{"id":165086,"date":"2021-01-15T14:54:43","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T19:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/?page_id=165086"},"modified":"2026-08-31T16:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T20:04:11","slug":"gso-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/60-years__trashed\/gso-history\/","title":{"rendered":"GSO History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- iframe plugin v.6.0 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.knightlab.com\/libs\/timeline3\/latest\/embed\/index.html?source=1psBDOwB2-E9l6Ce4pYeDcMARGY2DvHgqQ6Jw9USes6Q&#038;font=Default&#038;lang=en&#038;initial_zoom=1&#038;height=650\" width=\"100%\" height=\"650\" 0=\"webkitallowfullscreen\" 1=\"mozallowfullscreen\" 2=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Read the narrative<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The GSO history that was started by Bob Sexton and which Jim Yoder updated through 1987 is now an online, open access digital publication accessible through the <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcommons.uri.edu\/\">URI digital commons<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n<a class=\"cl-button   prominent\" href=\"https:\/\/uri.pressbooks.pub\/yoder2026\/\" title=\"\">Read it here<\/a>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sexton, R.K. and J.A. Yoder, 2026. History of the University of Rhode Island\u2019s Graduate School of Oceanography, 1896-1987.\u00a0 Pressbooks,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcommons.uri.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Digitalcommons.uri.edu<\/a>, DOI:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.23860\/yoder2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.23860\/yoder2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Read the narrative The GSO history that was started by Bob Sexton and which Jim Yoder updated through 1987 is now an online, open access digital publication accessible through the URI digital commons. Sexton, R.K. and J.A. Yoder, 2026. History of the University of Rhode Island\u2019s Graduate School of Oceanography, 1896-1987.\u00a0 Pressbooks,\u00a0Digitalcommons.uri.edu, DOI:\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.23860\/yoder2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1726,"featured_media":0,"parent":165305,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-165086","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/165086","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=165086"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/165086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193888,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/165086\/revisions\/193888"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/165305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}