Tag: chemical oceanography

Student-Alum Networking Seminar – Erin Markham – “Just Over the Bridge: Mapping the Path to a Career in Hydrographic Survey”

Erin Markham received her M.S. from GSO in 2015, and was a chemical oceanography student with Rainer Lohmann. She is now a hydrographer at Leidos in Newport, R.I. In this seminar, titled “Just Over the Bridge: Mapping the Path to a Career in Hydrographic Survey,” she discusses her academic and career path.

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GSO Marine Chemistry, Geology and Geophysics Lecture Series: Lihini Aluwihare, Ph.D.

Screen Grab of Dr. Aluwihare's presentation

Lihini Aluwihare, Ph.D., from Scripps Institution of Oceanography presents at GSO’s Marine Chemistry, Geology and Geophysics Lecture Series with her lecture titled
“Peering through new analytical windows at an old problem: marine dissolved organic matter composition and cycling”

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URI scientists to deploy Narragansett Bay Observatory for monitoring health of changing bay

A water-level view of Greenwich Bay above and below the surface.

Oceanographers, engineers and other marine scientists from URI are preparing to deploy an array of instruments in Narragansett Bay to monitor and predict the Bay’s health in the face of environmental changes.

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URI receives $8 million federal grant to establish research center on chemical pollutants in drinking water

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 […]

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GSO’s McDonough profiled in URI’s Commencement 2017

Commencement 2017: URI graduate excels in research of pollutants in lakes, oceans Carrie McDonough earns Ph.D from Graduate School of Oceanography Shampoo makes our hair smell good, but at a price. Sweet-smelling tresses bring polluted waterways. That’s the conclusion of Carrie McDonough, who will receive her doctorate in oceanography from the University of Rhode Island’s […]

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Carrie McDonough wins international environmental chemistry award

“Organophosphate esters” is a mouthful to most, but for Carrie McDonough the cryptic words spell possible doom for ocean waters. McDonough, a doctoral student at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography, studies these flame retardants to find out whether they are polluting the ocean. Her conclusion: Yes. McDonough recently won the C. […]

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