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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 3h

🌊Through the Schlanger Fellowship, Molly will expand this work to the other side of the Indian Ocean to build a more complete picture of nitrogen fixation and productivity: buff.ly/vF16czm

Fellowships

The Schlanger Ocean Drilling Fellowship Program offers merit-based awards for graduate students enrolled in a Ph.D. program to conduct research using samples/data from the International Ocean…

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 3h

🎉 Congratulations to #URIGSO Ph.D. candidate Molly Robinson, who has been named a 2025–2026 Schlanger Ocean Drilling Fellow!

Molly's research focuses on nitrogen cycle changes in the southwest Indian Ocean across geologic timescales, studied by analyzing the nitrogen composition of foraminifera.

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 1d

➡️ A cornerstone of the RI Endeavor Program, RITAS embodies Endeavor’s enduring legacy of outreach, education, and community connection. Read more about outreach aboard Endeavor:
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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 1d

⚓️ Through the Rhode Island Teachers at Sea (RITAS) Program, K–12 educators have sailed on #RVEndeavor alongside #URIGSO scientists, marine technicians, and crew to experience shipboard science firsthand, bringing fresh lessons and curiosity back to their classrooms.

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 4d

#URIGSO’s Sophie Yates, Ahyoung Yu, and Laura Reed recently boarded the R/V Tangaroa off the east coast of Gisborne, New Zealand. The team recovered 12 CPIES that had been measuring slow slip events on the fault beneath the seafloor and deployed 4 more for a future project. ⚓🔬

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 6d

They’re deploying moorings, collecting data on Narragansett Bay, and collaborating on a client-driven coastal pollution scenario to address real-world challenges in applied oceanography.

Stay tuned as they dive deeper into data collection, modeling, & presenting their findings later this semester!

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 6d

🌊 Class Spotlight: Data, Models, and Boats, Oh My! 🚤📊

Freshman honors students in HPR 131G / H-OCG 150 are diving into ocean science their very first semester at URI, mentored by GSO graduate students and guided by Professor Chris Kincaid and Brian Caccioppoli, manager of GSO’s small boats program.

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 7d

🚢✨ Order your #RVEndeavor gear now through our online store! Choose from short- and long-sleeve shirts, crewnecks, and hoodies in a variety of colors & back designs.

🛒 Orders close October 13 — after that, everything will be printed and shipped straight to you.

Shop now: buff.ly/PmQDAIP

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 8d

#WhereInTheWorldIsGSO 📍 Deep Gulf, southeast of Louisiana

🌊 On board #RVPelican for cruise PE26-06: #URIGSO' Kathy Donohue, Junnan “Boris” Yan, & Randy Watts recovering instruments for a project that’s sharpening forecasts of the Gulf Stream’s Loop Current, work supported by the National Academies.

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 8d

Fewer than 0.1% of AGU members are recognized as Fellows each year, honoring individuals whose leadership, discoveries, and innovations have advanced Earth and space sciences. 📎 Read more about this accomplishment: buff.ly/g4b0BFP

GSO’s Steven D’Hondt elected AGU Fellow

AGU Fellows are recognized for their scientific eminence, demonstrated through breakthroughs, discoveries or innovations that advance the Earth and space sciences

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 8d

🎉 🌊 Congratulations to Steven D’Hondt, professor and interim dean of #URIGSO, on being elected a 2025 AGU Fellow! An oceanographer specializing in biogeochemistry/geobiology, he was selected for his exemplary leadership & influential research on microbial communities beneath the seafloor.

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 9d

A final homecoming ⚓️🎶💙

Last week, a crowd gathered at the Bay Campus Pier to welcome #RVEndeavor home from its final scientific mission. The celebration marked the retirement of University of Rhode Island's faithful research vessel after 50 years and more than 700 scientific missions. #NSFfunded

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 12d

🦞💙 Happy #NationalLobsterDay!

