GSO, along with partners WHOI and UNH, won the competition for a new research ship. The (B)log explains why this is important for Rhode Island, why a coastal oceanographer is excited about this, and why the Rhode Island public should be very excited about the future of ocean research in our state.
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On October 18th, 2017, GSO Dean Bruce Corliss gave his annual State of GSO Address. Dean Corliss discussed the accomplishments over the past year and detailed the priorities for GSO moving forward. Download the State of GSO presentation here.
Continue reading "State of GSO – October 18th, 2017"Nonstick cookware and firefighting foam are miles apart in their purpose, but they have one disquieting characteristic in common. Both products are made with chemicals that could be contaminating drinking water and posing a human health hazard. Fluorinated pollutants, or poly- and perfluorinated alkyl substances, have been used for more than 60 years in a […]
Continue reading "URI receives $8 million federal grant to establish research center on chemical pollutants in drinking water"URI President David M. Dooley and GSO Dean Bruce H. Corliss hosted over 50 URI alumni and friends at an evening reception aboard the E/V Nautilus while docked at the Embarcadero pier in San Francisco. The event highlighted the important partnership between URI and the Nautilus, which is advancing oceanographic research, exploration and education across […]
Continue reading "URI, GSO Leadership Meet with Alumni in San Francisco"The University of Rhode Island’s research vessel Endeavor has carried scientists, students and teachers throughout the world’s oceans to conduct scientific research since its christening 40 years ago. Now it’s the public’s turn to glimpse the ship. URI’s Graduate School of Oceanography will offer tours of the vessel from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, […]
Continue reading "URI Celebrates 40th Anniversary of Research Vessel Endeavor with Free Tour Sept. 10"Governor Gina Raimondo with Professor Robert Ballard and Dean Bruce Corliss on a recent visit to the Graduate School of Oceanography. Governor Raimondo had an opportunity to get an overview of GSO activities and a tour of the campus.
Continue reading "RI Governor Visits GSO"Landlubbers are trying to reduce their carbon footprint, but what about seafaring souls? Making ships and ports green is gaining momentum throughout the world thanks, in part, to efforts by the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography. For the second time since the first Green Boats Workshop was held at Duke University in […]
Continue reading "GSO to Host Two-Day Workshop to Promote Ways to Make Ships, Ports Greener"Scholars from the University of Cape Coast in Ghana won the hearts—and hats—of University of Rhode Island professors during a visit this week to strengthen an academic collaboration between the two institutions. The five-day visit was part of a $24 million sustainable fisheries project led by the Coastal Resources Center at URI’s Graduate School of […]
Continue reading "Ghana scholars meet with URI President David M. Dooley, oceanography professors to strengthen academic exchange between faculty, students"The announcement that former Duke University oceanographer Bruce Corliss would be the next dean of the Graduate School of Oceanography was met with great enthusiasm. The news was reported by the Providence Business News, Providence Journal, and WRNI radio, and an Associated Press news brief on the appointment appeared in the New London Day, New England Cable […]
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