Tag: Inner Space Center

URI to kick off this year’s Ocean Sciences Meeting with spotlight on environmental justice

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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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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Scientists, students led by GSO conduct first live, interactive public broadcasts from Arctic Ocean

Swedish Icebreaker Oden at sea

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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Ocean and space exploration blend at URI’s Graduate School of Oceanography

he remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Hercules is launched from E/V Nautilus.

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

The RV Endeavor, the University of Rhode Island’s research vessel. Photo courtesy of the Inner Space Center. The RV Endeavor, the University of Rhode Island’s research vessel. Photo courtesy of the Inner Space Center.

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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