Science Saturday: Exhibits on the Quad

A day of fun activities and fascination for ocean science begins here, on the quad. More than two dozen exhibitors will present the work, research and discovery that happens on the Bay Campus year round. 

Ocean Science 

  • Life at the Extremes 
  • Shore to Seafloor: Plastic Pollution in Narragansett Bay 
  • Rhode Island Coastal Hazards Modeling and Prediction
  • Diving Research at URI
  • Rocks and Cores: Secrets of the Ocean Floor
  • Instrument Development to Study Deep-Ocean Weather
  • Carbon, Oxygen and Our Breathing Ocean
  • Breathing Through Geologic Time
  • Ocean Food Webs
  • Chemical Magic
  • Seeding the Ocean with Little Robots
  • Corals and Climate Change
  • Hidden Marine Biodiversity
  • Lobster Land
  • Plastic Pollution and Studying Fisheries and Aquaculture
  • Sensing Sound Under the Sea
  • Earthquakes
  • Smart Ocean Systems Laboratory
  • R/V Narragansett Dawn

For the Ocean State… 

  • Rhode Island Sea Grant
  • Coastal Resources Center: Celebrating 50 years of sustainable seafood, healthy habitats and capable communities
  • The University of Rhode Island Foundation and Alumni Engagement 
  • GEMS-Net: Discovering Density
  • STEEP Progress on PFAS Challenge: Protecting Human and Environmental Health
  • Your Coast and the Challenges it Faces
  • Ocean Exploration: Inner Space Center and Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute*
  • Academics at GSO 
  • URI Marine Affairs Department and The Coastal Society student group
  • URI Marine Biology Program

*location Ocean Science and Exploration Center (OSEC)