Deb is working on deep-sea snail populations in the laboratory of Roxanne Beinart. #NSFfunded
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Meet the SURFOs: Samantha Vaverka
She is spending ten weeks in the laboratory of Dr. Bethany Jenkins where she is investigating the genetic composition of the Narragansett Bay phytoplankton community and testing for the presence of the natural toxin domoic acid.
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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.
Continue reading "Not your typical undergraduate class: #EndeavorLive"GSO’s Colin Jones Awarded Schlanger Fellowship
Congratulations to Colin Jones for winning one of four prestigious funding opportunities through the Schlanger Ocean Drilling Fellowship Program! Only the most innovative and imaginative research proposals, requiring scientific ocean drilling data, are funded through this program.
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Welcome to the Bay Campus (B)log. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, a blog is “a regular feature appearing as part of an online publication that typically relates to a particular topic and consists of articles and personal commentary by one or more authors”. But why (B)log? Also according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, a log is […]
Continue reading "Roots, Holdfasts, and Anchors"Scientist to discuss microscopic life on sea floor at GSO lecture, March 29
Beth Orcutt thinks microbes buried beneath the seafloor are “awesome” and wants to tell you about them. Some protect the waters by gobbling crude oil that sinks to the ocean bottom; others live deep in rocks that could help provide clues about how life developed on Earth. Orcutt, a senior research scientist at Bigelow Laboratory […]
Continue reading "Scientist to discuss microscopic life on sea floor at GSO lecture, March 29"GSO oceanographer studies microscopic organisms in world’s oceans
You can’t see them with the naked eye, but they’re all over the ocean: diatoms, single-celled organisms that drift on currents. These microscopic creatures are key to the planet’s health. They sit at the base of the food chain, feeding everything from zooplankton to fish. Through photosynthesis diatoms also regulate the air people breathe, and […]
Continue reading "GSO oceanographer studies microscopic organisms in world’s oceans"Red Tide Hits Narragansett Bay
by Ted Smayda The streaks and patches of rust-red water in Narragansett Bay and some coastal ponds the past month is because of a bloom of the planktonic, micro-alga Cochlodinium polykrikoides, a member of the phytoplankton. The phytoplankton harvest light energy and nutrients, and through their photosynthesis grow and bloom in the sea, serving as the […]
Continue reading "Red Tide Hits Narragansett Bay"Scientist, Graduate Students to Explore Limits of Life Deep Beneath Seafloor off Japan
How deep is Earth’s habitable region? Scientists from the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography will try to answer that question during an international research expedition off the coast of Japan. Arthur Spivack, a professor of oceanography, and graduate students Justine Sauvage, of Belgium, and Kira Homola of Washington State, are among the […]
Continue reading "Scientist, Graduate Students to Explore Limits of Life Deep Beneath Seafloor off Japan"Three Women Scientists From URI to Lead Expeditions This Year to Antarctica
Three women scientists at the University of Rhode Island will lead expeditions to Antarctica this year, thanks to winning highly competitive grants from the National Science Foundation. The expeditions aboard the research vessel Nathaniel B. Palmer reflect URI’s successful initiative to recruit more women to science faculty positions and create a welcoming environment for them. […]
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