This past summer, Eva Lincoln was working in an unfamiliar place: a boat at the edge of the continental shelf, facing 12-foot swells and waking up at 2 a.m. to process water samples with tiny specks of phytoplankton in them. And she loved it. “Sleep was relative,” laughs Lincoln, a senior at Rhode Island College. […]
Continue reading "Ways of the Ocean Scientist"Author: skirby
Winter edition of The Current is here!
The Current is RI NSF EPSCoR’s bi-annual magazine, highlighting the scientific and engineering research of faculty and students at institutions across Rhode Island. This edition details the student research experience our annual Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF).
Continue reading "Winter edition of The Current is here!"The Jellyfish Life Cycle
By: Rebecca Helm, Brown University EPSCoR Graduate Student in Casey Dunn’s lab (Follow Helm on her blog and at Deep Sea News to read about all things jelly and the great ocean beyond) Every year New England beaches are invaded with sticky, stringy jellies, drifting leisurely through summer weekends, leaving painful reminders in their wake. But why is it […]
Continue reading "The Jellyfish Life Cycle"Understanding and predicting the microbiome of ecologically important species in a dynamic environment
Leads: Marta Gomez-Chiarri & Tatiana Rynearson, University of Rhode Island
Continue reading "Understanding and predicting the microbiome of ecologically important species in a dynamic environment"Investigating human use & public access in and around Narragansett Bay
Lead: Tracey Dalton, University of Rhode Island
Continue reading "Investigating human use & public access in and around Narragansett Bay"Dynamic optical response of SU-8 upon UV treatment
Ghanekar, A., Ricci, M., Yanpei, T., Gregory, O., Zheng, Y. (2019). Optical Materials Express, 8(7), https://doi.org/10.1364/OME.8.002017 (LINK)
Continue reading "Dynamic optical response of SU-8 upon UV treatment"Performance enhancement of near-field thermoradiative devices using hyperbolic metamaterials
Ghanekar, A., Tian, Y., Liu, X., Zheng, Y. (2019). Journal of Photonics for Energy, 9(3), https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JPE.9.032706 (LINK)
Continue reading "Performance enhancement of near-field thermoradiative devices using hyperbolic metamaterials"Patterns of diatom diversity correlate with dissolved trace metal concentrations and longitudinal position in the northeast Pacific coastal-offshore transition zone
Dreux Chappell, P., Armbrust, E.V., Barbeau, K.A., Bundy, R.M., Moffett, J.W., Vedamati, J., Jenkins, B.D. (2019). Marine Ecology Progress Series, Vol. 609, https://doi.org/10.3354/meps12810 (LINK)
Continue reading "Patterns of diatom diversity correlate with dissolved trace metal concentrations and longitudinal position in the northeast Pacific coastal-offshore transition zone"RI C-AIM hosts Team Science workshop, Feb. 21-22
This two-day course, designed by the American Institute for Biological Sciences, will provide participants with the skills required to become effective members of scientific teams.
Continue reading "RI C-AIM hosts Team Science workshop, Feb. 21-22"Tunable wavelength selectivity of photonic metamaterials based thermal devices
Tian, Y. Ghanekar, A., Liu, X., Sheng, J., Zheng, Y. (2018). Journal of Photonics for Energy, 9(3), https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JPE.9.032708 (LINK)
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