URI researchers estimate that in Narragansett Bay, the level of tiny plantlike creatures called phytoplankton has dropped by half in the last half century.
Continue reading "Long-term ocean sampling in Narragansett Bay reveals plummeting plankton levels: impact uncertain for local food web"GSO alum Olivia Ahern’s (Ph.D. ’21) new paper on the diverse microbiome of diatoms is the culmination of over a decade’s worth of oceanographic research.
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New GSO research concludes that different types of phytoplankton will react differently to increasing ocean temperatures resulting from the changing climate.
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GSO scientists depart for a five-day cruise to investigate the implications of a marine heat wave in the offshore waters of New England.
Continue reading "URI scientists investigate effects of marine heat wave on ocean life off southern New England"Tyla Morin, a student at the Met High School in Providence, R.I., spent the past academic year at GSO learning from his graduate student mentors what it’s like to be an oceanographer.
Continue reading "High school student follows his passion for science at GSO"Scientists from GSO spent weeks at sea last summer on research expeditions designed to gain a better understanding of underwater volcanoes, microscopic life and Arctic winds.
Continue reading "URI oceanographers explore world’s oceans to better understand underwater volcanoes, microscopic life, Arctic winds"GSO professors Susanne Menden-Deuer, Melissa Omand, and Tatiana Rynearson are among 100 researchers from 30 institutions who embarked on a month-long expedition to study microscopic organisms that live deep in the ocean and play a critical role in removing carbon dioxide from Earth’s atmosphere.
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