January 23, 2023 – URI Today
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URI experts discuss the price of convenience: plastics and forever chemicals
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"Fantastic Bioplastic
What if there was a way to avoid the problem of plastic pollution while still reaping the benefits of a networked ocean? A group co-led by GSO’s Melissa Omand is about to put their biodegradable bioplastic to the test.
Continue reading "Fantastic Bioplastic"GSO student Victoria Fulfer awarded Fulbright grant
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.
Continue reading "GSO student Victoria Fulfer awarded Fulbright grant"GSO scientists discover abundance of plastic built up in sea ice collected in the Arctic’s Northwest Passage
A research team, led by the URI Graduate School of Oceanography, recently returning from a groundbreaking, 18-day expedition aboard the Swedish Icebreaker Oden has made a discovery related to plastics in the Arctic Ocean.
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