{"id":164255,"date":"2020-12-11T15:48:36","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T20:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/?page_id=164255"},"modified":"2024-12-16T14:20:05","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T19:20:05","slug":"logistics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/academics\/surfo\/logistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Program Logistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"cl-wrapper cl-menu-wrapper\"><nav id=\"\" class=\"cl-menu  \" data-name=\"SURFO Program\" data-show-title=\"0\"><ul id=\"menu-surfo\" class=\"cl-menu-list cl-menu-list-no-js\"><li id=\"menu-item-164312\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-164312\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/academics\/surfo\/\">SURFO<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-164300\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-164300\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/academics\/surfo\/successes\/\">Successes<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-164294\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-164294\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/academics\/surfo\/contact\/\">Contact<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-164291\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-164291\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/academics\/surfo\/about-gso\/\">About GSO<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/nav><\/section>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#important\">Important Dates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#student\">Student Stipend<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#housing\">Housing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#travel\">Travel<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_144538\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-144538\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/cohort2019cropo.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[164255]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-144538\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/cohort2019cropo-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/cohort2019cropo-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/cohort2019cropo-768x475.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/cohort2019cropo-1024x633.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/cohort2019cropo-364x225.jpg 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/cohort2019cropo-500x309.jpg 500w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/cohort2019cropo-1000x618.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/cohort2019cropo-1280x792.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/cohort2019cropo-2000x1237.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/cohort2019cropo-2560x1583.jpg 2560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-144538\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 2019 SURFO cohort.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"important\">Important Dates<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Application Deadline.<\/strong> N\/A\/<\/p>\n<p><strong>Acceptance Notification.<\/strong>&nbsp;Most applicants are notified of their acceptance into the program by April 1st. Final official notification of acceptance or rejection will occur by 15 April.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program Dates.<\/strong> The SURFO program has a 10-week duration that begins the first full week of June and finishes at the end of the second week in August. In some special circumstances, some degree of flexibility may be allowed for the start and end dates, i.e. for students on the quarter system, up to week, as long as the 10-week program is completed between June 1 and August 31.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"student\">Student Stipend<\/h2>\n<p>Students receive a stipend of $6,000 for the 10-week program. Additional funds are&nbsp;provided for housing. Partial to full reimbursement for travel is provided within State and Federal guidelines.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"housing\">Housing<\/h2>\n<p>Students are housed at <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/housing\/brookside\/\">Brookside Hall<\/a> on URI&#8217;s Kingston Campus. This campus is six miles from the Narragansett Bay Campus. &nbsp;Students will have their own bedroom and share cooking facilities and other amenities with typically three other SURFOs in the apartment. A video tour of the building can be <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/housing\/brookside\/\">viewed here<\/a> although the cafe on the video is not open during summer.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"travel\">Travel<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Travel to GSO.<\/strong>&nbsp;The Graduate School of Oceanography is easily accessible via plane, train, and automobile.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>By plane \u2013 T. F. Green Airport (PVD) in Providence (actually Warwick) is located about 30 minutes from the Bay Campus by car.<\/li>\n<li>By train \u2013 The Kingston, RI station (KIN) for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amtrak.com\/home\">AMTRAK<\/a>&nbsp;is located only 15 minutes from the Bay Campus by car.<\/li>\n<li>By automobile \u2013 Interstate 95 runs right through the middle of Rhode Island and the Bay Campus is a quick 20-30 minutes east of the interstate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Important Dates Student Stipend Housing Travel Important Dates Application Deadline. N\/A\/ Acceptance Notification.&nbsp;Most applicants are notified of their acceptance into the program by April 1st. Final official notification of acceptance or rejection will occur by 15 April. Program Dates. The SURFO program has a 10-week duration that begins the first full week of June and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1726,"featured_media":0,"parent":117807,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-164255","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/164255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164255"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/164255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187795,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/164255\/revisions\/187795"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/117807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}