When the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of Exploration and Research sought to test out a new technology for producing high-resolution images of the sea floor, University of Rhode Island maritime historian and archaeologist Rod Mather suggested the perfect test sites – the resting places of four historic sunken submarines in Rhode Island waters.

The Rhode Island Consortium for Coastal Ecology Assessment, Innovation, and Modeling has announced the recipients of its 2018-19 Seed Grant program, which assists faculty at the University of Rhode Island developing innovative projects in STEM and arts and humanities fields. The grants will also foster research collaboration and build upon the consortium’s efforts in science communication […]

For the next three years, researchers from the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, the University of Rhode Island and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution will look into the ocean to help improve the quality of data collected by satellites more than 500 miles above.

Scientists from the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography spent weeks at sea last summer on research expeditions designed to gain a better understanding of underwater volcanoes, microscopic life and Arctic winds.

 College of Health Sciences Associate Dean Deborah Riebe has been elected to the National Academy of Kinesiology, one of only 165 active fellows in the organization.

The sciences and the arts are often perceived as distinct and disparate spheres, as different as fire and ice. Now, a student at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography has organized a series of events that brings those worlds together through creativity and exploration.

 University of Rhode Island senior Tailynn McCarty spent her summer at the Georgia Tech (Georgia Institute of Technology) in Atlanta, conducting bioengineering research.