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2 Administration 3 Development 4 Academics and Education 6 Outreach 8 R/V Endeavor at Sea 10 Research and Discovery 14 Roll of Donors

A View from the Bridge: For three days in early September, while cruising south off Nova Scotia en route to Bermuda, the research vessel Endeavor encountered 60-knot winds and 25-foot seas.

GSO Leadership Bruce Corliss, Dean James Patti, Director of Administration David Smith, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs — Robert Ballard, Director, Center for Ocean Exploration Dwight Coleman, Director, Inner Space Center Thomas Glennon, Director of Marine Operations Peter Hanlon, Director, Office of Marine Programs David Palazzetti, Director of Facilities and Operations Dennis Nixon, Director, Rhode Island Sea Grant Judith Swift, Director, Coastal Institute John Walsh, Director, Coastal Resources Center COVER PHOTO BY ALEX DECICCIO II / URI GRADUATE SCHOOL OF OCEANOGRAPHY INSIDE FRONT COVER PHOTO BY GABRIEL MATTHIASPHOTOS: CREDIT LINE FROM THE DEAN

I am pleased to provide you with the “Graduate School of These accomplishments build on the exciting progress that GSO Oceanography 2019 Annual Report” that summarizes activities has made as a community over the last eight years, including: and accomplishments from across the GSO community. Over • The development of a Narragansett Bay Campus Master the years, GSO has demonstrated a commitment to advancing Plan; exciting and innovative initiatives and 2019 continued that • $45 million state bond funding; trajectory. A few examples include: • Selection as the operator of a National Science Foundation • The keel laying and start of construction of the new regional $125 million regional class research vessel; class research vessel Resolution on May 7, 2019, in Houma, • Recruitment of 11 new faculty members representing La., with Governor Gina Raimondo as sponsor of the new approximately 40% of the faculty; and vessel. Gov. Raimondo will christen the vessel in 2023 when R/V Resolution arrives at the Narragansett Bay Campus; • A revised professional Master of Oceanography degree. • The start of planning for the first stage of the Narragansett Our continued tradition of excellence in oceanographic Bay Campus Master Plan supported by $45 million provided research, education and outreach has been made possible in a 2018 Rhode Island bond that will include a new pier and by the energy, hard work and dedication of GSO scientists, a marine operations building for Resolution, and an ocean staff and graduate students. Critical support has come from technology and robotics building to be completed in 2022; Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse, Congressmen • The inauguration of the East Coast Oceanographic Jim Langevin and David Cicilline, Governor Raimondo, and Consortium (ECOC) consisting of URI, Woods Hole leaders and staff of Rhode Island state agencies. The GSO Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and the University of New Dean’s Advisory Council, URI President David Dooley and Hampshire as primary members involved with operation of Provost Donald DeHayes, URI administrators and staff, Rhode Resolution and 13 additional East Coast institutions that will Island taxpayers and friends from across the country were all promote science, education and outreach collaborations; vital supporters. • GSO selected as the lead institution of a National Oceanic I am proud of the team effort and inclusive environment that and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Cooperative we have created over the last eight years, and the resulting Institute for Ocean Exploration with funding of $94 million accomplishments that will continue to move GSO forward in over the next five years, and joining the NOAA Cooperative the years to come. It was a privilege for me to return to Rhode Institute for the North Atlantic Region (CINAR) led by WHOI Island as the fifth dean of GSO, and I thank everyone for their with $8 million in funding over five years; support of this extraordinary school during my tenure. • Faculty searches for an assistant professor of ecosystem modeling and a professor of ocean exploration; Best wishes, • Robust outreach and educational programs through Rhode Island Sea Grant, Coastal Resources Center, Inner Space Center and Office of Marine Programs; and • 104 peer-reviewed articles published, $35 million in research funding, and nearly 1,400 undergraduates taught, quadrupling the 2012 teaching number. Bruce H. Corliss Dean was a banner year—financially and programmatically—for GSO. The 2019 school ended the year in excellent financial condition due to our highly productive faculty and staff, ADMINISTRATION growing support from alumni and friends, and overall sound fiscal management. As a result, we are well positioned for the coming The year was marked leadership transition as Dean Corliss retires after a transformative eight years of service. The accomplishments of Bruce’s tenure are by unprecedented levels well known, and we are fortunate that he will remain involved with the of funding for research school in the years ahead, most notably as the principal investigator projects, outreach programs on the research vessel Resolution project. and campus renewal. Total operating revenue for FY19 exceeded $45 million. As is customary at GSO, most of this amount is attributable to sponsored funding for research projects, outreach and education initiatives and ship operations. For the first time, awards for sponsored projects exceeded $35 million, an increase of more than 15% over the prior year. This is due primarily to the productivity of our faculty, Sponsored-Project Awards by Source expansion of the Coastal Resource Center’s support to the Philippines, and the establishment of two cooperative institutes funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. State operating support was $9.5 million and the overhead returned to the school exceeded $1.8 million (another record). Gift revenue, including current- use funds and distributions from endowment, exceeded $1 million and provided support for student awards, faculty start-up packages, select staff positions and general operations. To pursue its agenda for campus renewal, GSO now has access to $45 million in new capital due to passage of the 2018 Rhode Island bond referendum. Utilizing these funds, the school has hired an architect to begin detailed planning for the replacement of the pier, which will be necessary to accommodate R/V Resolution. (Vessel construction is slated for completion late in 2022. Resolution will then sail from Louisiana into Narragansett Bay.) Detailed architectural planning has also begun for a new ocean technology center and a marine operations building. Late in 2020, or early in 2021, the first visible changes to the Narragansett Bay Campus will become apparent as new construction begins. $ (millions) Source Finally, we are proud to have built an excellent GSO communications 10.752 National Science Foundation function to tell the our story through a variety of channels. This has 8.954 U.S. Agency for been essential to position the school competitively for resources, International Development public and private. We look forward to keeping you abreast of 3.949 National Oceanic and important news and progress at GSO, including the campus renewal Atmospheric Administration and Resolution’s construction. 2.658 Nonprofit Organizations On behalf of the entire GSO administration, thank you for your support 1.963 University of Rhode Island Sub-Awards of the school. 1.930 U.S. Department of Defense 1.518 Other Federal Agencies —James Patti 0.807 National Institutes of Health Director of Administration 0.731 Private For-Profits 0.642 National Aeronautics and Space Administration 0.384 U.S. Department of the Interior 0.320 State of Rhode Island 0.221 U.S. Department of Agriculture 0.225 Miscellaneous

2 / URI GRADUATE SCHOOL OF OCEANOGRAPHY • a $70,000 pledge from David E. Adams ’70 on the occasion of his 50th URI reunion.

