Posts for tag "University of Rhode Island"
Using Traditional Ghanaian Fishing Canoes to Monitor the Gulf of Guinea
Each year, towards the end of the Northern Hemisphere’s summer, something mysterious and profoundly impactful begins generating deep in the ocean. Off the Gulf of Guinea, which stretches along West Africa and the equatorial Atlantic Ocean, a...
- Posted December 31, 2025
Real-Time Monitoring in Rhode Island: Narragansett Bay Fixed Station Monitoring Network
Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island has a long history of water quality issues resulting from land pollution, leading to the influx of nutrients into the bay, which can cause algal blooms and declines in dissolved oxygen. The...
- Posted August 13, 2025
Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Networks at the Heart of Citizen Science Movement
The citizen science movement that is blossoming has its roots in the volunteer water quality monitoring networks which have functioned for decades.
- Posted March 19, 2018
First Water Quality Hackathon Coming Up at the University of Rhode Island
The University of RI is hosting a Water Quality Hackathon bringing scientists and engineers together with students to “hack” water quality solutions.
- Posted March 2, 2018
Rhode Island Streams Surveyed With Handheld Water Quality Meters, Nets
Handheld water quality meters and dip nets aid a University of Rhode Island effort to study stream health while supporting undergraduate education.
- Posted October 19, 2016
Study Tracks Southern Ocean Microbial Life Competing For Precious nutrients
A study by researchers from the University of Rhode Island and the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., has found that microbial populations in the remote Southern Ocean, specifically near McMurdo Station, are duking it out...
- Posted August 13, 2015
