Hakai Magazine – October 4, 2024
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URI Study Finds ‘Forever Chemicals’ Flowing Between Arctic and Atlantic Oceans
January 16, 2024 – ecoRI News
Continue reading "URI Study Finds ‘Forever Chemicals’ Flowing Between Arctic and Atlantic Oceans"‘Forever chemicals’ are flowing between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, study finds
GSO’s Rainer Lohmann and his co-authors report the Arctic Ocean potentially exports as many PFAS to the North Atlantic Ocean as enters it, circulating the compounds around the world.
Continue reading "‘Forever chemicals’ are flowing between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, study finds"Using robots to study icebergs
Researchers from the University of Rhode Island and the University of Hawaii are collaborating on a robot-based iceberg mapping mission
Continue reading "Using robots to study icebergs"GSO’s Brice Loose heads to Norway on a Fulbright Fellowship
The oceanography professor and his family have headed to Norway this fall, where he’ll use a Fulbright Award to study greenhouse gasses beneath the sea ice in the changing Arctic.
Continue reading "GSO’s Brice Loose heads to Norway on a Fulbright Fellowship"Frozen Obsession on PBS
The Northwest Passage Project, based at the URI Graduate School of Oceanography, is pleased to announce the documentary film “Frozen Obsession” is being broadcast and streamed on PBS.
Continue reading "Frozen Obsession on PBS"MOSAiC Update: Gathering copepods from beneath the Arctic ice
GSO marine research scientist Robert Campbell’s research is the focus of a recent entry in daily blog for the MOSAiC expedition—the largest Arctic science expedition in history.
Continue reading "MOSAiC Update: Gathering copepods from beneath the Arctic ice"URI oceanographers to join largest Arctic science expedition in history
Four URI Graduate School of Oceanography scientists will soon join 600 other participants from 19 different countries as part of the largest Arctic science expedition in history.
Continue reading "URI oceanographers to join largest Arctic science expedition in history"GSO scientists discover abundance of plastic built up in sea ice collected in the Arctic’s Northwest Passage
A research team, led by the URI Graduate School of Oceanography, recently returning from a groundbreaking, 18-day expedition aboard the Swedish Icebreaker Oden has made a discovery related to plastics in the Arctic Ocean.
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U.S./Canadian team of experts, students to measure vital signs of polar ocean environment, offer real-time reports during 18-day voyage A team of natural and social scientists, led by the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography and supported by 25 post-secondary students from the United States and Canada will study vital signs of a […]
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