• an anonymous $50,000 bequest from a longtime DEVELOPMENT donor who passed away wishing to support GSO’s activities.

Robust support for the Fund Ocean Science Education for GSO continued through In September 2019, The Devereux Ocean Foundation, fiscal year 2019, while Inc. pledged $250,000 to create the Devereux several major gifts made Ocean Foundation Fund for the Graduate School of in calendar year 2019 are Oceanography. also advancing the school’s The Devereux Ocean Foundation fosters ocean priorities. research, education and stewardship. The gift includes support for Rhode Island K-12 science teachers to collaborate with GSO experts to develop new ocean science education materials. This content will be Campus Renewal supplemented with educational videos produced by In 2018, Rhode Islanders supported the URI GSO by GSO’s Inner Space Center, which has an impressive voting “yes” on Question 2. The bond issue, which was content library of ocean video footage with extraordinary supported by 60% of the voters, provided $45 million to educational potential that will be unlocked with begin a multi-phase renewal of URI’s Narragansett Bay Devereux’s support. Ultimately, GSO will distribute Campus. Detailed design of a new pier and two new these educational materials in K-12 schools statewide buildings is underway, with construction expected to to provide a baseline understanding begin early in 2021. of ocean science for all students in the Ocean State. GSO’s mission is To complement public funding, GSO secured a number essential to improving of major private gifts in 2019. These gifts will be applied “We appreciate GSO’s position as one to construction-project costs in excess of the $45 million of the world’s premier oceanographic our understanding of provided by the state. They also demonstrate to Rhode institutions and want to support the the basic processes and Island voters and political leaders that the school is amazing work being accomplished by health of the ocean, as viewed as an important asset by the private sector. its faculty and students,” said Mark Grosby, president of The Devereux well as the blue economy Building on the $1,000,000 gift that Stephen M. Greenlee Ocean Foundation. “Solving critical in Rhode Island. Critical (M.S. 1982) and Donna Church Greenlee made in late ocean issues requires not only to this primary objective 2018, gifts received in 2019 include: outstanding research, but world class are transformational public outreach and education.” • a $500,000 challenge gift* from James Austin, senior research and teaching research scientist at the University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, and member of the GSO Fund for GSO facilities. That is why I am Dean’s Advisory Council. Under the terms of this gift The annual-giving account, Fund for issuing this challenge to all cash donations in support of campus renewal at GSO, raised $125,000 in the fiscal all those who value ocean GSO will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $500,000 year ended June 30, 2019. This came science. —James Austin over the next five years. This provides a powerful from 461 separate gifts resulting in incentive for others to leverage the benefit of an average gift of $477. Gift values the matching contribution. ranged from $10 to $14,000, and their impact was often • a $100,000 pledge from Barclay Collins (M.S. 1974, multiplied by corporate matching programs. These funds Ph.D. 1978), chair of the GSO Dean’s Advisory provide the dean with critical flexibility to support student Council. travel, campus events like our open house and other critical needs of the research, teaching and outreach • a $100,000 pledge from Laura Harris, Rhode Island missions. Your support has a real impact at GSO! philanthropist and supporter of the school.

• a $100,000 pledge from Jeffrey Sobel ’93 and Ali Mirian ’93.

* The Austin matching-gift challenge will continue until $500,000 in new cash is received by GSO. As many of the above gifts are multi- year pledges, prospective donors should be aware this is an ongoing opportunity to double the impact of philanthropy for GSO.

2019 ANNUAL REPORT / 3 ACADEMICS AND EDUCATION

The next generation of ­scientists and ocean­ ographers pursue their passions for new knowledge and career development.

The academic program continues to evolve at GSO while maintaining the same core mission–attract the brightest students from around the globe and help them address critical issues in oceanographic research. In May 2019, 14 students received their graduate de- grees in oceanography from GSO. Six students earned a Master of Oceanography degree (non-thesis). This group included two students who completed the “Blue MBA” program by earning a Master of Business Ad- ministration degree concurrently with an oceanography degree. The Master of Oceanography graduates includ- ed our first international student who was sponsored by the Indonesian government. Three more students from Indonesia joined our program in the fall semester to follow in her path. Two students turned the internships they completed for the degree into full-time jobs upon gradu­ation. Another joined fellow GSO alumni at a company The National Science Foundation (NSF)-sponsored Sum- that conducts marine seismic surveys. mer Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Oceanography (SURFO) was held for the 32nd consecutive summer at Four students earned a Master of Science in Oceanography GSO. In 2019 we had 13 instead of the usual 12 students as (thesis-based) degree. This group included an active Lieu- we paired up with the Puerto Rico Louis Stokes Alliance for tenant Commander in the United States Coast Guard. Another Minority Participation to co-fund two students from Puerto active Coast Guard officer will join our program next fall. The Rico. Some SURFO students were supported to present their other graduates have moved into positions in local environ- research results at national scientific meetings. mental firms. GSO students continue to lead various functions on and off Our four doctoral students that graduated last May have campus. The oceanbites blog (oceanbites.org) continues to spread out to continue their research careers. This includes expand with authors from well beyond the Bay Campus. Local post-doctoral positions both here and abroad as well as re- efforts include the Bay Informed Discussion Series where search positions within government laboratories. graduate students present current topics in oceanography to In 2019, 19 new students joined GSO to begin their pursuit of an enthusiastic audience from the local community. graduate degrees in oceanography. The non-thesis Master of Two new faculty members joined GSO in 2019. Dr. Veronique Oceanography degree continues to attract new students. Ten Oldham as an assistant professor. Her research is focused on of the incoming class are in this degree program, two of which redox chemistry of trace metals in the ocean. Dr. Martha Mc- came through the accelerated five-year masters program. Connell is a new lecturer at GSO. She is focused on teaching These students began taking graduate courses at GSO during undergraduate oceanography courses. their senior year at URI. GSO students will continue to push our current understanding of the ocean and make new discoveries, and we will continue to actively recruit the next generation of ocean leaders.

