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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Happy #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.

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

From operating ocean technology to connecting with scientists at sea, these experiences introduce undergraduates to the research, facilities, and career paths they can explore at GSO and beyond! 🌊

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Students 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.

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

What’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.

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

In collaboration with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute and the University of Ghana, the team collected samples from two of these sites last summer. Photos show University of Ghana researchers pulling samples and recovering a sediment trap array!

Researchers from the University of Ghana pull samples from the ocean for their geochemical properties to be examined in the lab. (Photo courtesy Colleen Durkin, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute)

University of Ghana research team recovering a camera-equipped sediment trap array in summer 2026. (Photo courtesy Colleen Durkin, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute)

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Elin Torell on her new role as Interim Director of GSO Research! Part of the URI community since 2002, she most recently served as director of the Coastal Institute & PI of the NSF-funded Rhode Island Network for Excellence in Science and Technology (RI-NEST).

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

🌊 Meet R/V Warfish! A traditional 45-foot Downeast-style lobster boat, Warfish is equipped for coastal oceanography & supports research throughout Narragansett Bay & the Sounds. Today, Warfish hosted a demonstration of AUV acoustic navigation & tracking off Jamestown, sponsored by NOAA OECI.

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

URI's Deep Autonomous Profiler (DAP) is a lander/water-column profiler that collects measurements & samples from the deep ocean. It can measure temperature, salinity, oxygen, & density; capture video; record sound; & collect water samples throughout the water column or while resting on the seafloor.

Oceanographic crew on a ship lowering a yellow rosette water‑samplinglander through a gantry crane while team members in hard hats and life vests guide lines against a calm blue sea and sky.

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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.

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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.

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🎣 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.

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Here are just a few of the lobsters they've seen over the last field season! For the graduate students involved, it’s an early-morning, hands-on, and often challenging experience...but also a unique way to see science, policy, and the fishing industry intersect at sea. 🌊 ➡️ buff.ly/KMJdr2y

Smiling student showing off a large bright orange lobster while standing on a fishing boat, wearing a hooded sweatshirt and blue gloves, with open sea and distant wind turbines under a clear blue sky.

Three freshly caught lobsters lie on a sunlit wooden boat deck, the sparkling blue sea stretching to the horizon where an offshore wind turbine stands.

Gloved hand holds a freshly caught bright orange-red lobster by the tail over a boat crate, displaying its claws, legs, and long antennae.

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🦞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

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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.

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

GSO's J.P. Walsh & Mary Klimasewiski have brought this extensive dataset together in Rhode Island Beach Dynamics Over Decades, a new interactive website that incorporates monitoring data contributed by the URI Environmental Data Center, URI Department of Geosciences, & Eastern CT State University.

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🌊 🌀 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.

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🌧️ ☹️ UPDATE: Due to the strong nor’easter forecast to impact Rhode Island this weekend, we made the difficult decision to postpone Science Saturday. We're sad that we won’t see lots of smiling ocean fans this Saturday, but look forward to welcoming you to our campus soon. Stay tuned for updates!

A circular illustration of marine life and oceanographic instruments surrounded by text that says Science Saturday, Postponed due to weather.

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

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.

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

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

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

🌊 Check out the length of this deep-sea sponge! Spotted by the ROVs aboard E/V Nautilus more than 4,700 meters below the surface in the southwest region of the Wake Island EEZ, this Caulophacus glass sponge is home to several deep-sea associates. 🦑 🧪

📸 Screenshot courtesy of the OET livestream. NA181 is supported by NOAA Ocean Exploration via the Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute.

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The event, held down the hill from the Fish Building, unexpectedly sparked a beloved tradition that continues to this day! The 62nd Annual Boat Burning will be held this weekend.

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

#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.

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The fall 2026 semester is officially underway🐏 🌊 💙 Happy first day of classes! We’re excited for another year of learning, research, and community on the URI Bay Campus. 🌊

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

🌊 #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.

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Friday check-in! 🦀 On a scale of seafloor invertebrates, how are you feeling today? Drop your number below 👇 📸 Photo credit: NOAA Digital Archives

Mood scale using nine seafloor invertebrates (1–9) that asks how you're feeling today; a 3×3 grid of deep‑sea photos showing starfish, shrimp, crabs, brittle star, coral and other invertebrates.

