June 16, 2023 – Forbes
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URI doctoral oceanography student playing key role in microplastics research as part of ongoing The Ocean Race
URI GSO doctoral student Victoria Fulfer is analyzing samples collected around the world during The Ocean Race for microplastics.
Continue reading "URI doctoral oceanography student playing key role in microplastics research as part of ongoing The Ocean Race"New York City is sinking, and it’s not alone
GSO scientists found that New York City, just one of many growing coastal cities all over the world that is observed to be subsiding, is sinking at a rate of 1 to 4 millimeters per year.
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NYC is sinking under the weight of its buildings, geologists warn
May 17, 2023 – New York Post
Continue reading "NYC is sinking under the weight of its buildings, geologists warn"New York City May Be Sinking Under the Weight of Its Skyscrapers
May 17, 2023 – Architectural Digest
Continue reading "New York City May Be Sinking Under the Weight of Its Skyscrapers"Two URI faculty members named AAAS fellows
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has elected Clinical Professor and GSO alum Sunshine Menezes (Ph.D. 2005) and Professor of Oceanography Steven D’Hondt to the rank of AAAS Fellow.
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How does life exist far beneath the ocean floor in one of the deepest places on Earth? A group of scientists and students are in waters off Puerto Rico to shed more light on that question.
Continue reading "Life under pressure: URI faculty, students research microbes in Puerto Rico Trench"Microbes deep beneath seafloor survive on byproducts of radioactive process
GSO researchers find that microbes living in ancient sediment below the seafloor are sustained primarily by chemicals created by the natural irradiation of water molecules, with implications for the search for life on other worlds.
Continue reading "Microbes deep beneath seafloor survive on byproducts of radioactive process"Microbial diversity below seafloor is as rich as on Earth’s surface
For the first time, researchers have mapped the biological diversity of marine sediment, one of Earth’s largest global biomes.
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