[URI] The University of Rhode Island celebrated a major milestone in the $300 million, multi-phase revitalization of the Narragansett Bay Campus with a ribbon cutting ceremony for the new Ocean […]
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Posted inAway Teams & Field Reports, Caves, Craters, Mountains, Subsurface, Lava Tubes, Exploration Gear & Tech, Extinction events, Habitable Zones, Microbiology & Virology, Press Release, ROVs/Submersibles/Diving, Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
Seafloor Life Devastated Near Explosive Volcanic Eruption In Pacific
A University of Rhode Island oceanographer leading her first research cruise in the southern Pacific uncovered a surprise when her vessel looked below the waters in the Polynesian nation of […]
Posted inGenomics, Proteomics, Bioinformatics, Microbiology & Virology, Origin & Evolution of Life, Press Release
Evolution In Action? New Study Finds Possibility Of Nitrogen-fixing Organelles
Nitrogen is a nutrient essential for all life on Earth. Although nitrogen gas (N2) is plentiful, it is largely unavailable to most organisms without a process known as nitrogen fixation, […]
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Away Team Tech: New Technology For Conducting Deep-sea Research On Fragile Organisms
A University of Rhode Island professor of Ocean Engineering and Oceanography, along with a multidisciplinary research team from multiple institutions, successfully demonstrated new technologies that can obtain preserved tissue and […]
Posted inBiosignatures & Paleobiology, Mars, Press Release
URI Professors Win NASA-EPSCoR Grant To Study Methane Emissions From Rocks Common To Earth, Mars
Image: From left, Soni Pradhanang and Dawn Cardace, associate professors of geosciences, and Serena Moseman-Valtierra, an associate professor of biological sciences. Over the next three years, three University of Rhode […]
Posted inExtremeophiles and Extreme Environments
Microbes Deep Beneath The Seafloor Survive On The Byproducts Of Water Molecule Irradiation
A team of researchers from the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography and their collaborators have revealed that the abundant microbes living in ancient sediment below the seafloor […]
Posted inWater/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
Microbial Diversity Below The Seafloor Is As Rich As On Earth's Surface
For the first time, researchers have mapped the biological diversity of marine sediment, one of Earth’s largest global biomes. Although marine sediment covers 70% of the Earth’s surface, little was […]
Posted inWater/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
Ocean and Space Exploration Blend at URI's Graduate School of Oceanography
Scientists with a NASA-led expedition are operating from the Inner Space Center at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography as colleagues explore the deep Pacific Ocean to […]