URI scientists to deploy Narragansett Bay Observatory for monitoring health of changing bay

Oceanographers, engineers and other marine scientists from URI are preparing to deploy an array of instruments in Narragansett Bay to monitor and predict the Bay’s health in the face of environmental changes.

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A vision for GSO (or why we must have a ship, why we can’t forget about coastal waters, and why we should celebrate April 27)

When URI President Francis H. Horn hired John A. Knauss as the founding dean of the newly established Graduate School of Oceanography, they definitely believed in “Think Big, We Do”, transforming the Narragansett Marine Lab by bringing in an ocean-going ship in addition to expanding the coastal programs. And it started on April 27, 1961.

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Roots, Holdfasts, and Anchors

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 […]

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2017 State of Narragansett Bay and its Watershed Summary Report

The Graduate School of Oceanography is delighted to announce the release of the ‘2017 State of Narragansett Bay and its Watershed Summary Report’. This report was developed in partnership between the Narragansett Bay Estuary Project, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission.  Numerous faculty and alumni from the Graduate […]

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NSF awards URI $19 million to establish statewide coastal ecology research consortium; GSO’s Rothstein to co-lead

The National Science Foundation has awarded the University of Rhode Island a $19 million grant to establish a statewide research consortium to study the effects of climate variability on coastal ecosystems. The funding builds on more than $30 million of previous NSF funding through its Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR), which aims to […]

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Cuban environmentalist to speak at URI, GSO for Distinguished Visiting International Scholars Program

Cienfuegos Bay in Cuba is one of the most beautiful coastal areas in the island nation, thanks, in part, to efforts by Cuban environmentalists like María Elena Castellanos González. González will share her expertise on coastal communities with the University of Rhode Island March 1 in a talk that is part of URI’s highly acclaimed […]

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