Join URI students on R/V Endeavor oceanographic research expedition, Earth Day April 22

Students from the University of Rhode Island Honors Program will embark on a six-day expedition aboard the URI Graduate School of Oceanography (GSO) Research Vessel (R/V) Endeavor to conduct ocean research – and on Earth Day, April 22, you can join them!

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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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A vision for GSO (or why we must have a ship, why we can’t forget about coastal waters, and why we should celebrate April 27)

When URI President Francis H. Horn hired John A. Knauss as the founding dean of the newly established Graduate School of Oceanography, they definitely believed in “Think Big, We Do”, transforming the Narragansett Marine Lab by bringing in an ocean-going ship in addition to expanding the coastal programs. And it started on April 27, 1961.

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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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