{"id":186862,"date":"2024-09-17T11:13:22","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T15:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/?page_id=186862"},"modified":"2025-08-15T10:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T14:42:09","slug":"biological","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/research\/biological\/","title":{"rendered":"Research: Biological Oceanography"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Study the ocean through the lens of marine organisms and how they interact with their environment<\/em>.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Biological oceanographers study the relationship between living organisms in the ocean and their environment. Our faculty and staff have expertise across specific organism groups such as microbes, phytoplankton, zooplankton, and fish, as well as the ecology of organism groups or ecosystems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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