Chowder and Marching

🎃 🦇 👻 Happy Halloween from @universityofri #URIGSO! And a shoutout to Chowder & Marching, #URIGSO's student organization, for bringing the festive spirit to the Bay Campus! @CandM_GSO

Another incredible Boat Burning event hosted by @CandM_GSO! Special shoutout to @hongjie_wang7 for delivering an inspiring speech. Don’t miss the spectacle! 🔥⛵

Yesterday I helped my bestie Kira, a NASA employee in Houston, with this letter she wrote following passage of Texas’ abortion ban. Her ideas resonated with me & I think they are worth a read. Voices are stronger together, so if you can, share this to show your support.

On its way to the Gulf of Maine for a research cruise under the direction of @PaleoBlueDot, #RVEndeavor passed through the Cape Cod Canal and by @MMAAdmissions. #MaineOSPREY2021 📸: Linda Armanetti (Captain Christopher Armanetti's mom!)

#URIGSO professor Steven D'Hondt joined the @geology_bites podcast to discuss being part of the team that discovered bacterial cells living in 100-million-year-old sediment. 🎧➡️ geologybites.com/steve-dhondt

A team led by @universityofri #URIGSO professor Melissa Omand found that, in addition to moving to deep water in the morning and rising as the sun sets, some zooplankton swim up and down in response to shifts in light due to cloud cover. (w/ @VIMS_News) web.uri.edu/gso/news/passi…

Be sure to congratulate the gold medalists when you see them on campus! Go Team PIES! @URIGSO

Athleticism at its finest

That’s a wrap on the first ever GSO summer Olympic Games! Thanks to all who came to compete. 9 events, 8 teams, lots of great outfits. GSO has some remarkable olympians in our ranks

They're smol. 🐙 They're striped. 🦓 And they're ... not squid??? 🦑 ow.ly/SFEX50FyrCG

📣 1-2 PhD student opportunities at Arizona State University, Tempe 🇺🇸 in the Global Water Remote Sensing lab starting in Spring or Fall 2022. Guaranteed funding for 4 years min., including stipend, tuition, & benefits. View full announcement ioccg.org/wp-content/upl…

Find out what URI doctoral student, Kevin Wong, learned from his work studying corals in Bermuda! 🌊 Read more at the link found here! 🐠 bit.ly/2UDLsN7 #CELS #STEM #SCIENCE

Happy #PhytoPhriday! Today I'm featuring #diatom Thalassionema cf. frauenfeldii [girdle view] from #NarragansettBay. Or is it a sea monster from the deep?! Image provided by @URIGSO Prof. P. Hargraves with artistic colorization by F. G. Darling (copyrighted) #phycologyfriday

Lots of sea urchins pulled up on the Gemma today!

The Ocean State has a shoreline trash problem. Plastics that litter the Narragansett Bay and Rhode Island’s coastlines threaten ecosystems. These plastics break down into smaller pieces until they reach their final destination, the sediments. Read More: ow.ly/5S5W50FFK0c

Congratulations to the three Rhode Island finalists for the 2022 Sea Grant Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship Program, which places early career professionals in federal government offices in Washington, D.C. Learn more: #knauss" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">seagrant.gso.uri.edu/our-work/marin… #knaussfellow

There are 156 known species of glass frogs living throughout the northern Andes and Central America. "These tiny wonders keep surprising us." on.natgeo.com/3x6oET7

We would like to remind all undergraduate and graduate students to submit proof of vaccination or request an exemption by August 16. Thank you to the more than 6,600 students who have already been vaccinated and uploaded their proof of vaccination! 💙 ➡️: bit.ly/3BPySei

Do you know which communities in Pennsylvania have been impacted by toxic PFAS contamination? View this interactive map from @ewg to find out. ewg.org/interactive-ma…