Professor Kendall Moore and GSO’s Inner Space Center selected to deliver opening presentation Feb. 15, 2024 The world’s premier gathering of oceanographers will begin next week in Louisiana with a little bit of a different opening, thanks to the University of Rhode Island. The throng of scientists will quickly get to the science but first, […]
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GSO Public Lecture Series: Oceans Tell Stories Through People
In an evening of art, music, imagery and storytelling, speakers presented an interconnected series of narratives that recenter identity & emotion in our understanding of the world’s ocean.
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Ocean explorer and GSO professor Robert Ballard will deliver the keynote address for URI’s 136th Undergraduate Commencement from aboard his ship, the E/V Nautilus.
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The University of Rhode Island announced that The Devereux Ocean Foundation, Inc. has pledged $250,000 to create the Devereux Ocean Foundation Fund for GSO.
Continue reading "Devereux Ocean Foundation supports GSO developing K-12 ocean science curriculum"Public, schools are invited to join live, interactive broadcasts from the Southern Ocean and Antarctic peninsula
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.
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U.S./Canadian team of experts, students to measure vital signs of polar ocean environment, offer real-time reports during 18-day voyage A team of natural and social scientists, led by the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography and supported by 25 post-secondary students from the United States and Canada will study vital signs of a […]
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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.
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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.
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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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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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