Tag: Inner Space Center

High school students share in ocean discovery through URI link to Ballard expedition

A large split screen within the Inner Space Center, with students projected on top and scientists projected below.

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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URI oceanographers explore world’s oceans to better understand underwater volcanoes, microscopic life, Arctic winds

View of sunset in the North Pacific from aboard a ship engaged in the EXPORTS expedition.

Scientists from GSO spent weeks at sea last summer on research expeditions designed to gain a better understanding of underwater volcanoes, microscopic life and Arctic winds.

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Bay Campus (B)log: Catalina Martinez: Exploring the Ocean and Sharing It With Us

From a young age, Catalina Martinez would study puddles on her street and wonder what was at the bottom of them. Now, as the Regional Program Manager for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s Office of Ocean Exploration and Research (OER) with an office by Narragansett Bay at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School […]

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URI’s Graduate School of Oceanography hosts NASA-led exploration of deep sea

A crew member of the E/V Nautilus launches the remotely operated vehicle Hercules into the ocean.

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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Senator Jack Reed and Admiral Timothy Gallaudet visit GSO

Left to right: Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and Acting Secretary, Rear Admiral Timothy Gallaudet, USN Ret.; Dean Bruce Corliss, URI GSO; Dr. Robert Ballard; US Senator Jack Reed. Photo by Alex DeCiccio.

On Friday May 18th, Senator Reed brought Admiral Tim Gallaudet, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and Acting Secretary, for a visit to GSO to discuss our future prospects with the NBC Master Plan, Ocean Exploration and our growing partnerships with NOAA. Admiral Dick West, GSO Advisory Council member, joined the meeting that […]

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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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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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