Twelve Rhode Island educators recently boarded R/V Endeavor for the R.I. Teachers at Sea program, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to become part of a scientific team conducting ocean research at sea.
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U.S. Senator Jack Reed announced $250,000 in new federal funding to initiate a shoreline protection project at the University of Rhode Island’s Bay Campus.
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Joyce Downey, Coordinator for Library Services at Pell Marine Library. has been there for 21 years and she knows that library very well.
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URI GSO oceanographers joined the crew of R/V Endeavor in February for the beginning of a 22-day expedition across the Atlantic. They completed their busy research schedule and returned home, all in the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic.
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In The New Yorker, GSO assistant professor Melissa Omand discusses how telepresence allowed her to be the lead scientist of an R/V Endeavor research cruise even though she was located on land at the Inner Space Center on the URI Bay Campus.
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Students from the University of Rhode Island Honors Program will embark on a six-day expedition aboard the URI Graduate School of Oceanography (GSO) Research Vessel (R/V) Endeavor to conduct ocean research – and on Earth Day, April 22, you can join them!
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Since its founding in 1961, GSO has been a leader in the study and exploration of the world’s oceans and has garnered significant national and international recognition of Rhode Island as a leader in oceanography and marine science. GSO has also focused on coastal environments that are so important to Rhode Island and the nation. […]
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A group of eight schoolteachers travel hundreds of miles aboard the R/V Endeavor on a three-day expedition designed to establish partnerships between ocean scientists, researchers and teachers who live and teach in Rhode Island.
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Bernadette Durkin, a 5th-grade science teacher at John J. McLaughlin Cumberland Hill School, joined seven other Rhode Island teachers for a three-day research expedition aboard the R/V Endeavor through GSO’s Rhode Island Teachers at Sea program.
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The National Science Foundation has selected the East Coast Oceanographic Consortium, led by the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography, to operate a new oceanographic research ship, one of only three such vessels in the nation.
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