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@urigso.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 5:52 PM

#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.socialOct 1, 2026, 1:15 PM

#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.socialSep 30, 2026, 5:50 PM

This 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.

Group of people standing above an indoor test tank, watching a tethered green underwater inspection robot operate in clear blue water.
@urigso.bsky.socialSep 28, 2026, 6:09 PM

As 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.

Two people on a small boat at sea, wearing waterproof bibs and gloves, proudly holding a large freshly caught fish toward the camera under a pale morning sky.Smiling researcher holding a freshly caught squid by its mantle over a measuring board in a lab sink, wearing a plaid shirt and a black wrist brace while preparing the specimen for measurement.Person smiling on a fishing boat holding a freshly caught mackerel with orange gloves, wearing sunglasses, a pink beanie and red waterproofs, with fishing nets, trays of fish, and the sea visible in the background.Woman in a red rain jacket and blue gloves measuring and preparing a caught fish on a processing station aboard a small research boat at sea, with choppy water and seagulls on a foggy horizon.
@urigso.bsky.socialSep 28, 2026, 6:09 PM

🎣 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

Woman on a fishing boat smiling as she holds a large Atlantic cod, wearing red waterproof bibs and gloves on the calm open sea.Two researchers in waterproof jackets and blue gloves smiling on a fishing boat as they measure and prepare a caught fish on a measuring board, with knife, scissors and sampling tools nearby and foggy sea in the background.Smiling Anna crouched in a ship's fish hold, surrounded by a huge pile of freshly caught squid and holding several in each hand to showcase the haul.Smiling woman stands with arms outstretched in a tiled office hallway behind a large NOAA (U.S. Department of Commerce) floor emblem, posing cheerfully as if celebrating a visit to the agency.
@urigso.bsky.socialSep 25, 2026, 2:02 PM

🦞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.

Large live lobster laid on a weathered wooden board with antennae, showing large claws and segmented tail beside calipers used to measure its size.Student on a boat smiling while holding a freshly caught lobster with blue gloves and orange bibs, standing beside a crate of crabs and gear against the open ocean, demonstrating a commercial lobster catch.A blue-gloved hand holding a live brown-red lobster by the body with claws raised and the tail fanned, showing its antennae, segmented shell, and spiny claws.Three banded lobsters resting on a sunlit wooden dock as a fresh catch, with sparkling blue sea and an offshore wind turbine visible on the horizon
@urigso.bsky.socialSep 24, 2026, 6:01 PM

Congrats 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.

Smiling professional headshot of a woman wearing glasses and a silver chain necklace against a neutral gray background, with a caption indicating she is the Interim Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at URI's university graduate school of oceanography.
@urigso.bsky.socialSep 24, 2026, 1:01 PM

🌊 🌀 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.socialSep 16, 2026, 5:20 PM

When 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.socialSep 15, 2026, 1:48 PM

🔉 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

➡️ buff.ly/FFf5SRH

@urigso.bsky.socialSep 11, 2026, 7:01 PM

And 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.socialSep 11, 2026, 3:54 PM

#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.

Group of men socializing on a grassy shore beside a wooden boat; one man stands with hands in his pockets while another stands on the boat holding a mug, with trees and scattered debris in the background.
@urigso.bsky.socialSep 8, 2026, 6:42 PM

🌊 #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

Volunteer in a high-visibility vest labeled "Marine Debris Monitoring" and cap bends barefoot on a sandy, pebbled beach, picking up debris into a tote bag with the shoreline and calm sea stretching into the distance.A surveyor stands on the wet shoreline of a Nationwide Survey site in Rhode Island.600 pieces of glass collected at a Nationwide Survey site in Rhode Island Two GSO researchers in bright yellow safety vests and navy caps stand on a sunny beach, holding and inspecting a metal clipboard-like survey device as they conduct coastal fieldwork.
@urigso.bsky.socialSep 3, 2026, 6:11 PM

🌊 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