Last summer, Danielle Jordan was manning the tanks at the URI Graduate School of Oceanography’s Blount Aquaculture Lab, examining how farm-grown oysters developed defenses to disease.
Continue reading "2018 SURF students arrive for new science experiences"In August 2003, over one million fish were killed in Greenwich Bay. Rhode Islanders were shocked, but what was the cause? State scientists knew—life in the bay was being deprived of oxygen because of dangerously high nitrogen levels from land sources like stormwater run-off and wastewater treatment facilities. Reducing these levels in Narragansett Bay has […]
Continue reading "RI C-AIM researchers getting handle on bay’s nutrients"For University of Rhode Island student Timo Kuester, trying to find a career in medicine back home in Germany was not working out. Little did he know, an online job test would set him on a path to study chemical engineering, and join a statewide project examining the effects of climate change on Narragansett Bay.
Continue reading "From Germany to Kingston: RI C-AIM, URI student finds path in engineering"For the past 30 years, Dr. Joseph DeGiorgis has been face-to-face with the vast variety of marine organisms living in the waters of Narragansett Bay as a scuba diver for the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole. Now, the Professor of Biology at Providence College is part of a collaborative effort among seven higher […]
Continue reading "What’s in the water? Cataloging the species of Narragansett Bay"URI’s Buddini Karawdeniya explains work with ‘nanostructures’, reflects on move from native Sri Lanka 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. Instead, she did something different, arranging lids of different sizes as energy levels […]
Continue reading "RI C-AIM student researcher ready to defend"Researchers developing ‘Bay Observatory’ through RI C-AIM project to better measure ecological changes Dr. Harold ‘Bud’ Vincent, Associate Professor of Ocean Engineering at the University of Rhode Island, stands before a sleek, solar-powered buoy which looks more at home as a satellite in space than floating in Narragansett Bay. The machine is one of many […]
Continue reading "Developing a molecular watchdog for Narragansett Bay waters"RISD grad student develops logo for new RI C-AIM initiative Ellen Christensen, a student at the Rhode Island School of Design, first scribbled sketches in her notebook. A new initiative through the Rhode Island NSF EPSCoR program needed a new logo. What would this new logo look like? What message should it convey? “They were […]
Continue reading "What’s in a logo?"“Now I know I definitely want to go into research. SURF gave me the chance to spend more time on my research and helped make the decision easier.” Research fellow: Emma Lederer Hometown: Millis, MA School: Providence College Majors: Biology, English A third-year Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow (SURF) with Rhode Island NSF EPSCoR, Emma Lederer […]
Continue reading "SURF’s up 2017: RI undergrads in research"Research fellow: Hannah Johnson Hometown: Woodbury, MN School: Providence College Major; minor: Biology; Neuroscience Hannah Johnson, a rising junior, spent her Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) studying the placement of animal propulsors in both flying and swimming species. “If the propulsor is closer to the head, does it give more thrust or what kind of […]
Continue reading "SURF’s up 2017: RI undergrads in research"“I think that pursuing this path has been me trying to prove to not only myself, but to everyone else, that someone like me can succeed in this field. I never thought I would have the privilege to do this.” Research fellow: Hannah Yi Hometown: Los Angeles, CA School: Brown University Major: Geology-Biology The Rhode Island […]
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