{"id":191163,"date":"2025-09-08T14:15:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T18:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/?p=191163"},"modified":"2025-09-10T14:36:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T18:36:25","slug":"the-enduring-legacy-of-john-knauss-still-leading-us-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/news\/the-enduring-legacy-of-john-knauss-still-leading-us-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"The Enduring Legacy of John Knauss, Still Leading Us Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em><strong>Commemorating the 100th birthday of an ocean visionary<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>On September 6th, 2025, alumni, faculty, students, staff and friends of the Graduate School of Oceanography gathered to honor the legacy of the late Dr. John Knauss, visionary marine scientist and founding dean of GSO, whose 100th birthday would have been on September 1, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The day began with tours of the Bay Campus to highlight some of the unique facilities at GSO. Later, a panel discussion featured reflections on the pioneering contributions Dr. Knauss made to URI and oceanography, and how his vision continues to inspire the rapidly expanding field of ocean science, generations of ocean leaders, and growth at GSO and the Narragansett Bay Campus. The panel included:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"cl-wrapper cl-card-wrapper\"><a class=\"cl-card   right\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MfmMZvbMyxQ\" title=\"\"><div class=\"cl-card-container media\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/2025-Knauss-100-27.jpg\" srcset=\"\" alt=\"\"><\/div><div class=\"cl-card-container text\"><div class=\"cl-card-text\"><h2>Watch the panel discussion<\/h2><\/div><\/div><div class=\"cl-card-container button\">WAtch now<\/div><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Margaret Leinen, Ph.D. \u201980<\/strong>, Director of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/scripps.ucsd.edu\/about\/leadership\/directors-biography__;!!Jh1S!gteJbE12rgW0UexMXPn-EEVJGEWvfHjYhjGqIi5iuul59KzI6bHob6xHD-U_rzzEN-vxSn_NiM9L73Ub3QCUrIE$\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>James A. Yoder, M.S. \u201974, Ph.D. \u201979<\/strong>, professor emeritus at the University of Rhode Island and dean emeritus at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and committee co-chair for \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/www.nationalacademies.org\/our-work\/2025-2035-decadal-survey-of-ocean-sciences-for-the-national-science-foundation__;!!Jh1S!gteJbE12rgW0UexMXPn-EEVJGEWvfHjYhjGqIi5iuul59KzI6bHob6xHD-U_rzzEN-vxSn_NiM9L73UbGyPeP4s$\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Forecasting the Ocean: The 2025\u20132035 Decade of Ocean Science<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Matthew Horn, Ph.D. \u201911<\/strong>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/www.rpsgroup.com\/about-us\/contacts\/matthew-horn\/__;!!Jh1S!gteJbE12rgW0UexMXPn-EEVJGEWvfHjYhjGqIi5iuul59KzI6bHob6xHD-U_rzzEN-vxSn_NiM9L73UbAB7zRYI$\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Business Unit Lead and Principal Scientist, Tetra Tech \u2013 RPS; Chair, GSO Advisory Council<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Erin K. Peck<\/strong>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/meet\/erin-k-peck\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Assistant Professor at GSO<\/a>&nbsp;with a specialty in coastal marine geology and geophysics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>And a special pre-recorded message from former GSO Dean<strong>\u00a0Robert Duce<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Guests were invited to stay for a reception following the program, where the GSO community gathered and reconnected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 6th, 2025, alumni, faculty, students, staff and friends of GSO gathered to honor the legacy of the late Dr. John Knauss, visionary marine scientist and founding dean of GSO, whose 100th birthday would have been on September 1, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4762,"featured_media":191165,"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-191163","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\/191163","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=191163"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191181,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191163\/revisions\/191181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}