4 / URI GRADUATE SCHOOL OF OCEANOGRAPHY PHOTO: NPP/CYNTHIA GARCIA Left: GSO scientists collect ice cores during the Inner Space Center’s Northwest Passage Project, an expedition into the Canadian Arctic Archipelago funded by the NSF and led by GSO professor Brice Loose. Back on board the icebreaker Oden, GSO Ph.D. candidate Jacob Strock, center, and post doc Alessandra D’Angelo conducted initial analyses of the cores. Strock and D’Angelo found an abundance of microplastics embedded in the ice—an unexpected discovery. The microplastics are further evidence regarding the scope of humanity’s adverse impacts on the Arctic environment. In 2019, Strock was awarded a National Aeronautics and Space Administration fellowship through the Rhode Island Space Grant Consortium.

Below: the 2019 class of SURFO. Seated, from left to right are Angela Dougal, Sommer Meyer, Sandra Rech, Jamillez Olmo Classen; standing from left to right are Nicole Hammond, Nick Gershfeld, Brianna Villalon, Benjamin Watzak, Kamal James, Paul Ernst, Mac Diare, Gage Pilone and Lydia Nuñuz

PHOTO: LUCIE MARANDA 2019 ANNUAL REPORT / 5 OUTREACH

From promoting the value of ocean science, to influencing policy and increasing public and private support, GSO engages audiences in Rhode Island and throughout the world.

GSO continued to build upon its extensive Providence waterfront featuring a The Inner Space Center (ISC) conducted outreach portfolio of programs designed discussion of coastal resilience, and a programs that reached thousands of to educate marine scientists, students, documentary film showing about the students and teachers across the U.S. policymakers, business leaders and the Hurricane of ’38 followed by a discussion Over 450 students toured the ISC and public. Highlights of this past year include: of hurricane preparedness. participated in on-campus education programs. Over 3,000 K-12 students Lectures K-12 Programs were reached through the ISC’s virtual The Narragansett Bay Campus hosts Numerous outreach programs led by programs. The ISC’s largest reach leading scientists, journalists and ocean GSO focus on K-12 students, the next was to over 10,000 U.S. middle school practitioners from around the globe generation of ocean stewards. The Office teachers and students who participated throughout the year. Some of the more of Marine Programs’ Narragansett Bay in the team’s 2019 Hurricane Awareness prominent lectures included the Coastal Classroom presented 93 programs to webinars, conducted in partnership with Institute’s 7th Annual Scott W. Nixon over 1,400 students. The programs were the National Hurricane Center. The ISC Lecture, featuring Dr.Pál Weihe from the presented by 20 outreach scientists, 19 of team also partnered with the College of University of the Faroe Islands and a whom are GSO graduate students. The Engineering to conduct a Navy Science co-lead of the NIEHS-sponsored STEEP Rhode Island Teachers at Sea program and Engineering Camp for 11 R.I. high Superfund Research Program, who saw eight educators experience science at school students and conducted its annual discussed PFASs and their effects on sea aboard the research vessel Endeavor. Oceanography Exploration Camp for 21 human health. R.I. middle school students. Dr. George Lauder of Harvard University was the featured speaker of the annual Charles and Marie Fish Lecture, where he spoke about his work to develop robotic fish models and how they can help scientists better understand fish locomotor dynamics. Rhode Island Sea Grant’s Coastal State Discussion series brought a number of participants to campus to discuss issues facing the Ocean State, including the impacts of the Block Island Wind Farm on tourism, harmful algal blooms in Narragansett Bay, and how oysters alter the environment. Rhode Island Sea Grant also sponsored the annual Coastweeks series of events, which give the public hands-on, interactive opportunities to learn more about ocean and coastal environments and issues. Events in 2019 included, Rhode Island educators and URI faculty and students on board R/V Endeavor among others, a walking tour of the during the RITAS cruise in August, 2019.

6 / URI GRADUATE SCHOOL OF OCEANOGRAPHY U.S. and International Stakeholder Left: Dr. George Lauder delivers the Engagement Fish Lecture about developing better locomotion for underwater robots by The Coastal Resources Center (CRC) learning from fishes. Far left: before continues to bring science to bear embarking for Thule, Greenland, the on coastal and ocean issues that are Northwest Passage Project’s science important to stakeholders in Rhode team expresses its enthusiasm. Island, the U.S. and around the world, with a variety of activities that support consequence of rapid climatic warming. coastal communities. Domestically, the During the expedition, the ISC team center’s U.S. Team spearheaded a GSO- conducted 40 live, interactive broadcasts funded project to engage dozens of R.I. from the Northwest Passage. leaders in the creation of “The Value of Rhode Island’s Blue Economy,” a report The ISC team also had funding from describing key sectors and offering NSF to conduct the Antarctic Broadcasts: strategies to enhance it further. Other Broader Impacts Through Telepresence domestic work focused on strengthening project, which allowed the team to test relationships between marine farms and the ISC’s telepresence technology in a in Malawi, Madagascar and Central their host communities, and helping cities new and challenging region—extreme America, where the team is leading and towns apply tools and policies from southern latitudes. The team was able to studies and providing technical assistance the Rhode Island Shoreline Change successfully conduct live interactions from on many topics such as fisheries biomass Special Area Management Plan (Beach onboard the research vessel Laurence assessments, payment for ecosystem SAMP) to meet the challenges of sea M. Gould as the ship transited across the services, database development and level rise and hurricanes. For each of its Southern Ocean between Punta Arenas, gender analysis. Additionally, CRC is efforts in coastal and ocean planning, Chile and Palmer Station, Antarctica. partnering on a U.S. Department of coastal resiliency, and sustainable School, museum and general public Agriculture project to provide monitoring, fisheries and aquaculture, the U.S. Team audiences were able to ask questions of evaluation and knowledge management provided technical support to government, polar scientists in real time. services for USAID West Africa’s portfolio. private sector, academic and community Online Presence partners. In addition, the domestic In November, the ISC team conducted the program continued to provide targeted fourth Global Ocean Science Education After a redesign in 2018, the GSO assistance, guidance and lessons Workshop with 66 delegates from 14 website continued to expand and refine learned from Rhode Island’s pioneering nations, representing the ocean science content in 2019 to help numerous experience with offshore renewable research, education, business and policy different audiences find the information energy resources and windfarms to sectors. Delegates focused on preparing they need. GSO’s social media decision-makers, practitioners and for the United Nations Decade of Ocean channels are increasing their reach by students worldwide. Science for Sustainable Devel­opment, creating posts for a variety of audiences while discussing the workshop themes of including prospective students, scientific Internationally, CRC is implementing ocean observation, seabed mapping and colleagues, alumni, K-12 students and several multi-partner international the engagement of business and industry. educators and the ocean-engaged public. fisheries and marine biodiversity projects funded by the United States Agency for Telepresence Publications International Development (USAID). In the Philippines, the Fish Right Program With over $3,000,000 provided by The Coastal Institute released “Narragan­ is assisting the Bureau of Fisheries and NSF and $700,000 from the Heising- sett Bay Watershed Economy: The ebb Aquatic Resources and local government Simons Foundation, a GSO team led and flow of natural capital.” The study units to establish functioning new an expedition in August and September provides a comprehensive overview of fisheries management areas. In Ghana, aboard the Swedish Icebreaker Oden to the watershed’s economy and analyzes CRC supports the implementation of study the Arctic’s Northwest Passage. the value of 13 economically beneficial national fisheries co-management as well The collaborative effort between the ISC, sectors that rely on the region’s natural as several applied fisheries management the film company David Clark Inc., three capital. The report can be accessed at initiatives. CRC in collaboration with the informal science education institutions, nbweconomy.org. Rhode Island Sea Grant URI College of the Environment and Life and five U.S. Minority Serving Institutions and the Coastal Institute published two Sciences serves on the Management saw a multidisciplinary group of 38 issues of 41ºN (41nmagazine.org), Rhode Entity of the USAID Feed the Future participants, including 18 undergraduates, Island’s ocean and coastal magazine. Fish Innovation Lab, which selected set sail on an innovative expedition GSO published its alumni magazine, its first round of competitively awarded to investigate and communicate how Aboard GSO, its 2018 annual report and aquaculture and fisheries research grants. waters and fauna of the Canadian numerous other materials to help the CRC also supports biodiversity projects Arctic Archipelago are changing as a School reach diverse audiences.

