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In FY24, #URIGSO secured $47M in funding from partners and agencies like @noaa.gov, NSF, and USAID—supporting research that advances our understanding of the ocean and develops solutions to global challenges. 🌊 🧪

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🧪 @urigso.bsky.social is committed to #sustaiable #ocean #science. Are we going Geothermal? We will see.. Exploratory drilling to assess our resource took place last week. If sufficient we will look to use for our new Ocean Frontiers research lab building, slated to be done in 2027. 🌊🛠

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#Throwback: The Marine Ecosystem Research Lab (MERL) opened at #URIGSO in 1976! Candace Oviatt & Michael Pilson’s bold idea— land-based mesocosms (1.8m x 5.5m) replicating Narragansett Bay— has advanced coastal research for decades, shaping how we study ecosystem changes, nutrient dynamics & more. 🌊

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🌊 NOAA's Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute, hosted out of URI, is holding its 4th annual, virtual #BlueEconomy Career Exploration Fair for college students on February 25 & 27. Participants are encouraged to register for both sessions so they can network across all sectors:

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🌊 🦑 “We are trying to understand where that story of #PFAS in marine food webs begins.” - Asta Habtemichael, Ph.D. candidate at #URIGSO and 2025 John A. Knauss Fellow

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🌊🔬At #URIGSO, STEEP Superfund researchers are uncovering how #PFAS move through marine food webs: Jitka Becanova is developing a passive sampler to measure PFAS in shellfish using nanomaterials that mimic marine tissues. Asta Habtemichael is studying uptake mechanisms in plankton. 📖 buff.ly/4k8kQdZ

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URI has officially earned R1 research institution status! The community came together to recognize the hard work of faculty, students, & staff that made it possible. Shoutout to the Bay Campus community - great representation from #URIGSO, URI's Coastal Resources Center, & Rhode Island Sea Grant! 🌊

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💘 🚢 One more for all the seagoing ocean scientists and mariners out there... XOXO from #URIGSO 🌊💕

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❤️ 🫶 💘 🌊 💌 Happy Valentine's Day. With love, from #URIGSO. Giant tubeworms rely on billions of chemosynthetic bacteria that live inside them, converting hydrogen sulfide from hydrothermal vents into food. In return, the bacteria get a safe place to live—a perfect deep-sea partnership!

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Happy 1st Birthday PACE! On February 8th, 2024, at 1:33 AM ET, a brand new satellite was launched into space, and in the months since we have had access to unprecedented ocean color imagery. How have you used PACE in the past year? Send photos of you and your team for our #PACEsFaces celebration!

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"An Upgraded Alvin Puts New Ocean Depths Within Reach" 🌊😍 Newly retooled, already famous for so many fascinating new findings, Alvin is opening more of the deep ocean to direct human exploration. Thanks @kennarubin.bsky.social @whoi.edu et al. ! eos.org/science-upda... 🦑 ⚒️ 🧪

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🌊 Did you know that widely-used oceanographic tools like RAFOS floats, C-PIES, and the SOMMA system for measuring total dissolved carbon dioxide were developed right here at #URIGSO? These technologies—and many more—continue to advance ocean research worldwide.

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From inside the lab on our recent winter transect cruise on RV Endeavor (@URI-GSO), T. Crockford captured a full-blown bongo net as it was deployed.

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Decades of discovery fuel our R1-designated research 🐟 🔬 Long-term data is essential to understanding our changing ocean—and #URIGSO has been leading the way for years. 🌊

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The University of Rhode Island has officially joined the top tier of U.S. research institutions, earning prestigious Carnegie R1 status—the highest designation for research excellence. 🌊 @universityofri.bsky.social

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🪸🔹 Tonight! #GSO's Philip Yang is chatting about coral habitats in Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary. 🌊🐠 Join virtually to learn how coral cores & benthic landers help us understand past and present ocean conditions—and how this science informs conservation efforts. buff.ly/40PpCUK

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🌊 🧑‍🔬 On #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience, we celebrate women shaping the future of ocean science! At #URIGSO, our women faculty, students, and staff drive discovery and innovation daily. We're committed to inspiring the next generation of women oceanographers, researchers, and leaders.

