The Philippines is one of the largest fish producing nations in the world, employing millions and feeding the planet. Yet the industry is in peril, largely due to destructive fishing practices, typhoons and coastal degradation.

Daniel Achilles has had a lifelong fascination with the marine environment and a desire to spend his career learning more about it. “The ocean is a huge system, and there’s plenty out there still to be learned about it,” said the University of Rhode Island senior from Danbury, Conn. “Marine biology has always fascinated me, and […]

Please view the riveting 2018 Commencement address by URI Honorary Degree recipient Gina McCarthy. Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa Undergraduate Commencement Speaker. Gina McCarthy: An independent thinker, consensus builder, and informed expert, McCarthy served as administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under the Obama administration. While there, she led efforts to meet historic public […]

The University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography has created a consortium with two major institutions to operate the research vessel Endeavor for its final years and to jointly submit a proposal to operate a new ship, which would also be based at URI’s Narragansett Bay Campus.

It’s the size of a toolbox, and just as sturdy. It’s lightweight and even has a handle so it can be carried—quickly, if necessary—to different locations.

Exploring the sea bottom is a deep enough adventure for most mortals, but how about probing what lies beneath that?

Two University of Rhode Island students have been awarded the Ernest F. Hollings Scholarship from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the most prestigious scholarship awarded to undergraduates studying the marine sciences. Since 2009, URI students have won 25 Hollings Scholarships, at least one every year and one of the highest totals of any institution […]

Karla Haiat has already studied hammerhead sharks in Hawaii, tested oceanographic sensors in Florida, conducted laboratory studies of fish sensory systems in Rhode Island, and researched the carbon cycle in Georgia. Now the University of Rhode Island junior is headed to California for a prestigious summer internship at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute to […]

Harold “Bud” Vincent, associate professor of ocean engineering at the University of Rhode Island, stands before a sleek, solar-powered buoy that would look more at home as a satellite in space than an object floating in Narragansett Bay. The machine is one of many that in the coming months will collect data for a new […]

When Buddini Karawdeniya was a middle school student in Sri Lanka, she didn’t want to make the same, boring atom model that her peers constructed year after year.