NSF.gov – Potential effects of volcanic warming on ice-sheet melting and sea level rise still to be determined Full story: https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=295861&WT.mc_id=USNSF_51&WT.mc_ev=click Featured Image: The Pine Island Glacier meets the ocean. Photo by Galen Dossin, NSF.
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Researchers discover volcanic heat source under major Antarctic glacier
Surprising find plays critical role in movement, melting of Pine Island Glacier.
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Most college students spend their winter break taking it easy, or hitting the slopes with friends. Two University of Rhode Island students traveled 3,900 miles to Senegal to study mangrove trees. Marissa Wolfe and Colleen McCarthy spent nine days in the West African country as part of a J Term program offered by Brice Loose, […]
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The URI Graduate School of Oceanography welcomes its newest Assistant Professor, Dr. Brice Loose, to the faculty.
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