The GSO community is gearing up to celebrate 27 new degree recipients, first at the Annual GSO Shirting Ceremony then at the Graduate School Commencement Ceremony.
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Tag: Robert Ballard
Ocean explorer Robert Ballard will deliver URI commencement address
Ocean explorer and GSO professor Robert Ballard will deliver the keynote address for URI’s 136th Undergraduate Commencement from aboard his ship, the E/V Nautilus.
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Marine explorer and GSO professor Robert Ballard is looking back at his 50-year career of discovery by publishing a memoir, Into the Deep, recounting the backstories of many of his greatest adventures.
Continue reading "URI marine explorer Ballard publishes memoir, reveals dyslexia"Ballard, team off to Nikumaroro Island to look for Earhart’s plane
GSO professor Robert Ballard and his team aboard Ocean Exploration Trust’s E/V Nautilus are at Nikumaroro Island, a remote atoll within the Phoenix Islands archipelago to look for Amelia Earhart’s airplane.
Continue reading "Ballard, team off to Nikumaroro Island to look for Earhart’s plane"NOAA announces $94-million ocean exploration institute led by URI
NOAA to work with a consortium of five institutions, led by URI’s Graduate School of Oceanography, exploring and mapping more than 3 billion acres of America’s ocean territory.
Continue reading "NOAA announces $94-million ocean exploration institute led by URI"High school students share in ocean discovery through URI link to Ballard expedition
Posted on November 2, 2018 on URI Today NARRAGANSETT, R.I., Nov. 2, 2018 — Students in an engineering class at Central Falls High School can boast to friends that they were able to interact with scientists who were the first to observe last week’s rare discovery of thousands of octopuses tending their eggs 3,000 meters […]
Continue reading "High school students share in ocean discovery through URI link to Ballard expedition"Vote YES ON 2: Ocean Science for the Ocean State
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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From a young age, Catalina Martinez would study puddles on her street and wonder what was at the bottom of them. Now, as the Regional Program Manager for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s Office of Ocean Exploration and Research (OER) with an office by Narragansett Bay at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School […]
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