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URI leads team of researchers awarded $1.5 million NOAA grant

A 3D map of a coastal town showing flooding imapcts of a storm combined with different levels of sea level rise.

GSO professor Isaac Ginis is leading a four-year, $1.5 million grant through NOAA to study the effects of sea level rise and how it may exacerbate the impact of extreme weather.

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Tropical Storm Henri provides opportunity to test real-time storm modeling capabilities

Satellite image of a tropical storm approaching New England. THe storms is depicted in numerous color, ranging from blue at the outskirts to green, yelloe, orange, then red at the center.

Tropical Storm Henri was the perfect opportunity for researchers at GSO and the University of Rhode Island to test out the real-time storm modeling capabilities of the Rhode Island Coastal Hazards, Analysis, and Modeling Prediction (RICHAMP) system.

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