GSO that brings current and relevant ocean science research to K-12 and public audiences.

Get to know Andrea

Amber Neville

As assistant director of URI Coastal Institute, she helps URI catalyze research, foster partnerships, and stimulate dialogue to support resilient and diverse coastal communities and ecosystems!

Meet Amber

Kim Ohnemus

Before working at the intersection of communities and science with Rhode Island Sea Grant, Kim Ohnemus was a Knauss Fellow for the NSF. Now, she’s RISG’s Research and Workforce Development Coordinator!

Meet Kim

Peter Hanlon

As the director of GSO Public Engagement, Peter leads a team of communicators and education specialists in connecting diverse audiences with ocean science and exploration.

Meet Peter
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