Tag: Bob Ballard

Ballard, team off to Nikumaroro Island to look for Earhart’s plane

Robert Ballard standing next to a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) aboard E/V Nautilus.

GSO professor Robert Ballard and his team aboard Ocean Exploration Trust’s E/V Nautilus are at Nikumaroro Island, a remote atoll within the Phoenix Islands archipelago to look for Amelia Earhart’s airplane.

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High school students share in ocean discovery through URI link to Ballard expedition

A large split screen within the Inner Space Center, with students projected on top and scientists projected below.

Posted on November 2, 2018 on URI Today NARRAGANSETT, R.I., Nov. 2, 2018 — Students in an engineering class at Central Falls High School can boast to friends that they were able to interact with scientists who were the first to observe last week’s rare discovery of thousands of octopuses tending their eggs 3,000 meters […]

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Vote YES ON 2: Ocean Science for the Ocean State

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Since its founding in 1961, GSO has been a leader in the study and exploration of the world’s oceans and has garnered significant national and international recognition of Rhode Island as a leader in oceanography and marine science. GSO has also focused on coastal environments that are so important to Rhode Island and the nation. […]

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