Tag: Robert Ballard

High school students share in ocean discovery through URI link to Ballard expedition

A large split screen within the Inner Space Center, with students projected on top and scientists projected below.

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 […]

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Vote YES ON 2: Ocean Science for the Ocean State

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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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Bay Campus (B)log: Catalina Martinez: Exploring the Ocean and Sharing It With Us

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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GSO’s Inner Space Center credited for role in discovery of data recorder for El Faro wreck

GSO’s Inner Space Center won high praise from federal investigators today for its help finding the data recorder of the doomed El Faro cargo ship. The National Transportation Safety Board released a transcript of audio recordings from the data recorder, which the center helped locate in 15,000 feet of water off the Bahamas in the Caribbean last […]

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URI’s Inner Space Center Helps Discover Voyage Data Recorder from El Faro Wreck

Federal investigators announced that they found the “black box’’ that could reveal why the El Faro cargo ship sank off the Bahamas in a hurricane last fall—and that the University of Rhode Island played a key role in the discovery. URI’s internationally acclaimed Inner Space Center at the Graduate School of Oceanography provided telepresence technology—and […]

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