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Recent Faculty Publications
As is common practice for researchers around the world, URI GSO faculty and students share the results of their research with fellow scientists and society by publishing in refereed scientific journals. With so many people conducting so much research, it can be difficult to keep track of recently published articles. Fortunately, the URI University Libraries maintain a list of works published by GSO faculty and students at this link.
Continue reading "Recent Faculty Publications"Robinson Named Distinguished Lecturer
URI GSO Associate Professor of Oceanography Rebecca Robinson has been named a Consortium for Ocean Leadership Distinguished Lecturer for 2012-2013.
Continue reading "Robinson Named Distinguished Lecturer"URI oceanographers develop method for measuring the pace of life in deep sediments
Life Deep Below the Seabed
Life deep in the seabed proceeds very slowly. A team of scientists from Aarhus University (Denmark) and the University of Rhode Island has developed a new method for measuring this slow life deep down in the seabed. Their findings were published last week in the journal Nature.
Continue reading "Life Deep Below the Seabed"GSO Welcomes Brice Loose
The URI Graduate School of Oceanography welcomes its newest Assistant Professor, Dr. Brice Loose, to the faculty.
Continue reading "GSO Welcomes Brice Loose"Prof. Brad Moran to NSF
Prof. Brad Moran has been selected to spend the next two years at the National Science Foundation to serve in the Division of Ocean Sciences. He will help guide the merit review process for grant proposals dealing with chemical oceanography. He was selected after a national search for a program director.
Continue reading "Prof. Brad Moran to NSF"URI scientists: Precipitation variability in Northeast, Southwest linked in 1,000-year analysis
Emerging Contaminants
When a group of hazardous chemicals were detected in Narragansett Bay by Graduate School of Oceanography professor Rainer Lohmann and graduate student Victoria Sacks, the local media took notice. Lohmann was interviewed on Channel 12 and WPRO radio, and news stories appeared in the Providence Journal, Boston Globe, EcoRI, WBRU and elsewhere. The URI news release on the project can be found here.
Continue reading "Emerging Contaminants"GSO Grad Student Wins Award
GSO graduate student Victoria Paris Sacks was awarded 1st place by the Montgomery-Watson-Harza Consulting Engineers/Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors for her Master's Thesis "Validation of Polyethylene Passive Samplers for the Detection of Emerging Contaminants" in the Master's Thesis category. Her research, advised by Dr. Rainer Lohmann, focused on using a novel, low-tech method of measuring waterborne contaminants from personal care products, pharmaceutical, and industrial processes not previously known as pollutants (e.g. polybrominated diphenylethers, nonylphenols, and triclosan).
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