J.P. Walsh and Victoria Fulfer are taking a community-first approach to create sustainable solutions that prioritize local knowledge and needs.
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GSO’s J.P. Walsh will join the panel to discuss how plastic pollution effects water bodies and marine life.
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GSO professor J.P. Walsh co-PI a new NSF grant to bridge international expertise and communities around mangrove/seagrass ecosystems.
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J.P. Walsh, director of URI’s Coastal Resources Center and professor at GSO, recently traveled to Mauritius as part of the Fulbright Specialist Program.
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Two GSO researchers estimate that the top 5 centimeters (2 inches) of the floor of Narragansett Bay now contain more than 1,000 tons of microplastics.
Continue reading "New URI study finds extensive microplastics in Narragansett Bay"Several URI community members traveled to Indonesia to celebrate a half century of partnership and knowledge exchange in a number of fields, including oceanography.
Continue reading "Recent Indonesia visit affirms a half-century of connection"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.
Continue reading "URI experts discuss the price of convenience: plastics and forever chemicals"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.
Continue reading "GSO Public Lecture Series: Confronting Ocean Polluion"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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