Several URI community members traveled to Indonesia to celebrate a half century of partnership and knowledge exchange in a number of fields, including oceanography.
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University of Rhode Island Professors J.P. Walsh and Rainer Lohmann discussed the wide-ranging impacts of ocean plastics and PFAS, or “forever chemicals,” in a recent public lecture at the URI Narragansett Bay Campus.
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Watch the first of GSO’s Public Lecture Series, featuring Coastal Resources Center director and GSO professor J.P. Walsh and GSO professor Rainer Lohmann. They discussed the dangers posed by marine pollution and “forever chemicals” called PFAS, and what we need to do to address them.
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Victoria Fulfer, a Ph.D. student at the URI Graduate school of Oceanography, has been awarded a 2022-2023 Fulbright U.S. Student Program Research Award to fund her work in Nha Trang, Vietnam.
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On February 3-4, 2021, the Ocean Decade U.S. National Committee will host a virtual event featuring Ocean-Shots, and several members of the GSO community will share their innovative proposals.
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URI Coastal Resources Center director J.P. Walsh gave a presentation to the URI Graduate School of Oceanography community on November 18, 2020 titled, “The Coastal Resources Center: Bringing Science and Solutions to Communities and Citizens.”
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URI’s Coastal Resources Center is leading a statewide initiative to document Rhode Islan’s robust “Blue Economy’’ – the vast array of businesses, industries and institutions tied to the state’s waters.
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