2019 ANNUAL REPORT / 7 R/V ENDEAVOR AT SEA

Endeavor’s science missions included food-web studies, deployment of novel monitors and sensors, collection of water and sediment samples, and tracking move­ment and impacts of water-borne nutrients. Endeavor began 2019 in drydock at EN 631: Endeavor conducted the also deployed student-built underwater Senesco Ship Repair Yard. second of two BATS cruises out of St. cameras and experimental, passive George’s, Bermuda. CTDs, trace metal acoustic devices. EN 627: Under the direction of Heidi CTDs, sediment traps and pumps were Sosik of Woods Hole Oceanographic With assistance from GSO’s Inner deployed. Institution (WHOI), the first mission of the Space Center staff, the students also new year was the third dedicated transect Transit mission EN 632 returned broadcast live discussions to Rhode cruise for the Northeast U.S. Shelf (NES) Endeavor to the GSO pier on Mar. 20. Island classrooms about the science Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) being conducted, its importance and EN 633: This cruise began on Mar. 26 project. The overarching goal of NES- their experiences aboard Endeavor. The and supported a project by URI seniors LTER is to understand and predict the broadcasts were focused primarily on in Ocean Engineering. It was directed by change of planktonic food webs through Earth Day and included a Facebook Chief Scientist and URI professor Lora space and time in response to changes in live broadcast. Van Uffelen (Ocean Engineering/GSO) the physical environment, and how those and funded by the RIEP. Working with EN 636: Departed May 1 for an NSF- changes impact ecosystem productivity, WHOI mooring technician John Kemp, sponsored cruise under the direction of particularly of higher trophic levels. the students designed two moorings with Principle Investigator John W. Toole of Transit mission EN 628 to St George’s, a surface buoy for passive monitoring WHOI. For the project Development and Bermuda began Feb. 11. of marine mammals in the vicinity of the Field Testing of a Lift Assisted Moored Block Island Wind Farm (BIWF). The Profiler (LAMP), Endeavor recovered a EN 629: Departed St. George’s Feb. 16, buoys received sound from a hydrophone tall (4000m) subsurface mooring deployed to conduct Bermuda Atlantic Time Series and transmitted data via the cell network six months earlier and returned the gear (BATS) cruises. As R/V Atlantic Explorer to an onshore server. Two moorings to Woods Hole. was in drydock, Endeavor conducted (MARIMBA-E and MARIMBA-W) and two BATS missions, which typically On May 10, began transit mission EN 637 a geosled were deployed. The geosled require five days, multiple Conductivity, to Morehead City, N.C. was equipped with acoustic sensors and Temperature and Depth casts (CTDs), rested on the sea floor. EN 638: This NSF-sponsored cruise sediment trap drifters, and production began May 15, and was under the array drifters. Endeavor returned to St. EN 634: On April 10, Endeavor returned direction of Principle Investigator Carol George’s on Feb. 20. to the vicinity of BIWF to retrieve the Arnosti, University of North Carolina- acoustical moorings deployed during EN EN 630: Departed St. George’s Feb. Chapel Hill. For the project A Mechanistic 633. CTD casts and an acoustical survey 27 with GSO professor Jaime Palter as Microbial Underpinning for the Size- were conducted while in the area. This Chief Scientist on a cruise funded by the Reactivity Continuum of Dissolved cruise was also directed by Chief Scientist Rhode Island Endeavor Program (RIEP). Organic Carbon Degradation, Endeavor and URI professor Lora Van Uffelen Endeavor was to rendezvous with, sampled the North Atlantic water column (Ocean Engineering/GSO) and funded by then follow Saildrone—an autonomous at six depths and 12 stations to collect the RIEP. vessel launched several weeks earlier samples for incubation experiments from Newport, RI—in order to validate EN 635: Departed for waters south involving microbial degradation of Saildrone’s sensor readings. While of New England on April 18 under the organic carbon. crossing the Gulf Stream en route to direction of Principle Investigator, Chief EN 639: Departed Morehead City on Bermuda, Saildrone encountered heavy Scientist, and GSO professor Melissa June 3. During this transit to Bridgetown, weather—12-meter seas and winds in Omand on a mission funded by the Barbados, a dozen STEMSEAS students excess of 60 knots. Damage to Saildrone RIEP. This interdisciplinary educational were aboard and directed by two mentors caused loss of autonomous operation cruise was the culmination of a URI and Dr. Joseph Montoya of Georgia Tech. and function of two-thirds of its onboard undergraduate honors science class The students participated in CTD casts, instruments, curtailing EN 630. Saildrone during which students examined ring net and MOCNESS tows, and on- was guided to Bermuda and recovered linkages between marine mammal deck incubation experiments. by a team from the Bermuda Institute for distribution, physical oceanography Ocean Science. After repairs, it resumed and prey distribution. Participating in all trans-Atlantic missions. aspects of data collection, the students

