Art, design, science, & community merge in RI EPSCoR restoration project Tethered to wood pilings partially submerged in Providence Harbor off the India Point Park shoreline, a series of concrete sculptures lure the settling of shellfish larvae and any other manner of sea life that happen upon their surface. The mid-summer installation led by Rhode Island […]
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Rhode Island’s ‘best and brightest’
Undergrads present research at annual summer conference For 10 weeks this summer, more than 100 university and college students across the Ocean State, unconstrained by academic year burdens, trained their focus solely on research. They set out hypotheses, designed and redesigned experiments, wrestled with data, worked with colleagues, and learned from mentors and a series […]
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Cork Brook in Scituate, R.I., isn’t as far inland as you can get from the fabled coastline that gives the Ocean State its name. But, it might as well be. The stream meanders through protected forest, a rural outpost off the beaten path of the summer tourist throngs, making it a perfect reference, or pristine, […]
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“We forget what it’s like not to know the information; we’re forgetting that people are not in on the secret with us.” Rhode Island scientists from a variety of disciplines and at all stages of study and career, from undergraduate to faculty, stepped out of their comfort zone this summer and into a unique opportunity […]
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SURF’s up 2016: Rhode Island undergrads in research
“It’s a privilege for me to have gotten into this program.” Research fellow: Jeremy Hecker Hometown: Warwick, RI School: Community College of Rhode Island Fellowship: at University of Rhode Island Major: Associates degree, Science Mentors: Dawn Cardace, Abigail Johnson Project: Impacts of increased CO2 on carbon mineralization at microbe-mineral interfaces On paper, the acronym RI […]
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Research fellow: Courtney Conklin Hometown: Warwick, RI School: Salve Regina University Major: Biology, with environmental science concentration Research fellow: Katarzyna Kos Hometown: Braintree, MA School: Salve Regina University Major: Biology, with environmental science concentration Mentor: Jameson Chace Project: Response of near shore marine macroinvertebrate and small fish populations to climate driven sea level rise and […]
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“I don’t want to leave the lab. This has given me more clarity of what I want to do and what I want to accomplish.” Research fellow: Matthew Gabrielle Hometown: Bellingham, MA School: Roger Williams University Majors: Biology, Chemistry Mentor: Avelina Espinosa Project: Entamoeba spp. as models to explore the effects of environmental stress due […]
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Research fellow: Marguerite Kinsella Hometown: Basking Ridge, NJ School: University of Rhode Island Major: Marine biology; minor, Wildlife Conservation Biology Mentors: Lindsay Green, Carol Thornber, Stephen Licht Project: Monitoring harmful algal blooms in Narragansett Bay via ecological and aerial technology approaches and determining the impacts of climate change on the physiology of bloom-forming macroalgae The […]
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