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 […]

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Not your typical undergraduate class: #EndeavorLive

When 8 URI undergraduate Honors students took the course CSI:Oceans, they learned about whales, microscopic plankton, and how to explain their research to the world through telepresence while they were on a research cruise off Rhode Island.

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Schools join forces for ocean research

Providence Journal – New East Coast Oceanographic Consortium (ECOC), led by GSO, profiled. Other news outlets that ran the Associated Press story today include: Cape Cod Times The Day The Connecticut Post Hampton Union Stamford Advocate The Calendonian Record Greenwich Time Foster’s Daily Democrat Beaumont Enterprise Albany Times-Union Heraldcourier Bryan College Station Eagle WFXT-TV Fox 25 Boston […]

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URI creates consortium with two major institutions to operate Endeavor and submit proposal for new research vessel

Posted on April 16, 2018 at URI Today NARRAGANSETT, R.I., April 16, 2018—The University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography has created a consortium with two major institutions to operate the research vessel Endeavor for its final years and to jointly submit a proposal to operate a new ship, which would also be based […]

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Inner Space Center to broadcast ENDEAVOR LIVE!, an oceanographic research expedition off Rhode Island

Posted on March 28, 2018 at URI Today KINGSTON, R.I., March 28, 2018—Students from the University of Rhode Island Honors Program will depart Tuesday, April 3 on a six-day oceanographic research expedition, and you are invited to come along. Learn about their exciting research and directly ask the students and scientists questions during three live […]

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Graduate School of Oceanography Inner Space Center to visit Pawtucket middle school Nov. 17

From URI Today Posted on November 14, 2017 WHO: The URI Graduate School of Oceanography’s Inner Space Center, which is a national facility that supports ocean exploration and education. WHERE: Samuel Slater Middle School, 281 Mineral Spring Ave., Pawtucket, RI. WHEN: Nov. 17, from 9:45 to 10:30 a.m. WHY: The event will provide a unique […]

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