8 / URI GRADUATE SCHOOL OF OCEANOGRAPHY PHOTOS COURTESY OF ENDEAVOR CREW. EN 640: This NSF-sponsored cruise Endeavor departed Gulfport Aug. 6 on EN 647: Endeavor departed Sep. began on June 14. Titled Collaborative transit mission EN 643 and arrived at 22, under the direction of Principal Research: Impact of the Amazon River GSO on Aug. 12. Investigator and GSO professor Roxanne Plume on Nitrogen Availability and Beinart. Corinna Breusing and Brennan EN 644: Principle Investigator Heidi Planktonic Food Web Dynamics in the Phillips, also professors at URI and Sosik of WHOI directed this NSF- Western Tropical North Atlantic, the GSO, were Co-Chief Scientists. The sponsored cruise. In transects south of project’s Principle Investigator was cruise was sponsored by the RIEP. The Martha’s Vineyard out to the shelf break, Joseph Montoya. Samples from the science team collected live organisms, CTD casts and towing of bongo nets and northern reaches of the Amazon Plume cold seep mussels, to test the effect the ISIIS Sting Ray plankton-imaging were taken during the high-flow season. of nutrients—specifically phosphorous remotely operated towed vehicle were Regions of dense populations of N2- availability—on rates of productivity in performed. On departure day, Aug. 19, fixing organisms were targeted to explore symbiotic, chemosynthetic mussels from Endeavor’s bridge UPS/clean power unit, factors that promote blooms and ways the Veatch Canyon Seep, a site located which powers such critical equipment that fixed nitrogen moves into the food 242 kilometers from Narragansett, R.I. as the gyro compasses, throttle, and web. Endeavor worked on the northern at 1,444 meters depth on the mid- navigation computers, failed, forcing a side of the Amazon Plume off French continental slope. This work generated return to GSO. Temporary repairs enabled Guyana and Suriname for two weeks. preliminary data to support future Endeavor to go back out, and the clean proposals targeted at understanding Endeavor returned to Bridgetown to take power unit was replaced after EN 644 chemosynthetic production at deep-sea on fuel and stores then began the second was completed. cold seeps. Deep-sea sampling leg of EN 640, which concentrated on EN 645: This cruise was sponsored technology that can eliminate the need for areas east of Barbados. by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory typical deep-sampling vehicles and may On July 10, Endeavor transited from under the direction of Geoffrey F. be utilized by many other URI researchers Bridgetown to Gulfport, Miss. EN 641 Edelmann of NRL–D.C. The project, is being developed. passed between the Windward Islands Reliable Acoustic Communications, EN 648: The 2019 cruise season’s of St. Lucia and St. Vincent, through the seeks to enable new naval capabilities final mission, which began on Oct. 18, Mona Passage between the Dominican to support undersea networking via the was a mooring trip conducted under the Republic on the Island of Hispaniola and continued development of a Navy-owned, direction of John Toole of WHOI. Puerto Rico, and through the Florida software defined modem. The project will Straits into the Gulf of Mexico. It ended in demonstrate directional reliable acoustic On Dec. 12, Endeavor returned to Sen­ Gulfport on July 19. communications. Endeavor deployed up esco for an inspection by the American to 10 anchored arrays fitted with acoustic Bureau of Shipping Hull and Machinery. EN 642: Andrew Juhl and Ajit pressure vessels. This may be Endeavor’s last haul-out Subramaniam, both of Lamont-Doherty while in the service of URI. Her 44th Earth Observatory, were the Principle and EN 646: In mid-September, Endeavor sailing season will begin in early 2020. Co-principle Investigators of this NSF- departed for the annual Rhode Island funded mission. They conducted studies Teachers at Sea cruise under the With a major refit in 1993, and many of the temporal change in nitrogen and direction of Principal Investigator and equipment upgrades performed since, phosphorous nutrients as a water mass GSO Associate Dean David Smith. Endeavor has remained a vital member moves offshore. An identified water mass This year’s cruise introduced eight R.I. of the UNOLS fleet of research vessels, was tracked for 13 days by following an educators to ship-based research and embarking on missions never imagined Argos-Apex float drifting on the surface. shipboard living. The crew stressed safety when she was launched in 1976. Scientists deployed and recovered floating at sea as teachers took part in emergency Endeavor’s assignments have taken her particle interceptor traps (PIT) every four drills, including a race for donning around the world. She has proven to days and continuously sampled the water overboard survival suits. The Rhode be a rugged little ship—always getting mass using CTD and MOCNESS net Island Teachers at Sea cruise, sponsored the job done and keeping her crew and casts, a snow cam, spectroradiometer, by the RIEP, is a perennial highlight that scientists safe. We at the Marine Office Ring nets, and micro profiler. earns rave reviews from participants. look forward to more successful seasons Teachers then share their experiences with Endeavor while her successor, with their students. Resolution, is under construction.

PHOTO: (ABOVE LEFT) CHASE A. FOUNTAIN. 20182019 ANNUAL REPORT / 9 RESEARCH AND DISCOVERY

New findings and new projects by GSO professors and scientists as published in scholarly journals and funded grant proposals:

