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Crews continue to make steady progress on the Ocean Robotics Lab on URI’s Bay Campus.

A fisherman found MB Inspiration, built by GSO with Central Falls students, off the coast of Madeira, Portugal.

Melissa Omand launches Ocean Margins Initiative, study of the Northern Gulf of Guinea, in Ghana.

URI student integrates modern environmental science with generations of Indigenous knowledge - Earning Switzer Environmental Fellowship enables oceanography student to continue research while honoring Indigenous heritage
New autonomous vehicle helps advance understanding of the deep sea and its critical minerals - Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute, Orpheus Ocean, and Federal agencies partner on new deep sea technology
Alum Spotlight: Raul A. Gutierrez, M.S. ’23 - Raul Gutierrez’s graduate research at GSO, focused on DNA extraction and probe design, prepared him well for his current role as a Senior Environmental Laboratory Scientist at the Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH).
URI students discover historic shipwrecks - A team of eight students, scientists, and engineers from the University of Rhode Island recently returned from the first survey of known shipwrecks in the Lake Ontario National Marine Sanctuary.