🌈 🌊 This Pride Month, we celebrate the vibrant contributions of the LGBTQ+ community in ocean science & beyond. Our strength comes from the diversity of our community, and we're committed to fostering a safe, welcoming environment where everyone can thrive, contribute, and belong. #ScienceForAll
Nathan Vinhateiro, Science Director of the URI Coastal Institute and a research professor at #URIGSO, spoke with @carlosrmunoz.bsky.social at the @bostonglobe.com about a new study investigating more than a century of coastal change on Block Island.
🔗 www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/08/m...
URI Graduate School of Oceanography
URI Graduate School of Oceanography
🌊 Happy World Ocean Day!
From crashing waves along our coast to the deepest parts of the sea. From microscopic plankton to vast ocean currents. From student fieldwork aboard small boats to discoveries made on research vessels around the globe.
The ocean connects us all. 🌎 #WorldOceanDay
➡️ Read the study here: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
This work from GSO's J.P. Walsh, Erin Peck, & Mitchell Starr supports efforts to better understand environmental change & guide future management decisions across the park & the nearby Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, both ecologically significant & deeply important to American history.
🌊 We had a great time celebrating World Ocean Day at @rwpzoo.bsky.social on Sunday!
Visitors joined us for hands-on ocean science activities, from slipping on a “blubber glove," testing their predictions with a sink-or-float challenge, to ocean science careers. Thanks to everyone who joined us!
URI Graduate School of Oceanography
URI Graduate School of Oceanography
URI Graduate School of Oceanography
URI Graduate School of Oceanography
As part of an ongoing National Park Service project focused on marsh migration, #URIGSO researchers established monitoring sites, deployed loggers/cameras, & measured elevations using RTK GPS and laser scanning technology at Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park in Maryland.
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A new study will decode over a century of coastal change, according to the science director of the University of Rhode Island’s Coastal Institute, and help bolster the island’s “physical and economic ...
#URIGSO researchers found that hurricanes can intensify winds over nearby ocean waters even while the storm’s center remains 60–120 miles offshore. As a hurricane approaches land, friction from the land surface slows winds onshore, creating an imbalance that can strengthen winds over the ocean.
Offshore wind asymmetry emerges ∼200 km away from the coast in an idealized axisymmetric hurricane simulation driven by land surface friction Momentum budget analysis shows gradient wind imbalanc...
