The NES-LTER project integrates observations, experiments, and models to understand and predict how planktonic food webs are changing in the region, and how those changes may impact the productivity of higher trophic levels. Since 2017
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As part of their NES-LTER Data Jam creative project, these 6th graders from Newton MA wrote a song about Right Whales and held a bake sale to raise money for Whale and Dolphin Conservation. That's singing and dancing with data! @uslter.bsky.social @whoi.edu @urigso.bsky.social @wellesley.edu #nsf
Long term data is key to understanding, following, and predicting change. OOI has been an incredible asset. This is not ok.
Diana did her PhD research with NES and we're so proud of her Knauss work and her next adventures! @uslter.bsky.social
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Hey, that's our PI, Heidi Sosik! And she's just one amongst so many other women on our project making waves in ocean science and engineering! @uslter.bsky.social @urigso.bsky.social #nsf
After a short delay, our research team headed out for the spring transect cruise on the R/V Hugh R. Sharp. With room for only 14 scientists, no special guests on board like last spring, but we will get it all done! @whoi.edu @urigso.bsky.social @wellesley.edu @uslter.bsky.social Thank you #nsf !
NES-LTER Data Jam 2026 projects are rolling in! We love student creativity describing patterns and reasoning about data. Pictured: Scratch game designed by 5th graders at Morse Pond School in Falmouth MA, based on NMFS trawl data. tinyurl.com/NES-LTERData... @uslter.bsky.social @whoi.edu
Super interesting work by our Post-Doc, Lucas Medeiros: A Nonequilibrium Framework for Community Responses to Pulse Perturbations - Medeiros - 2026 - Ecology Letters - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @whoi.edu @uslter.bsky.social #nsffunded
🌊 #URIGSO's Long-Term Plankton Time Series is one of the most valuable continuous records of ocean ecosystem change in the world. Each week, researchers head out on Narragansett Bay to collect samples that track shifts in plankton communities, nutrient cycles, & the health of our changing ocean. 🦑🧪
This week, our scientists are out on R/V Neil Armstrong for the Future Fishery Alliance's inaugural research cruise!
They're gathering data from the Gulf of Maine, a traditionally rich fishing ground that's warming faster than most of the world ocean
🎣 Learn more: go.whoi.edu/fisheryalliance
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Trump Administration to Remove Hundreds of Deep-Ocean Observation Instruments, Dismantling $368 Million Program eos.org/research-and...
#URIGSO alum Diana Fontaine, Ph.D. ’24, shares how her year as a Sea Grant Knauss Marine Policy Fellow allowed her to bring her ocean science background into the policy world, making a real-world impact in the office of Congresswoman @dorismatsui.bsky.social 🌊 🧪 🦑
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The Trump administration’s National Science Foundation (NSF) has begun dismantling the infrastructure of a $368 million deep-ocean observing program critical to monitoring marine ecosystems, global cu...
Happy International Women's Day—from all of us making waves in ocean science and engineering! 🌊💪🏽💐
#IWD2026 #WomenInSTEM
URI Graduate School of Oceanography
Susanne Menden-Deuer
Are you interested in climate change, fisheries & marine resource management? 🌊 🐟 Then I highly recommend recent paper by Malin Pinsky @ucscscience.bsky.social and Sarah Smith @universityofri.bsky.social @urigso.bsky.social
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
With novel ocean conditions rapidly appearing as the result of climate change, basing decisions about fisheries and other ocean activities on historical conditions is no longer tenable. There is inst...