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

🌊 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

Quilted abstract seascape with layered blue and turquoise patches suggesting water, a pale circular moon framed by dark cliffs above, undulating red and blue ropes threaded through yellow markers across the middle, and stylized brown kelp shapes at the bottom.

Surreal seascape with a swirling crimson vortex arcing from the sky into a vivid blue ocean, scarlet reflections across the water, a distant dark city silhouette on the left horizon and a lone white iceberg, creating an ominous, otherworldly mood.

Hanging mobile of abstract glowing green and blue organic forms—pods, tendrils and cell-like shapes—suspended from thin black wires to evoke microscopic or marine organisms against a gray wall.

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

🌾 Pairing Louisiana’s deltaic wetlands with Rhode Island’s salt marshes, a new project seeks to compare wetland resilience across the two states. URI recently received a $4 million NSF grant to co-lead a collaboration with LSU to improve coastal wetland management in both states.

Top shows a person steering a small motorboat down a narrow, tree-lined Louisiana bayou; bottom shows a wide, sunlit Rhode Island salt marsh with grassy wetlands and a calm reflective pool.

Eight colleagues standing spaced in a modern glass-walled atrium, smiling for a group photo in front of a tall built-in bookshelf and large windows.

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

#URIGSO hosted an exciting youth advocacy training workshop with Sea Youth & World Ocean Day! Young RI ocean leaders from The Ocean Project's inaugural Ocean State Rising Youth Advisory Board gathered on the Bay Campus to learn effective communication strategies & how to engage with decision-makers.

Students in the Graduate School of Oceanography lobby hold orange bandanas reading "Sea Youth" and smile for a celebratory group photo.

Students in a classroom workshop sit in small groups discussing and taking notes, with a projected presentation at the front and a laptop showing remote participants, indicating a hybrid learning session.

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The best part of Science Saturday? Ocean science in action! 🌊🧪🐙 Meet the researchers studying our ocean and coasts, see the equipment they use, and learn about marine exploration, discovery, science, and management through interactive activities and exhibits.

A researcher and a visitor examine clear cylindrical ocean sensor prototypes beside a yellow underwater glider, the reseracher explaining components while the visitor holds event literature and smiles.

A science demonstration sends a tall, foamy water plume erupting from a gray trash can while children and adults sit on a grassy hill watching with surprised and delighted expressions.

Visitors leaning over a shallow aquarium touch tank—an adult in a purple shirt holds a young child while two older children peer in and point, observing small marine life beneath colorful overhead pipes.

Child operates a joystick-and-button control panel to pilot a yellow underwater robot shown on a monitor at an educational exhibit, while staff and visitors stand and talk behind the table.

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

🌊 From the Bay Campus to the middle of the Pacific! The URI Undergraduate Admission team recently visited the Bay Campus and got a firsthand glimpse of what it’s like to do ocean science at sea through a special ship-to-shore interaction hosted by the URI Inner Space Center.

Large projected video call shows two headset-wearing presenters giving a live ocean-research talk while an audience sits at consoles with multiple monitors showing underwater footage.

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

🐟 Mystery catch! Can you name this rare species, caught this week during #URIGSO’s Fish Trawl Survey? For 60 years, GSO researchers have trawled Narragansett Bay to track the seasonal occurrences of migratory fish populations, and every once in a while, a warm-water visitor like this one turns up.

Small iridescent fish with a faint orange lateral stripe and black-and-white banded tail resting in an adult's open palm above a red fishing basket, demonstrating the fish’s small size and delicate markings.

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

🌊🏊 A Bay Campus tradition lives on: The 47th Dutch Island Swim! On Tuesday, 70 #URIGSO graduates, faculty, staff, students, & friends took to the water, setting out from the beach at the bottom of South Ferry Road for a 1-mile swim across the West Passage of Narragansett Bay to Dutch Island.

Large multigenerational group gathered on a rocky shoreline posing for a celebratory group photo after a swim and boating outing, with two small boats anchored just offshore and a calm bay under an overcast sky.

Open-water swimmers in bright caps and safety buoys grouped mid-channel swimming toward a past pier under an overcast sky, with a kayak and boats nearby providing support.

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

➡️ Read more about art and science at the URI Bay Campus: buff.ly/qLwDiUj

Stylized mermaid made of bold geometric forms and bright colors—pink circular head, flowing green hair, blue chest spheres and a turquoise tail—drifting through dense, golden kelp fronds in a textured, swirling underwater scene that feels playful and dreamlike.

