@urigso.bsky.socialHappy #NationalFossilDay! 🪸
Take a closer look at this coral specimen from #URIGSO's Marine Geological Samples Laboratory. Identified as Desmophyllum, a genus of stony coral, its intricate skeleton features ridges called septa that radiate outward from the center of each cup.
@urigso.bsky.socialStudents operated the manipulator arm used on ROV Rhody & piloted ROV Little Rhody in the test tank. The class also connected live with #URIGSO alum Andria Miller, M.S. ’23, aboard the E/V Nautilus, where she was serving as a Science Communication Fellow on an expedition to the Hawaiian Islands.
@urigso.bsky.socialWhat’s it like to pilot an underwater robot? 🤖
Undergraduates in #URIGSO Professor Roxanne Beinart’s Deep-Sea Biology (OCG 420) class are getting hands-on experience during visits to URI’s Bay Campus, exploring the Ocean Robotics Lab and Inner Space Center.
@urigso.bsky.social#URIGSO's Melissa Omand is using AI to uncover the chemical makeup of “marine snow,” tiny particles that drift through the ocean. The team is collecting images & physical samples across four regions: coastal Ghana, the equatorial Atlantic, the New England shelf, & the California Current.
@urigso.bsky.social#URIGSO researchers & their collaborators aboard the R/V Thomas G. Thompson are using these measurements to investigate how water moves through the Kermadec Trench, northeast of New Zealand, and how oxygenated water is renewed in one of the deepest, under-explored environments on Earth. 🌊
@urigso.bsky.socialThis week, #URIGSO hosted URI research administrators on the Narragansett Bay Campus. These professionals support faculty research in myriad ways, so it was great to show them firsthand how their crucial work makes ocean research, exploration, and discovery possible.
@urigso.bsky.socialAs a #URIGSO student, Mercer spent two years as the weekly Fish Trawl Assistant aboard the Cap’n Bert. Today, she serves as chief of NOAA’s Cooperative Research Branch and director of the Narragansett Laboratory, where she leads research that brings scientists and the fishing community together.
@urigso.bsky.social🎣 From Fish Trawl Assistant to the leadership of NOAA’s Northeast Fisheries Science Center Narragansett Laboratory: Meet #URIGSO alum Anna Mercer ’15, Ph.D., whose career has been built on collaboration and communication.
🌊 Read Anna’s story & how GSO shaped her career: buff.ly/dI2RGEb
@urigso.bsky.social🦞It's #NationalLobsterDay! Through collaboration with the Commercial Fisheries Research Foundation, #URIGSO students get to spend time offshore with local fishermen, collecting data on American lobster & contributing to research that helps us better understand/steward this important marine resource.
@urigso.bsky.socialCongrats to Dr. Colleen Mouw on her new role as Interim Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at #URIGSO!
Dr. Mouw earned both her M.S. & Ph.D. in Oceanography here & has been a faculty member for the past decade. She previously served as both Acting Dean & Associate Dean of the URI Graduate School.
@urigso.bsky.social🌊 🌀 What can more than 60 years of beach survey data tell us about coastal change in RI? With a nor’easter coming this weekend, it’s a timely question. Since 1962, #URIGSO researchers have monitored beaches along our southern coast, documenting shoreline change and how they respond to severe storms.
@urigso.bsky.socialWhen your undergraduate research assistantship sends you to remote Alaska... 🏔️🌊
For URI undergraduate Lilah Saunders, working as a research assistant in #URIGSO Professor Erin Peck’s MUD Lab meant an unforgettable fieldwork experience alongside a team of researchers in Alaska.
@urigso.bsky.social🔉 This morning on @oceanstatemedia.bsky.social Possibly Podcast, #URIGSO student Emmanuel Oyewole discusses his research exploring how offshore wind projects affect Jonah crab populations and what the findings could mean for Rhode Island’s fisheries. 🌊 🦑 @askpossibly.bsky.social
@urigso.bsky.socialAnd there’s a #URIGSO connection! 🔈 Rob Pockalny, marine research scientist at GSO and lead scientist for the current NA181 expedition to Wake Island’s deep sea, was on the Nautilus Live stream when the team made this discovery.
🔗 Watch the stream: buff.ly/8qyfesf
@urigso.bsky.social#Throwback to #URIGSO's first boat burning, September 1964! ⛵️🔥
M.S. student Donald Gordon owned an old sailboat, the Osprey, which was beyond repair. He offered it to the #URIGSO Chowder and Marching Society for a bonfire at a picnic they were hosting to welcome new students.
@urigso.bsky.social🌊 #URIGSO marine researcher Mary Klimaszewski and Professor J.P. Walsh are proud to support @Orchard and the NOAA Marine Debris Program with the first nationwide marine debris survey!
➡️ Learn more about the survey here: buff.ly/atrwaDu
@urigso.bsky.social🌊 The Synergy Project returns to Studio Blue at the URI Narragansett Bay Campus with Environmental Currents: Art and Science Explore Our Changing World. The new exhibition brings together artwork inspired by research from #URIGSO, URI CELS, and WHOI.
Read more: buff.ly/gCp2IB1