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• ‘Bridge to Ocean Exploration’ serves as pathway to URI for CCRI students - Developed and managed by the NOAA Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute (OECI), the B2OE program arranges for CCRI students to work on OECI research projects alongside URI graduate students, professors, and industry professionals at URI’s Narragansett Bay Campus.
• Where Science Connects Us: GSO at AGU25 - The URI GSO community will present its research at AGU25, from December 15-19 in New Orleans.
• Microplastics in Narragansett Bay: Hotspots, pathways, and solutions - Microplastics in Narragansett Bay are the topic of an online discussion on Nov. 13, sponsored by Rhode Island Sea Grant. (URI Photo / Michael Salerno)
• Mapping volcanoes’ ‘hidden’ structures may help predict severity and timing of eruptions - In an effort to predict volcanic eruptions sooner and more accurately, students from GSO are studying the rift zones of two of the most active volcanoes in the world, Hawaii’s Kilauea and Mauna Loa.

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• A skiing accident left a R.I. PhD candidate paralyzed. But he’s still exploring shipwrecks – and probing the ‘unknown’ - September 11, 2025 - The Boston Globe
• URI’s school of oceanography retires ‘Endeavor’ research vessel - September 10, 2025 - WPRI 12
• R/V Endeavor to ‘retire’ after half-century of oceanographic research - September 10, 2025 - Providence Business News
• Why are Alaskan salt marshes so special? It has to do with our climate - August 30, 2025 - Alaska News Source
• Horseshoe crabs outlived dinosaurs. A debate rages on if they need more protections in RI - July 23, 2025 - The Providence Journal

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