Visitor stands in a small gallery examining vibrant abstract and cosmic-themed paintings on a white wall while holding a plate, with wooden benches below the artwork.

Smiling elementary student posing beside their bright blue painting of a breaching whale at a school art exhibition.

Visitors viewing a wall of ocean-themed student artworks at the Ocean View Art Exhibition in a small gallery; adults and children stand on a wooden floor studying colorful paintings and drawings.

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Across the URI Bay Campus, scientists & artists are collaborating to create new ways to connect people with ocean research. Not only do these projects broaden the audience outside those who are reading a scientific journal, but the collaborative creative process changes the collaborators, too. 🌊

Artist with long hair gestures toward a blue, ocean-themed mixed-media painting while two visitors listen in a small gallery under a spotlight.

Two ocean-blue mixed-media bowl sculptures evoking cyclonic currents and ocean instrumentation; the right bowl has a jagged rim with tall thin rods topped by red and blue beads suggesting Argo floats, the left bowl on a stand shows layered blue bands and short yellow markers.

An art installation projecting a large textured organic circle onto a wall while a small lit coral sculpture on a shelf casts shadows — part of an immersive sound-and-animation piece transforming Red Sea water temperature data.

Two men stand in a small gallery studying three botanical-tinged mixed-media paintings, one holding a drink and brochure with a shoulder bag, the other listening with his arms crossed.

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Ocean science doesn’t happen in isolation. 🌊 At #URIGSO, our research centers bring together scientists, engineers, educators, students, and partners to advance ocean exploration, coastal resilience, marine technology, and environmental solutions.

Collage showing coastal and ocean research and monitoring: hand holding small passive samplers, a shore control room video-link with a ship, staff using a CoastSnap beach photo-monitoring kiosk, two people paddling a dugout canoe, and a red autonomous research vehicle beside a survey ship.

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Want to tour the only operating nuclear reactor in Rhode Island during Science Saturday on Sept. 26? ☢️ MARITiMES subscribers are the first to sign up for special RI Nuclear Science Center tour before registration opens to the public. 📧 Next newsletter lands in your inbox tomorrow: buff.ly/jZ2TyyX

Aerial view of a Narragansett and tree-lined Bay campus, showing brick buildings, the box-shaped nuclear science center, parking lots and winding roads with houses, shoreline and the ocean beyond.

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Trawling for marine life aboard the Cap’n Bert = best camp day ever. 🦀🌊🐙 Is there anywhere more fun than GSO Oceanography Explorers Camp? We don’t think so.

Kids on a hands-on marine science field trip wear orange life jackets and blue rubber gloves as they excitedly hold and examine a small shark over a red sorting basket on a research boat, with seagulls and a distant bridge across gray water behind them.

A smiling child wearing an orange life jacket and blue gloves holds a small marine creature on a research boat during a hands-on educational fishing trip, with choppy water, a distant bridge, and seagulls visible in the background.

Young child in a yellow cap and orange life vest on a boat holds a small squid with blue gloves, inspecting it over a deck piled with caught fish while crew in waterproof gear stand by and the sea is visible beyond the railing.

Smiling boy in an orange life jacket holds a marine specimen with blue-gloved hands on a boat during a hands-on marine sampling activity, crew members assist and seagulls fly over the water with a distant bridge visible.

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

☢️ Ever wanted to tour the only operating nuclear reactor in Rhode Island? Join us for Science Saturday on Sept. 26 & explore the Rhode Island Nuclear Science Center. MARITiMES e-blast subscribers get early access to reserve these limited-capacity tours before registration opens to the public.

Promotional graphic reading "Science Saturday — Tour the Rhode Island Nuclear Science Center," over an aerial view of a coastal research campus with a blocky reactor building and trees next to the water.

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

🌊 Did you know University of Rhode Island was one of the first four Sea Grant Colleges in the U.S.? Thanks to the vision of #URIGSO's founding Dean John A. Knauss & Senator Claiborne Pell, who recognized that strong science, education, & community partnerships are essential to healthy oceans/coasts.

Man wading waist-deep in a tidal estuary using a long-handled clamming rake and purple mesh bag to harvest shellfish, while two other people work in the water behind him near a marshy shoreline.