Scientific Publications …Campbell, R.G.…et al. Ontogenetic vertical Emry, E.L., Shen, Y., …Flinders, A., Bao, X. migration of the mesopelagic carniv- Upper Mantle Earth Structure in Research results were presented in the orous copepod Paraeuchaeta spp. Africa From Full-Wave Ambient following articles that were authored or is related to their increase in body Noise Tomography. Geochemis- mass. Journal of Plankton Research try, Geophysics, Geosystems 20, co-authored by GSO faculty, researchers 41, 791–797. 120–147. and students.These articles were published …Carey, S.…et al. Modelling of the tsunami …Feen, M.L.…et al. Direct Observations of in peer-reviewed journals during 2019. from the December 22, 2018 lateral Biological Carbon Export From collapse of Anak Krakatau volcano Profiling Floats in the Subtropical …Adelman, D., Vojta, Š.… Lohmann, R. Pas- in the Sunda Straits, Indonesia. Sci North Atlantic. Global Biogeochemi- sive Sampling of Persistent Organic Rep 9, 1–13. cal Cycles. Pollutants in Four Coastal Aquatic Systems of Puerto Rico: A Pilot …Collie, J.S.…et al. Assessing bottom trawl- …Franzè, G.…et al. Food web functions and Study. Bulletin of Environmental ing impacts based on the longevity interactions during spring and sum- Contamination and Toxicology. of benthic invertebrates. Journal of mer in the arctic water inflow region: Applied Ecology 56, 1075–1084. Investigated through inverse model- Beinart, R.A. The significance of microbial ing. Frontiers in Marine Science 6. symbionts in ecosystem processes. Cormier, M.-H.… Distinctive Seafloor Fabric mSystems 4. Produced Near Western Versus …Franzè, G.…et al. Microzooplankton distri- Eastern Ridge-Transform Intersec- bution and dynamics in the eastern …Bečanová, J.…et al. Health and ecological tions of the Northern Mid-Atlantic Fram Strait and the Arctic Ocean in risk assessment of emerging con- Ridge: Possible Influence of Ridge May and August 2014. Frontiers of taminants in surface and groundwa- Migration. Geochemistry, Geophys- Marine Science 6. ter in the Ganges River Basin, India. ics, Geosystems. Science of the Total Environment …Ginis, I. Developing Consequence Thresh- 646, 1459–1467. …Cornillon, P.…et al. Determining the olds for Storm Models through AMSR-E SST Footprint from Participatory Processes: Case Study Beinart, R.A.…et al. The bacterial symbionts Co-Located MODIS SSTs. Remote of Westerly Rhode Island. Frontiers of closely related hydrothermal vent Sensing 11, 715–715. in Earth Science 7. snails with distinct geochemical habitats show broad similarity in …Cornillon, P., Rudnickas, D., Mouw, C.B. …Ginis, I.…et al. Hurricane Model Devel- chemoautotrophic gene content. Evidence of Environmental Changes opment at GFDL: A Collaborative Frontiers in Microbiology 10. Caused by Chinese Island-Building. Success Story from a Historical Scientific Reports 9, 5295. Perspective. Bulletin of the Amer- …Belkin, I.M. Satellite observations of sus- ican Meteorological Society 100, pended sediment near Ningbo North …D’Hondt, S.…et al. New High-Tech Flexible 1725–1736. Dyke, China. Advances in Space Networks for the Monitoring of Research 64, 1415–1422. Deep-Sea Ecosystems. Environ- …Ginis, I.…et al. Role of Hurricane Wind mental Science & Technology. 53, Models in Accurate Simulation of Cleary, A.C.…et al. Parasites in Antarctic krill 6616–6631. Storm Surge and Waves. Journal of guts inferred from DNA sequences. Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Antarctic Science 1–7. D’Hondt, S.…et al. IODP Advances in the Engineering 145. understanding of subseafloor life. …Bishop, I.W.…et al. Taxonomic harmoniza- Oceanography 32, 198–207. …Hancock, B. Habitat Modification and tion may reveal a stronger associa- Coastal Protection by Ecosys- tion between diatom assemblages D’Hondt, S., Pockalny, R., Fulfer, V.M., tem-Engineering Reef-Building and total phosphorus in large Spivack, A.J. Subseafloor life and Bivalves. Goods and Services of datasets. Ecological Indicators 102, its biogeochemical impacts. Nature Marine Bivalves, 253–273. 166–174. Communications 10, 1–13. Brounce, M.…Kelley, K.A. The redox budget of …Donohue, K.A.… Rossby, H.T.…et al. The the Mariana subduction zone. Earth scientific and societal uses of global and Planetary Science Letters 528, measurements of subsurface veloc- 115859. ity. Frontiers in Marine Science 6.

