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• Life in the deep Atlantic depends on the Labrador Sea - URI Graduate School of Oceanography researchers have pinpointed the source of oxygen that sustains deep sea life in the North Atlantic Ocean: the churning waters in the Labrador Sea. A new study published in Nature Geoscience on August 17, gives heightened significance to the Labrador Sea, sandwiched between Greenland and Newfoundland. There, waters from the […]
• An Invitation to Look: Art and Science at URI’s Graduate School of Oceanography - Across the Narragansett Bay Campus, scientists and artists are building work that reaches people a journal article never will. Along the way, it is changing the scientists, too. By Amirali Momeni, URI Ph.D. candidate On a weekday afternoon in Studio Blue, a physical oceanographer stopped in front of an image she could not place. It […]
• GSO to host the 2026 Physical Oceanography Early Career Researcher Symposium - Join the New England PO community for presentations from students and postdocs, connecting with other researchers, and science discussions about a wide range of physical oceanography topics.
• NSF Seafood Engine in New England wins $15M U.S. National Science Foundation award to strengthen fisheries and aquaculture - Collaboration includes the Commercial Fisheries Center of Rhode Island (CFCRI), the Ocean Tech Hub, Rhode Island Commerce Corporation, Rhode Island Sea Grant, and the University of Rhode Island.

Media Coverage

• URI’s ocean robotics hub feeds wave of innovation - July 17, 2026 - Providence Business News
• Offshore wind turbines create home for Jonah crabs in New England as lobster population declines - July 17, 2026 - WPRI 12
• State ‘Perfectly Positioned’ to Become World Center of Undersea Technology - July 9, 2026 - Newport this Week
• Feds will abruptly dismantle system monitoring climate change, oceans - June 10, 2026 - USA Today
• Expedition maps biodiversity of Indonesia’s remote seamounts - June 3, 2026 - Oceanographic Magazine

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