The public and classrooms around the country are invited to interact in real time with polar scientists conducting critical research in the region of the Western Antarctic Peninsula, which has warmed four times more than anywhere else on Earth.
Continue reading "Public, schools are invited to join live, interactive broadcasts from the Southern Ocean and Antarctic peninsula"Tag: Dwight Coleman
Ocean and space exploration blend at URI’s Graduate School of Oceanography
Scientists with a NASA-led expedition are operating from the Inner Space Center at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography as colleagues explore the deep Pacific Ocean to prepare to search for life in deep space.
Continue reading "Ocean and space exploration blend at URI’s Graduate School of Oceanography"NOAA announces $94-million ocean exploration institute led by URI
NOAA to work with a consortium of five institutions, led by URI’s Graduate School of Oceanography, exploring and mapping more than 3 billion acres of America’s ocean territory.
Continue reading "NOAA announces $94-million ocean exploration institute led by URI"High school students share in ocean discovery through URI link to Ballard expedition
Posted on November 2, 2018 on URI Today NARRAGANSETT, R.I., Nov. 2, 2018 — Students in an engineering class at Central Falls High School can boast to friends that they were able to interact with scientists who were the first to observe last week’s rare discovery of thousands of octopuses tending their eggs 3,000 meters […]
Continue reading "High school students share in ocean discovery through URI link to Ballard expedition"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.
Continue reading "URI oceanographers explore world’s oceans to better understand underwater volcanoes, microscopic life, Arctic winds"URI’s Graduate School of Oceanography hosts NASA-led exploration of deep sea
Scientists with a NASA-led expedition are operating from the Inner Space Center at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography as colleagues explore the deep Pacific Ocean to prepare to search for life in deep space.
Continue reading "URI’s Graduate School of Oceanography hosts NASA-led exploration of deep sea"URI oceanographers, scientists present latest research at AGU Fall Meeting
Earlier this month, faculty, staff and students from the URI Graduate School of Oceanography (GSO) were among hundreds of scientists presenting their research at the American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) Fall Meeting in San Francisco. With about 24,000 participants last year, the group’s 49th annual fall meeting is the largest Earth and space science meeting in […]
Continue reading "URI oceanographers, scientists present latest research at AGU Fall Meeting"GSO’s Inner Space Center credited for role in discovery of data recorder for El Faro wreck
GSO’s Inner Space Center won high praise from federal investigators today for its help finding the data recorder of the doomed El Faro cargo ship. The National Transportation Safety Board released a transcript of audio recordings from the data recorder, which the center helped locate in 15,000 feet of water off the Bahamas in the Caribbean last […]
Continue reading "GSO’s Inner Space Center credited for role in discovery of data recorder for El Faro wreck"URI Big Thinkers: Dwight Coleman
URI Press Release
Continue reading "URI Big Thinkers: Dwight Coleman"