{"id":165305,"date":"2021-01-22T14:49:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T19:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/?page_id=165305"},"modified":"2025-05-01T14:49:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T18:49:26","slug":"60-years","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/60-years\/","title":{"rendered":"GSO 60th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

GSO\u2019s 60th Anniversary<\/h1><\/div><\/div>
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Once URI’s Narragansett Marine Lab, the Graduate School of Oceanography has become “a major oceanographic institution”<\/em>\u2014realizing the vision expressed by founding dean, John Knauss, in 1961. In the 60 years since GSO was chartered under the leadership of then URI President, Francis Horn, countless research projects, hundreds of oceanographic voyages and more than a thousand advanced-degree graduates have issued forth from the Narragansett Bay Campus.<\/p>\n

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Sixty Stories, One Thing in Common<\/h2>

A series of profiles paint a picture of GSO.<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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An Illustrated Timeline<\/h2>

To imagine GSO's future, have a look at its past.<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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60 Years of Research<\/h2>

A long and proud history of innovative research.<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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