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• Explore GSO app lets users tour URI’s Graduate School of Oceanography from anywhere - Free app offers tours of Narragansett Bay Campus and historical information
• Underwater technology showcase brings ocean researchers and industry to URI Narragansett Bay Campus - The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute, based at the URI Narragansett Bay Campus, hosted an underwater systems and autonomy showcase with two blue technology companies, Sonardyne and Voyis, in early October.
• URI to join State Department grant to help feed the future in fisheries - Fisheries professor joined by Coastal Institute researcher looking at how to curb illegal, unregulated, and unreported fishing worldwide
• In Memoriam: H. Thomas Rossby (1937–2026) - In the summer 1963, Tom Rossby, then a young engineer, took on a question from one of the most influential pioneers in physical oceanography, Hank Stommel: Why does cold water sink in only a few polar regions yet rise slowly almost everywhere else? Rossby heated a tank of water unevenly from below. The water rose […]

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• Why Crozet: Like a Freight Train, Isabel Climbs - September 4, 2026 - Crozet Gazette
• Inside the Facility Advancing Ocean Robotics Research - August 26, 2026 - Lab Design News
• Rhode Island Predicts Coastal Storm Impacts with Real-Time GIS Tool - August 23, 2026 - esri
• How AI is Reshaping Ocean Science - August 20, 2026 - New Bedford Light
• How volunteers and researchers at URI work together to better understand our environment - August 10, 2026 - RI Current

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