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.
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Next-generation, wind-powered ocean drone launched from Newport Shipyard
An ocean-going, wind-powered Saildrone will soon be gathering oceanic and atmospheric observations as its follows the Gulf Stream to support a GSO study.
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GSO researchers have found that even slight levels of ocean oxygen loss have big consequences for tiny marine organisms called zooplankton.
Continue reading "GSO researchers: Small changes in oxygen levels have big implications for ocean life"URI oceanographers explore world’s oceans to better understand underwater volcanoes, microscopic life, Arctic winds
Scientists from GSO spent weeks at sea last summer on research expeditions designed to gain a better understanding of underwater volcanoes, microscopic life and Arctic winds.
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