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Tag: Diana Fontaine

GSO’s Victoria Fulfer awarded the University of Rhode Island Graduate School Outstanding Doctoral Research Award

GSO is pleased to announce the recognition of two outstanding graduate students for their significant achievements as they graduate with doctoral degrees.

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Tagged as:Diana Fontaine research Victoria Fulfer

The things we do for science: A trek to the Southern Ocean

GSO researchers returned from an eventful two-month expedition to better understand the movement of heat across the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, the largest current in the world’s ocean.

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Tagged as:Ali Johnson Antarctica climate Climate Change Diana Fontaine Kathleen Donohue Physical Oceanography Southern Ocean

Investigating the secret life of diatoms

GSO alum Olivia Ahern’s (Ph.D. ’21) new paper on the diverse microbiome of diatoms is the culmination of over a decade’s worth of oceanographic research.

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Tagged as:Biological Oceanography Candace Oviatt Diana Fontaine diatoms Olivia Ahern Tatiana Rynearson

Welcomed home by calm seas

White superstructure of a research vessel, with a green deck in teh foreground. The ship is moving as evidenced by a small wake. THe wather is sunny with some clouds in the distance.

Read the third and final post from GSO Ph.D. candidate Diana Fontaine about her experience working on the NASA EXPORTS project in the North Atlantic.

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Tagged as:Biological Oceanography Diana Fontaine NASA EXPORTS

Fitting in science between the roaring waves and blustery wind

Read the second in a series of posts from GSO Ph.D. candidate Diana Fontaine who’s reporting from the North Atlantic about her experience working on the NASA EXPORTS project.

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Tagged as:Diana Fontaine NASA EXPORTS plankton

Pursuing ocean science in the midst of a global pandemic

View of the bow of a large research vessel tied up to an industrial pier, a sign in the foreground reads "National Oceanography Centre; University of Southampton"

Read the first in a series of posts from GSO Ph.D. candidate Diana Fontaine who’s reporting from the North Atlantic about her experience working on the NASA EXPORTS project.

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Tagged as:Biological Oceanography carbon Diana Fontaine NASA EXPORTS Phytoplankton Research vessel

High school student follows his passion for science at GSO

High school student Tyla Morin with his GSO mentors.

Tyla Morin, a student at the Met High School in Providence, R.I., spent the past academic year at GSO learning from his graduate student mentors what it’s like to be an oceanographer.

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Tagged as:Diana Fontaine Met School Phytoplankton plankton Samantha Setta Tatiana Rynearson

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