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#URIGSO’s J.P. Walsh & @victoriafulfer.bsky.social traveled to Southwest Papua to study mangroves & seagrass meadows—ecosystems increasingly at risk. Working with local experts, they gathered data to protect these ecosystems, sustain local economies, & support coastal resilience. 🌊 buff.ly/42NKnTm

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🧪 See what some of us in the ocean state are thinking about! (Picture from the swell last weekend)

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🐟 🦑 🦀 🐡 Every Monday, #URIGSO researchers board the RV Cap’n Bert at Wickford Shipyard to continue a tradition dating back to 1959. With 65+ years of data, the GSO Fish Trawl Survey is one of the world’s longest-running studies of bottom fish and invertebrates. #oceanography #NarragansettBay 🌊

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#URIGSO is advancing knowledge of our changing ocean planet and developing solutions to the world's most important challenges. With the ocean as our ally, we empower world-class educators, students, and scientists. You can follow them with the #URIGSO starter pack ⬇️ 🌊https://go.bsky.app/CKWbDGC

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🚢 🌊 The newly upgraded #HOVAlvin can now dive to 6,500m, granting researchers access to 99% of the ocean floor for in-person exploration! 🌊 🦑 🔗 Read more in @eos.org from #URIGSO's @kennarubin.bsky.social & Adam Soule and @whoi.edu's Anna P. M. Michel : buff.ly/3Q3t9tz

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🧪 Amazing life forms at world's deepest known active hydrothermal vents, Beebe (aka Piccard) at ~5km depth on Mid Cayman Rise. We visited in person on 1st DSV Alvin Science Dives after its major deep diving upgrade. More pics in new article: eos.org/science-upda... 🌊 #WHOI #URI-GSO #NSF #ONR #NOAA

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🌊 #URIGSO's @erinkpeck.bsky.social, a coastal geomorphologist, studies the physical features of coastal areas & how they change over time. Her work focuses on the impacts of episodic sediment delivery events, sea-level rise, and human land-use change on salt marsh morphodynamics & biogeochemistry.

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Recently upgraded Alvin can now dive to 6500m. Read our new article about its capabilities, latest #deepsea science discoveries, & new milestones on its #science verification expedition 🌊🛠🧪. Thx to the entire whoi.edu Alvin team & funding from #NSF-funded #USONR @noaa.gov @urigso.bsky.social

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Remotely operated and autonomous vehicles offer valuable access to the deep ocean, but there is no substitute for direct human observation, write @kennarubin.bsky.social and Adam Soule from @urigso.bsky.social + Anna P.M. Michel @mars-lab-whoi.bsky.social. eos.org/science-upda...

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⬇️ #URIGSO’s Hongjie Wang & @jaimepalter.bsky.social are researching ocean alkalinity enhancement through coastal liming and its impact on coastal carbon dynamics & marine life. This fieldwork at Westerly's Winnapaug Pond is a key step in understanding #marinecarbondioxideremoval #mCDR! 🌊

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#URIGSO alum @anupaasokan.bsky.social, M.O. ’12, M.B.A. ’12, recently published a paper in Frontiers, “Marine Protected Areas as a Tool for Environmental Justice," where she challenges our current ocean management system. 🌊 ➡️ Read her interview with @taotaotasi.bsky.social : buff.ly/40Pr3DU

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🌍 Mangroves and seagrass meadows: they store carbon, protect coastlines, support biodiversity, and sustain local economies. Yet, they're threatened by climate change and human activities like deforestation and land conversion.

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🧪 #RVEndeavor, operated by #URIGSO & now at sea, is celebrating 49 yrs in service to the US Science community! I believe it is the longest serving ship in the US academic research fleet (managed by #UNOLS for #NSF). Kudos to the officers, crew, techs, & scientists who uphold this mission daily! 🌊

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The U.S. ocean sciences community faces a critical challenge with the shrinking Academic Research Fleet. Since the 1980s, the fleet has halved, leaving scientists at a global disadvantage 🚢 Good news: 3 new #NSFfunded RCRVs will soon bolster research along our coasts. ➡️ @eos.org: buff.ly/4juo2QB

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Three regional class research vessels are set to join the U.S. Academic Research Fleet, providing new opportunities for research along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and in the Gulf of Mexico 🌊 eos.org/articles/u-s...

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