{"id":178252,"date":"2022-09-13T16:15:47","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T20:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/?page_id=178252"},"modified":"2025-09-02T10:49:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T14:49:32","slug":"get-to-know-gso","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/get-to-know-gso\/","title":{"rendered":"Get to Know GSO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Graduate School of Oceanography is a community of coastal and ocean scientists, engineers, students, policy experts, administrators, communicators and educators. Our Get to Know GSO<\/em> series is an introduction to the people who make this school such a special place!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New videos are posted to GSO’s Instagram<\/a>, Youtube<\/a> and Facebook<\/a> accounts — be sure to follow #GTKGSO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Made possible by the Devereux Ocean Foundation.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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GSO Students<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Frankie Lopez<\/h2>

Ph.D. student Frankie Lopez studies planktonic food webs on the northeast U.S. shelf with the Menden-Deuer Plankton Ecology Lab. Hailing from the West Coast, she found community at events hosted by Chowder & Marching, and is now the president! <\/p><\/div><\/div>

Get to Know Frankie<\/div><\/a><\/div>\n\n
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Izak Hill<\/h2>

Izak Hill is a Ph.D. student in the Lohmann Lab, a STEEP Superfund trainee, and an ORISE Research Fellow at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Atlantic Ecology Division. He combines his passion for fishing with his research on PFAS in aquatic ecosystems!<\/p><\/div><\/div>

Get to know Izak<\/div><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n
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Melissa Woodward<\/h2>

When Ph.D. candidate Melissa isn’t developing tools to measure contaminants in the air with GSO’s Lohmann Lab, she’s enjoying all the ocean state has to offer.<\/p><\/div><\/div>

Meet Melissa<\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Philip Yang<\/h2>

From grasslands to wetlands?! Before studying coral reefs at GSO, Ph.D. student Philip Yang was a biological science tech for the US Forest Service in South Dakota. <\/p><\/div><\/div>

Meet Philip<\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Lindsay Grose<\/h2>

Lindsay’s research focuses on understanding the process of “interleaving”\u2014when two different water masses, like warm salty water and cold fresh water, meet and mix. <\/p><\/div><\/div>

Meet Lindsay<\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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GSO Faculty & Postdocs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Kelton McMahon<\/h2>

Kelton’s research focuses on how food web architecture influences marine ecosystem function and resilience, and how climate change and human-environment interactions alter those relationships.<\/p><\/div><\/div>

Meet Kelton<\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Hongjie Wang<\/h2>

Meet Hongjie, assistant professor of oceanography at GSO. She studies carbon cycle responses to global climate change & anthropogenic stressors in different ecosystems.<\/p><\/div><\/div>

Meet Hongjie<\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Rainer Lohmann<\/h2>

Professor Rainer Lohmann works with GSO graduate students to figure out what happens to manmade pollutants, or forever chemicals, that contaminate our environment.<\/p><\/div><\/div>

Meet Rainer<\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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GSO Staff<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Azure Cygler<\/h2>

Drawing from her experiences as a commercial fisher, researcher, and coastal citizen\u2014and inspired by the passionate ocean farmers she collaborates with\u2014Azure launched Rhody Wild Kelp to cultivate sugar kelp, an ecologically vital native species with countless benefits, in Narragansett Bay.<\/p><\/div><\/div>

Get to know Azure<\/div><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n
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Princess Metuge<\/h2>

Meet Princess, our assistant dean! She’s the point person for building a culture that makes the Bay Campus a welcoming place for all.<\/p><\/div><\/div>

Meet Princess<\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Jackie Witterschein<\/h2>

At the URI Coastal Institute, Jackie serves as lead for the Climate Response Demonstration Sites, which test, monitor, and demonstrate ecosystem and community-response climate response strategies.<\/p><\/div><\/div>

Meet Jackie<\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Mackensie duPont Crowley<\/h2>

On team Public Engagement, Mackensie works closely with Bay Campus students, faculty, and staff to share their science in a way that is both salient and interesting to the public.<\/p><\/div><\/div>

Meet Mackensie<\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The Graduate School of Oceanography is a community of coastal and ocean scientists, engineers, students, policy experts, administrators, communicators and educators. Our Get to Know GSO series is an introduction to the people who make this school such a special place! New videos are posted to GSO’s Instagram, Youtube and Facebook accounts — be sure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2165,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-178252","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/178252","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\/2165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178252"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/178252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191098,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/178252\/revisions\/191098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}