Meet the star of the Ann Gall Durbin Aquarium on the University of Rhode Island's Bay Campus: a rare blue lobster, found in the wild in about one in two million! 🦑 🌊

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Nick Pizzo @nickpizzooceans.bsky.social · 13d

Also read about this on Tom's blog! 🌊

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 14d

Forty years later, the Pegasus data still remains the most complete set of top-to-bottom, side-to-side measurements of the Gulf Stream! 🌊

➡️ More on the Pegasus cruises and Gulf Stream studies from #RVEndeavor: buff.ly/Vamkd9M

R/V Endeavor

Celebrating nearly 50 years.

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 14d

In the early 1980s, #RVEndeavor supported a series of cruises led by #URIGSO professor Tom Rossby to study the Gulf Stream. Using an instrument called Pegasus, researchers measured currents from the surface to the seafloor with centimeter-per-second accuracy.
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RV Endeavor in the Gulf Stream, summer of 1982

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 14d

Her work highlights the connections between oceans, extreme events, and human communities while advocating for climate justice and stronger recognition of the South Atlantic’s role in our changing climate.

➡️ Read more about this #URIGSO alum in #AboardGSO: buff.ly/bKQn0is

Extremely Driven

By Veronica M. Berounsky, Ph.D.’90 For Regina Rodrigues, Ph.D. ’04, the URI Graduate School of Oceanography wasn’t part of her original plan, but it quickly became a place where her research found…

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 14d

🌎 From researching South Atlantic circulation during her doctoral studies at #URIGSO to documenting severe marine heatwaves to helping organize COP30 in Brazil, Regina Rodrigues, Ph.D. ’04, has built a career dedicated to climate science and the Global South.

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Northeast US Shelf LTER @nes-lter.bsky.social · 19d

Thank you to the #RVEndeavor crew for your service, from the shipboard to the maintenance, you served our project graciously. We will miss you!

URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 19d

⬇️ From the very beginning, #RVEndeavor was a first responder to urgent ocean challenges. Explore more from the first cruise and other milestones as #RVEndeavor wraps up its final cruise before retirement: buff.ly/VIhLhAH

R/V Endeavor

Celebrating nearly 50 years.

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin @kennarubin.bsky.social · 17d

🧪🌊 R/V Endeavor, so central to the @urigso.bsky.social mission, returned home one last time, closing out 49 remarkable years of seagoing research with well-earned cheers for an amazing ship and crew. Is the ship's retirement a hint of broader things to come?

A packed pier as seen from Mosby center at R/V Endeavor's last homecoming on 20 Sept. 2025. Photo by @kennarubin.bsky.social

R/V Endeavor executes its last approach to its mooring at the GSO pier on 20 Sept. 2025. Photo by @kennarubin.bsky.social

A packed pier with onlookers, mostly from the local community, at R/V Endeavor's last homecoming on 20 Sept. 2025. Photo by @kennarubin.bsky.social

R/V Endeavor tied up at the dock amid much fanfare during its last homecoming on 20 Sept. 2025. Photo by @kennarubin.bsky.social

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 15d

📸 More from the Endeavor's return to campus: buff.ly/jeYQQYe

URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 15d

Welcome home, #RVEndeavor! 🚢 💙 After nearly five decades at sea, URI's research vessel is back from its final cruise. #ThankYouEndeavor #EndeavorForever #NSFFunded

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 19d

⬇️ From the very beginning, #RVEndeavor was a first responder to urgent ocean challenges. Explore more from the first cruise and other milestones as #RVEndeavor wraps up its final cruise before retirement: buff.ly/VIhLhAH

R/V Endeavor

Celebrating nearly 50 years.

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 19d

By December 26, Endeavor had launched its maiden science voyage: the first of four emergency cruises to study the spill. #URIGSO scientists deployed seabed drifters, bright yellow umbrellas with long pink stems, to track currents, predict the spread of oil, & assess impacts on marine ecosystems.

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 19d

🌊🚢 Just weeks after arriving at URI in 1976, #RVEndeavor was thrust into action. On December 15, the tanker Argo Merchant ran aground off Nantucket, spilling more than 7.7 million gallons of oil into the ocean, one of the largest oil spills in U.S. history.

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