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• URI Coastal Institute announces 2025 Emerging Coastal Leaders - Four GSO students & one staff member were recognized for their research that advances understanding of coastal and marine systems and supports evidence-based decision-making in Rhode Island, the region, and beyond.
• Celebrating the Fall 2025 GSO graduates - Ten GSO grads received their diplomas as part of URI's Fall Commencement ceremony.
• Study reveals opportunity to improve blue carbon measurements in coastal wetlands - URI professor co-leads research to re-examine how stored carbon is measured
• Free screening of new documentary spotlights Belizean women leading the fight to save a World Heritage reef - ‘Wealth Untold’ follows multigenerational network of women scientists, artists, and community leaders working to protect the Western Hemisphere's longest barrier reef.

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• Rhode Island Sea Grant’s Aquaculture Business Course Covers Industry from ‘Soup to Nuts’ - December 4, 2025 - ecoRI News
• North Allegheny graduate travels to Hawaii as part of effort to better predict severity, timing of volcanic eruptions - December 4, 2025 - TribLive
• URI taps geothermal energy for climate control for new Bay Campus labs - December 4, 2025 - The Providence Journal
• URI Researchers Find Smaller Amounts of Microplastics in Southern Narragansett Bay - November 24, 2025 - ecoRI News
• EPA Proposing New Pesticide on Crops Raises Alarm - November 14, 2025 - Newsweek

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