{"id":188714,"date":"2025-02-12T13:31:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T18:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/?p=188714"},"modified":"2025-02-12T13:34:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T18:34:33","slug":"decades-of-discovery-gsos-long-term-ocean-coastal-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/news\/decades-of-discovery-gsos-long-term-ocean-coastal-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Decades of Discovery: GSO\u2019s Long-Term Ocean & Coastal Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At GSO, long-term research is key to understanding how our ocean and coasts are changing. Our Fish Trawl Survey<\/strong> provides decades of insight into shifts in marine life, tracking fish populations and species changes over time. The Plankton Time Series<\/strong>, one of the world\u2019s longest-running surveys, collects critical environmental data from Narragansett Bay, helping scientists monitor nutrient cycling, water quality, and physical conditions. Onshore, the Beach Survey Program<\/strong> monitors Rhode Island\u2019s sandy shorelines, revealing patterns of erosion, sediment movement, and coastal change over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By collecting and analyzing data year after year, these projects help us see long-term trends, supporting smarter conservation and management decisions. Science takes time\u2014and we\u2019re in it for the long haul.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Plankton Time Series<\/h2>

Tracking the tiny organisms that sustain marine ecosystems since 1957.<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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Beach Survey<\/h2>

Monitoring shoreline changes and erosion along RI’s coast since 1961.<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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Fish Trawl Survey<\/h2>

Measuring fish populations and species shifts over time since 1966.<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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By collecting and analyzing data year after year, these projects help us see long-term trends, supporting smarter conservation and management decisions. Science takes time\u2014and we\u2019re in it for the long haul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4762,"featured_media":188719,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4762"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188714"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188729,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188714\/revisions\/188729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}