Tag: pollution

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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Vetlesen Speaker Series: Measuring ocean warming — Sept. 27

Knowing how much and where the ocean is warming is important to understand how fast the atmosphere will warm and how much seas will rise. Gregory C. Johnson, an oceanographer at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, is an expert on measuring ocean warming—and now he’ll share his research during a […]

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URI receives $8 million federal grant to establish research center on chemical pollutants in drinking water

Nonstick cookware and firefighting foam are miles apart in their purpose, but they have one disquieting characteristic in common. Both products are made with chemicals that could be contaminating drinking water and posing a human health hazard. Fluorinated pollutants, or poly- and perfluorinated alkyl substances, have been used for more than 60 years in a […]

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GSO student receives national science scholarship to study pollutants in food chain, water, air

Anna Robuck is one of three recipients nationally It all started with the Little Mermaid, the charming Disney movie about a mermaid who dreams of becoming human. Anna Robuck’s endless childhood viewings led to an obsession for anything—books, videos, toys—about the ocean and its preservation. Now 29, Robuck is well on her way to protecting […]

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GSO’s Kenney and Nixon Receive EPA 2017 Environmental Merit Award

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded an EPA 2017 Environmental Merit Award to the late Scott W. Nixon, an oceanographer at the University of Rhode Island, and Robert D. Kenney, a marine research scientist at URI’s Graduate School of Oceanography, for their work as part of the Boston Harbor Outfall Monitoring Science Advisory Panel […]

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GSO’s McDonough profiled in URI’s Commencement 2017

Commencement 2017: URI graduate excels in research of pollutants in lakes, oceans Carrie McDonough earns Ph.D from Graduate School of Oceanography Shampoo makes our hair smell good, but at a price. Sweet-smelling tresses bring polluted waterways. That’s the conclusion of Carrie McDonough, who will receive her doctorate in oceanography from the University of Rhode Island’s […]

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Carrie McDonough wins international environmental chemistry award

“Organophosphate esters” is a mouthful to most, but for Carrie McDonough the cryptic words spell possible doom for ocean waters. McDonough, a doctoral student at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography, studies these flame retardants to find out whether they are polluting the ocean. Her conclusion: Yes. McDonough recently won the C. […]

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