A group gathered on a sandy beach beside a long rocky jetty stretching into calm water, people standing in a loose cluster under a pale sky.

Three people leaning on a wooden observation deck, looking out over a sandy beach and grassy dunes toward the ocean under a bright blue sky dotted with white clouds.

Group planning meeting on Shoreline Risk with participants seated around a table with maps and laptops.

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

🌊 Save the Date! Science Saturday returns to the URI Bay Campus on Saturday, September 26, 2026. Discover the fascinating world of ocean science through interactive exhibits, hands-on activities, & conversations with the researchers shaping our understanding of the ocean. web.uri.edu/gso/science-...

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

We're especially proud that Rhode Island Sea Grant at #URIGSO is a key partner in this effort alongside the Commercial Fisheries Center of Rhode Island, the Ocean Tech Hub, Rhode Island Commerce, and the University of Rhode Island.

Commercial fishing boat underway with a fisherman in yellow-and-blue bib overalls handling ropes amid piled wire traps and orange crates on deck under a clear blue sky

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

🌊🐟 The University of Rhode Island and regional partners have secured a $15 million National Science Foundation award to launch the NSF Seafood Engine. This initiative will strengthen fisheries, aquaculture, and seafood innovation across the region. Learn more: buff.ly/V87k2aJ

Fisherman in orange bib walks down a wooden dock beside crates of iced shellfish packed in red and purple mesh bags, with workboats moored and a calm Bay under a clear blue sky.

Person in waders standing waist-deep in water examining two oysters in one palm while picking up another with the other hand.

Small cabin boat flying an American flag cuts through choppy harbor waters against a rocky breakwater under a pale, overcast sky.

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Did you catch #URIGSO's Emmanuel Oyewole on @wpri12.bsky.social this week? 📺 Working in the McMahon Ocean Ecogeochemistry Lab, he is studying how offshore wind projects may influence Jonah crab populations & what that could mean for Rhode Island's fisheries. @leahbcrowley.bsky.social 🌊 🦑 🐠

WPRI's Leah Crowley & Emmanuel, after their interview, in the McMahon Lab.

Emmanuel being interviewed in the McMahon Lab.

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

🌊 Come along with us for water quality sampling at South Ferry Beach! Every week during the summer, volunteers from the Bay Campus collect water samples that are analyzed by the URI Watershed Watch Laboratory for enterococci & fecal coliform. We want to make sure our favorite beach is safe to enjoy!

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Tiny organisms, massive impact. 🌊🔬 #URIGSO Professor Tatiana Rynearson and the students in her lab study phytoplankton, the microscopic organisms that produce half the world's oxygen, absorb carbon dioxide, and form the foundation of marine food webs. ➡️ Read more buff.ly/qKdc6v2 🧪 🦑

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

There’s nothing quite like the summer in New England 🌊☀️🏖️🪻✨ Enjoy 30 seconds of sights and sounds from URI's Narragansett Bay Campus!

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

MC's research helps establish that baseline by sampling a variety of environmental compartments across freshwater, shoreline, & bay habitats. Sampling will continue twice a year for the next two years, helping researchers better understand how microplastics move through coastal ecosystems over time.

MC, outdoor in the grass, working with a sediment sample.

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

🌾🌊 #FieldworkFriday: What does a baseline presence of microplastics in Narragansett Bay look like? #URIGSO Ph.D. student MC Cicenia recently wrapped up the first field season of the SIMCoast (Socio-Ecological Impacts of Microplastics in Coastal Ecosystems) project. ➡️ buff.ly/FSIzlc0

Two students sampling for microplastics at the shoreline.

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

After earning both his master's & doctoral degrees at GSO, Sam joined the University of Delaware as a postdoctoral fellow under fellow GSO alum Andrew Wozniak, M.S. '04. That opportunity led to a 36-day expedition aboard #RVAtlantis and his first dive in the human-occupied submersible Alvin in 2025.

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

From PFAS in New Jersey rivers to black carbon in Atlantic Ocean sediments to hydrothermal vents nearly 13,000 feet below the sea surface, #URIGSO alum Sam Katz, M.S. '21, Ph.D. '24, has followed his curiosity wherever it leads. ➡️ : buff.ly/8aWAm9G

Sam holding his tools in a New Jersey mudflat.

Sam and his GSO advisor, Rainer Lohmann, in regalia on graduation day.

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