GSO in the News
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Titanic anniversary
The 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic has resulted in a huge number of news stories referencing Oceanography Professor Robert Ballard, who found the sunken ship in 1985. While most of those stories do not mention URI, many of them do. Among them are stories about a National Geographic documentary featuring Ballard in the London Telegraph, Straits Times, and Daily Examiner, stories about Ballard's desire to protect the remains of the Titanic in Yahoo News, New York Daily News, Vancouver Sun, USA Today, Detroit Free Press, London Telegraph, Hamilton Spectator, Ottawa Citizen, and Fox TV/Boston, the state of deep sea exploration on NPR's Marketplace, and a lecture Ballard gave in California in The Desert Sun.
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Titanic at 100: Preserve the wreck or let it go?
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/story/2012-04-04/titanic-science/53982018/1
USAToday.com
Monday, March 19, 2012
Metcalf Institute director to lead talk at D.C. environmental film festival
http://news.providencejournal.com/breaking-news/2012/03/metcalf-institu.html
ProvidenceJournal.com
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Dolphins beaching in record numbers on Cape Cod (grad student C.T. Harry is quoted)
PRI.org
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Deep Life
ScienceNews.org
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
A chilly mission to the Bering Sea
RIPR.org
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
URI greening its ocean research fleet
http://www.wpri.com/dpp/news/local_news/south_county/uri-greening-its-ocean-research-fleet
WPRI.com
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
URI Works to "Green Up" its Offshore Research
ecoRInews
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
URI researcher studies in the Arctic
http://www2.turnto10.com/news/2012/jan/18/uri-researcher-studies-arctic-ar-900554/
turnto10.com
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Local Scientist Returns from Arctic
http://www.wpri.com/dpp/news/local_news/south_county/local-scientist-returns-from-arctic
wpri.com
Monday, November 14, 2011
Noted URI Oceanographer Honored On His Retirement
http://news.providencejournal.com/breaking-news/2011/11/noted-uri-ocean.html#.TsJ8D_HOolb
ProvidenceJournal.com
Sunday, November 13, 2011
The Sea Holds Wealth of Untapped Resources, Ballard Says
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Monday, November 7, 2011
Stakeholders Review Sole Fisheries Co-Management Plan
http://allafrica.com/stories/201111080729.html
allAfrica.com
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Nation’s Smallest State Thinks Big When it Comes to Offshore Wind Farms
Climate Central
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Dr. Jeffrey Book Receives Presidential Award for Career Achievements
http://www.nrl.navy.mil/media/news-releases/143-11r/
Naval Research Laboratory
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Endeavor's 500th cruise
The University's research ship Endeavor departed for the Sargasso Sea on its 500th cruise on Oct. 12, with a team of scientists and students to study plankton, Gulf Stream currents, and ocean pollutants. The media took notice and showed up for the celebratory send-off at the Bay Campus dock. Stories appeared on Channel 10, Channel 12, Channel 6, USA Today, the Providence Journal, Boston Globe, South County Independent, and other regional media.
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Emerging contaminants
When a group of hazardous chemicals were detected in Narragansett Bay by Graduate School of Oceanography professor Rainer Lohmann and graduate student Victoria Sacks, the local media took notice. Lohmann was interviewed on Channel 12 and WPRO radio, and news stories appeared in the Providence Journal, Boston Globe, EcoRI, WBRU and elsewhere. The URI news release on the project can be found here.
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Oceanography 50th anniversary
The 50th anniversary celebration of the Graduate School of Oceanography has resulted in a wide range of news stories in the local media. The Providence Journal, Providence Business News, Narragansett Times, South County Independent, and EcoRI have all done excellent feature stories about the history and significance of the institution. Stories in the Jamestown Press and Senior Times have featured Ted Smayda, the oldest still-active professor on campus, and Get-RI featured recent GSO graduate Leslie Smith. In addition, Channel 10 offered a Coffee Cup Salute to GSO; the Rhode Show had two GSO guests on for a live interview; the South County Independent, Narragansett Patch and Charlestown Press highlighted the anniversary events; WPRO radio interviewed Sara Hickox about the events, and Channel 12 reported on the Science Saturday Open House.
