Latest Stories

• US Navy names future ship for URI alumnus, professor Robert Ballard - The U.S. Navy has announced that a future Pathfinder-class oceanography survey ship will be named in honor of URIGSO Professor Robert Ballard.
• URI researcher-led study opens oceans of possibilities - Newly developed macromolecular model of phytoplankton from University of Rhode Island professor Keisuke Inomura could have implications for climate research.
• Massive shark tooth discovered in samples from Pacific Ocean floor - In a shipment of rocks from about 10,000 feet deep in the Pacific Ocean, University of Rhode Island’s Marine Geological Samples Laboratory discovered a fossil of a shark tooth, which has since been identified as belonging to an ancient megalodon.
• GSO, Central Falls students find a little boat can go a long way - The miniboat Inspiration, a joint project of GSO and students in Central Falls, R.I., navigated its way for 9,300 miles across the Atlantic and was recovered on the coast of southern England.

Media Coverage

• This explorer must go down to the sea again - Read about GSO professor Robert Ballard's new memoir and personal revelations in this Boston Globe interview. 
• GSO alum featured on “Shark Week” - GSO alum Lauren Romeiro (M.O. 2017) and her husband Joe Romeiro were recently featured on a Shark Week show called “Return to Shark Vortex.”

Recorded Events

• URI Distinguished Achievement Award Recipient Lecture with GSO Alum Catalina Martinez - Watch a recording of the talk, 'Navigating a Sea of Options, Opportunities, and Obstacles: My Circuitous Journey to a Career in Ocean Science' from GSO alum Catalina Martinez.
• Student-Alum Networking Seminar – Truesdale, McManus, McNamee – “Three Trajectories to Fisheries Science and Management Careers in Rhode Island” - Three GSO alums shared their career paths and advice.
• Student-Alum Networking Seminar – Natasha Pinckard Dickenson “A Non-Traditional Path Along the Seafloor” - A GSO alum, Natasha Pinckard Dickerson, talks to students about her career path.

Publications

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• GSO Annual Report
• Aboard GSO