URI student awarded prestigious internship to study underwater robotics

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 […]

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URI professor developing Narragansett Bay Observatory with colleagues across state

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 […]

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