GSO Ph.D. student Ali Johnson writes about, and shares photos from, a recent research cruise in the Gulf of Mexico with four other GSO scientists as part of an ongoing study on the Loop Current.
A team of five GSO scientists
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Researchers from the URI Graduate School of Oceanography were awarded a $2 million grant as part of a long-term research campaign to help improve understanding and prediction of the Gulf of Mexico Loop Current.
Continue reading "URI oceanographers awarded grant to study Gulf of Mexico Loop Current"From the Chronicle of Higher Education: For months after the world’s largest accidental marine oil spill killed 11 workers and spawned illnesses and economic stress around the Gulf of Mexico, scientists couldn’t answer basic questions about the disaster. How much oil was pouring from the Deepwater Horizon rig? Where was it going? How long would […]
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