10 / URI GRADUATE SCHOOL OF OCEANOGRAPHY PHOTO BY ALEX DECICCIO …Hancock, B. Selecting a suite of poten- Khairy, M.A.… Lohmann, R. Uptake of …McMahon, K.W.…et al. Alternative functional tial partner sites for the Adelaide hydrophobic organic compounds, strategies and altered carbon path- International Bird Sanctuary to aid including organochlorine pesticides, ways facilitate broad depth ranges in shorebird conservation in the East polybrominated diphenyl ethers, coral-obligate reef fishes. Functional Asian-Australasian Flyway. Pacific and perfluoroalkyl acids in fish and Ecology 33, 1962–1972. Conservation Biology. blue crabs of the lower Passaic River, New Jersey, USA. Environ- McMahon, K.W.…et al. Divergent trophic Hancock, B.…et al. Enhanced Production of mental Toxicology & Chemistry 38, responses of sympatric penguin Finfish and Large Crustaceans by 872–882. species to historic anthropogenic Bivalve Reefs, Goods and Services exploitation and recent climate of Marine Bivalves, 295–312. …King, J., Heil, C.W.…et al. Chronostrati- change. Proceedings of the National graphic model of a high-resolution Academy of Sciences U.S.A. …Hancock, B.…et al. The Native Oyster drill core record of the past million Restoration Alliance (NORA) and years from the Koora Basin, south …McMahon, K.W.…et al. Major shifts in nutri- the Berlin Oyster Recommendation: Kenya Rift: Overcoming the difficul- ent and phytoplankton dynamics in bringing back a key ecosystem engi- ties of variable sedimentation rate the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre neer by developing and supporting and hiatuses. Quaternary Science over the last 5000 years revealed by best practice in Europe. Aquatic Reviews 215, 213–231. high-resolution proteinaceous deep- Living Resources 32, 13. sea coral δ15N and δ13C records. …Kotowicz, D.M.…et al. An ecosystem Earth & Planetary Science Letters …He, B.…et al. Deriving Rupture Scenarios approach to kelp aquaculture in the 515, 145–153. from Interseismic Locking Dis- Americas and Europe. Aquaculture tributions Along the Subduction Reports 15, 100215. …McMahon, K.W.…et al. Trophic position and Megathrust. Journal of Geophysical foraging ecology of Ross, Weddell, Research: Solid Earth. Langan, J.A.… Truesdale, C.L., Collie, J.S. and crabeater seals revealed by Evaluating Summer Flounder Spa- compound-specific isotope analysis. …Heikes, B.G., …Treadaway, V.…et al. On tial Sex-Segregation in a Southern Marine Ecology Progress Series the sources and sinks of atmo- New England Estuary. Marine and 611, 1–18. spheric VOCs: an integrated analy- Coastal Fisheries 11, 76–85. sis of recent aircraft campaigns over …Menden-Deuer, S.…et al. The North Atlantic North America. Atmospheric Chem- Le Voyer, M.… Kelley, K.A.…et al. Carbon Aerosol and Marine Ecosystem istry and Physics 19, 9097–9123. Fluxes and Primary Magma CO2 Study (NAAMES): Science Motive Contents Along the Global Mid- and Mission Overview. Frontiers in …Heil, C.…et al. The Mighty Susquehanna— Ocean Ridge System. Geochem- Marine Science 6. Extreme Floods in Eastern North istry, Geophysics, Geosystems 20, America During the Past Two 1387–1424. Menden-Deuer, S.…et al. The theory of games Millennia. Geophysical Research and microbe ecology. Theoretical Letters 0. …Lohmann, R. Air-soil diffusive exchange of Ecology 12, 1–15. PAHs in an urban park of Shanghai …Huizenga, K.N.…et al. Trophic coupling of based on polyethylene passive …Merrill, J.T. Quantifying stratosphere-tro- the microbial and the classical food sampling: Vertical distribution, veg- posphere transport of ozone using web in Lake Baikal, Siberia. Fresh- etation influence and diffusive flux. balloon-borne ozonesondes, radar water Biology 64, 138–151. Science of the Total Environment windprofilers and trajectory models. 689, 734–742. Atmospheric Environment 198, Husain, N., Hara, T.…et al. Boundary layer 496–509. turbulence over surface waves in a …Lohmann, R.…et al. A global 3-D ocean strongly forced condition: LES and model for polychlorinated biphenyls …Montalbano, A., Rynearson, T., Men- observation. Journal of Physical (PCBs): Benchmark compounds for den-Deuer, S.…et al. Trophic Oceanography. understanding the impacts of global upgrading and mobilization of wax change on neutral persistent organic esters in microzooplankton. PeerJ …Kelley, K.A.…et al. Potassium isotope 2019. systematics of oceanic basalts. pollutants. Global Biogeochemical Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta Cycles. Morison, F.… Franzè, G., Menden-Deuer, S. 259, 144–154. …Lohmann, R.…et al. Poly- A and Perfluoroal- Storm-induced predator-prey decou- pling promotes springtime accumu- …Kenney, R.D.…et al. Rapid Climate-Driven kyl Substances (PFAS) in Seawater and Plankton from the Northwestern lation of North Atlantic phytoplank- Circulation Changes Threaten ton. Frontiers in Marine Science 6. Conservation of Endangered North Atlantic Margin. Environmental Atlantic Right Whales. Oceanogra- Science and Technology. …Mouw, C.B., Ciochetto, A.B.. Deriving inher- phy 32, 162–169. …Loose, B.…et al. Upper Ocean Distribution ent optical properties from decom- position of hyperspectral non-water Kerrigan, Z.… D’Hondt, S. Influence of 16S of Glacial Meltwater in the Amund- sen Sea, Antarctica. Journal of absorption. Remote Sensing of rRNA hypervariable region on Environment 225, 193–206. estimates of bacterial diversity and Geophysical Research: Oceans. community composition in seawater …Loose, B., Lovely, A.…et al. Changes Mouw, C.B., Ciochetto, A.B., Yoder, J.A. A Sat- and marine sediment. Frontiers of in gross oxygen production, net ellite Assessment of Environmental Microbiology 10. oxygen production, and air-water Controls of Phytoplankton Commu- gas exchange during seasonal nity Size Structure. Global Biogeo- …Khairy, M., Aldeman, D.… Lohmann, R. chemical Cycles 33, 540–558. Passive sampler-derived concen- ice melt in Whycocomagh Bay, a trations of PAHs in air and water Canadian estuary in the Bras d’Or …Oviatt, C.A.…et al. Wastewater input along Brazilian mountain transects. Lake system. Biogeosciences 16, reductions reverse historic hyper­ Atmospheric Pollution Research 10, 3351–3376. eutrophication of Boston Harbor, 635–641. McDonough, C.A.… Lohmann, R. Aryl USA. Ambio. Khairy, M.A., Lohmann, R., 2019. Organo- Hydrocarbon Receptor-Mediated Oviatt, C.A., Huizenga, K.…et al. What nutrient phosphate flame retardants in Activity of Gas-Phase Ambient Air sources support anomalous growth the indoor and outdoor dust and Derived from Passive Sampling and and the recent sargassum mass gas-phase of Alexandria, Egypt. an in Vitro Bioassay. Environmental stranding on Caribbean beaches? Chemosphere 220, 275–285. ­Toxicology and Chemistry. A review. Marine Pollution Bulletin 145, 517–525.

