Three GSO alums shared their career paths and advice.
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Student-Alum Networking Seminar – Natasha Pinckard Dickenson “A Non-Traditional Path Along the Seafloor”
A GSO alum, Natasha Pinckard Dickerson, talks to students about her career path.
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How does life exist far beneath the ocean floor in one of the deepest places on Earth? A group of scientists and students are in waters off Puerto Rico to shed more light on that question.
Continue reading "Life under pressure: URI faculty, students research microbes in Puerto Rico Trench"GSO professor part of a worldwide study on impacts of bottom trawling on health of seabeds
A worldwide study on the impacts of bottom trawling, which accounts for a quarter of the world’s seafood harvest and can negatively affect marine ecosystems, has found that seabeds are in good health where trawl fisheries are sustainably managed.
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GSO alum Olivia Ahern’s (Ph.D. ’21) new paper on the diverse microbiome of diatoms is the culmination of over a decade’s worth of oceanographic research.
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New GSO research concludes that different types of phytoplankton will react differently to increasing ocean temperatures resulting from the changing climate.
Continue reading "URI researchers: Different kinds of marine phytoplankton respond differently to warming ocean temperatures"Unwrapping the mysteries of how aquatic species thrive together
GSO professor Roxanne Beinart is one of the leaders of the Aquatic Symbiosis Genomics Project, which seeks to understand how aquatic species thrive together.
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Read the third and final post from GSO Ph.D. candidate Diana Fontaine about her experience working on the NASA EXPORTS project in the North Atlantic.
Continue reading "Welcomed home by calm seas"Pursuing ocean science in the midst of a global pandemic
Read the first in a series of posts from GSO Ph.D. candidate Diana Fontaine who’s reporting from the North Atlantic about her experience working on the NASA EXPORTS project.
Continue reading "Pursuing ocean science in the midst of a global pandemic"Microbial diversity below seafloor is as rich as on Earth’s surface
For the first time, researchers have mapped the biological diversity of marine sediment, one of Earth’s largest global biomes.
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