URI PhD students discover single cell organisms in an unlikely place.
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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.
Continue reading "Microbial diversity below seafloor is as rich as on Earth’s surface"URI scientists investigate effects of marine heat wave on ocean life off southern New England
GSO scientists depart for a five-day cruise to investigate the implications of a marine heat wave in the offshore waters of New England.
Continue reading "URI scientists investigate effects of marine heat wave on ocean life off southern New England"These researchers spent a winter trapped in Arctic ice to capture key climate data
GSO scientist Robert Cambell goes to the Arctic to make key biological discoveries.
Continue reading "These researchers spent a winter trapped in Arctic ice to capture key climate data"The Last Place on Earth We’d Ever Expect to Find Life
Steven D’Hondt comments on microbial life being found where living was thought to be inhospitable.
Continue reading "The Last Place on Earth We’d Ever Expect to Find Life"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"Learning from fish to spark innovation in ocean exploration
A conversation with Dr. George V. Lauder, the 2019 Graduate School of Oceanography Fish Lecture featured speaker who studies the ways in which fish swim.
Continue reading "Learning from fish to spark innovation in ocean exploration"The Ocean Is Running Out of Breath, Scientists Warn
Ocean oxygen levels are dropping, and that has big implications for marine life. GSO professor Karen Wishner’s research on zooplankton and oxygen levels is featured in the latest issue of Scientific American.
Continue reading "The Ocean Is Running Out of Breath, Scientists Warn"Studying the past, and predicting the future, of the Southern Ocean food web
GSO professor Kelton McMahon is on an Antarctic research cruise as part of a multi-year project to help scientists better understand how the Southern Ocean food web has responded to environmental changes in the past, and predict how the ecosystem might respond to a changing climate in the future.
Continue reading "Studying the past, and predicting the future, of the Southern Ocean food web"GSO researchers: Small changes in oxygen levels have big implications for ocean life
GSO researchers have found that even slight levels of ocean oxygen loss have big consequences for tiny marine organisms called zooplankton.
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