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Palter, J., Cook, L., Gonçalves Neto, A., Nick- Rubin, E.T.… Montalbano, A.L., Men- Truesdale, C.L.… Collie, J.S. Growth and ford, S.…et al. Acoustic Backscatter den-Deuer, S., Rynearson, T.A. molting characteristics of Jonah crab Patterns. Oceanog 32, 140–141. Transcriptomic response to feeding (Cancer borealis) in Rhode Island and starvation in a herbivorous Sound. Fisheries Research 211, …Pockalny, R., D’Hondt, S., …Spivack, A.J.… dinoflagellate. Frontiers in Marine 13–20. et al. Persistent organic matter in Science 6. oxic subseafloor sediment. Nature Ullman, D.S., Ginis, I.… Nowakowski, C., Geoscience 1. Rudnickas, D., Jr., Palter, J., Hebert, D., Chen, X.…et al. Assessing the Mul- Rossby, H.T. Isopycnal Mixing in tiple Impacts of Extreme Hurricanes …Pratt, C.A.… Forearc carbon sink reduces the North Atlantic Oxygen Minimum in Southern New England, USA. long-term volatile recycling into the Zone Revealed by RAFOS Floats. Geosciences 9, 265. mantle. Nature 568, 487–492. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 124, 6478–6497. …Ullman, D.S.… Kincaid, C. Northern quahog Ramírez, G.A.…et al. Ecology of subseafloor (Mercenaria mercenaria) larval crustal biofilms. Frontiers in Microbi- …Rynearson, T.A. Identification and expres- transport and settlement modeled ology 10. sion analyses of the nitrate trans- for a temperate estuary. Limnology Robadue Jr., D. Understanding resistance to porter gene (NRT2) family among and Oceanography. resilience in coastal hazards and cli- Skeletonema species (Bacillario­ phyceae). Journal of Phycology. Walcutt, N.L.… Omand, M.M. Virtual Reality mate adaptation: three approaches and Oceanography: Overview, Appli- to visualizing structural and process …Shen, Y.…et al. Initial rupture processes of cations, and Perspective. Front. obstacles, opportunities and adapta- the 2008 Mw7.9 Wenchuan, China Mar. Sci. 6. tion responses. earthquake: From near-source seis- …Walsh, E.A., D’Hondt, S. Microbial selection …Robinson, R.…et al. Mid-Holocene deep- mic records. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 173, 397–403. and survival in subseafloor sedi- ening of the Southeast Pacific oxy- ment. Frontiers of Microbiology 10. cline. Global and Planetary Change …Sigurdsson, H.…et al. Dating post-Archean 172, 365–373. lithospheric mantle: Insights from …Walsh, J. Terrestrial lidar monitoring of Re-Os and Lu-Hf isotopic systemat- coastal foredune evolution in …Robinson, R.…et al. A New Seismic managed and unmanaged sys- Stratigraphy in the Indian-Atlantic ics of the Cameroon Volcanic Line peridotites. Geochimica et Cosmo- tems. Earth Surface Processes and Ocean Gateway Resembles Major Landforms. Paleo-Oceanographic Changes of chimica Acta. the Last 7 Ma. Geochemistry, Geo- …Spivack, A.J., Smith, D.C., Pockalny, R.… Wang, N., Shen, Y., Bao, X.…et al. Locating physics, Geosystems 20, 339–358. D’Hondt, S.…et al. Archaea domi- Shallow Seismic Sources With nate oxic subseafloor communities Waves Scattered by Surface Topog- Robinson, R.S., Jones, C.A.…et al. A Cool, raphy: Validation of the Method at Nutrient-Enriched Eastern Equatorial over multimillion-year time scales. Science Advances 5. the Nevada Test Site. Journal of Pacific During the Mid-Pleistocene Geophysical Research: Solid Earth Transition. Geophysical Research …Spivack, A.…et al. Naturally occurring, 124, 7040–7051. Letters 46, 2187–2195. microbially induced smectite-to-illite reaction. Geology 47, 535–539. Wang, N., Li, J.… Shen, Y.…et al. Mod- …Roman, C. Underwater Robotic Technol- eling Three-Dimensional Wave ogy for Imaging Mesophotic Coral …Stevick, R.J.…et al. From the raw bar to Propagation in Anelastic Models Ecosystems. Mesophotic Coral the bench: Bivalves as models With Surface Topography by the Ecosystems, Coral Reefs of the for human health. 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12 / URI GRADUATE SCHOOL OF OCEANOGRAPHY Sponsored Research Aquaculture Industry: Identifying $9,450 to Candace Oviatt from R.I. and Removing Barriers and Department of Environmental Awards Promoting Opportunities” Management for “Perform Analysis of Chlorophyll-A Concentrations GSO’s faculty and marine research scientists $85,940 to Rainer Lohmann from Harvard from Water Quality Samples” earned the following new awards in 2019: University for “Evaluating the Importance of Precursor $281,999 to Glenn Ricci and Peter Freeman $3,506,125 to Robert Ballard and Dwight Transport and Transformation from International Union for Con­ Coleman from NOAA for “Ocean for Groundwater Contamination servation of Nature for “Regional Exploration Cooperative Institute” with Poly- and Perfluoroalkyl Coastal Biodiversity Project” Substances” $180,000 to Roxanne Beinart from Simons $390,670 to Rebecca Robinson and Kelton Foundation for “Patterns of $80,000 to Rainer Lohmann from R.I. McMahon from National Science Specificity and Maintenance in Science and Technology Advisory Foundation for “MRI: Acquisition Microbe-Microbe Partnerships” Council for “Testing Nanographene of a Customized GC-IRMS for as Passive Samplers for Emerging Isotopic Analysis of Nitrate and $51,498 to Dwight Coleman from BBC for Contaminants of Concern in Nitrous Oxide at URI” “BBC Blue Planet Live 2019—R/V Narragansett Bay” Atlantis” $95,413 to Christopher Roman from $70,607 to Rainer Lohmann from General Dartmouth College for “RII Track-2 $33,725 to Teresa Crean from R.I. Coastal Dynamics Information Technology FEC: Computational Methods and Resources Management Council for “Analysis of the Strength of the Autonomous Robotics Systems for for “Rhode Island Shoreline Predictive Relationship Between Modeling and Predicting Harmful Adaptation for Resilience and Organism Bioaccumulation and Cyanobacterial Blooms” Habitat Enhancement” Passive Sampler Uptake” $139,000 to Christopher Roman from $30,832 to Teresa Crean from RI Coastal $522,171 to Rainer Lohmann and Robert Physical Science Inc. for Resources Management Pockalny from National Science “Enhanced Sonar Feature Council for “Development and Foundation for “Concentrations Reacquisition Using Simultaneous Maintenance of an Online Delivery and Source Assessment of Black Localization and Mapping System for STORMTOOLS Carbon Across Tropical Atlantic Air Techniques” Inundation and Risk Maps” and Sediment” $350,000 to Gail Scowcroft from the $84,271 to Azure Cygler from University $344,154 to Brice Loose from National Department of Defense, Office of of Connecticut for “Advancing Science Foundation for “How to Naval Research for “Discovery of Southern New England Shellfish Trace Glacial Meltwater in the Sound in the Sea 2018-2019” Aquaculture through an Engaged Ocean by Shipboard Hydrographic Public and Next Generation Tools” Analysis of Dissolved Neon and $67,892 to Yang Shen from National Krypton” Science Foundation for “An Open $14,999 to Brian Heikes from Brown Access Experiment to Seismically University for “Quantifying Wet and $7,495 to Lucie Maranda from TelAztec for Image Galapagos Plume-Ridge Dry Deposition of Ammonium to “Evaluation of TelAztec Materials Interaction” Narragansett Bay” Following Seawater Immersion” $253,253 to Yang Shen from National $115,924 to Karen Kent and Elin Torell from $132,884 to Lucie Maranda and David Smith Science Foundation for “Gathering U.S. Department of Agriculture from National Science Foundation New Insights into the Magmatic for “Monitoring, Evaluation and for “REU Summer Undergraduate and Tectonic Processes at Kilauea Analytical Support Services” Research Fellowships in Volcano from Analysis of the 2018 Oceanography (SURFO)” RAPID OBS Array Data” $61,330 to Christopher Kincaid from R.I. Science and Technology Advisory $42,866 to Lucie Maranda and David Smith $33,770 to Jacob Strock from Brown Council for “Building Essential from R.I. Commerce Corporation University for “NASA R.I. Space Bridges Between Ecosystem Data for “Testing Onvector High- Grant Fellowship” and Hydrodynamic-Ecosystem Voltage Plasma for Ballast Water Models of Rhode Island Coastal Management” $826,369 to D Randolph Watts from Waters through CHN Analysis” multiple sources for “Inverted $30,000 to Jennifer McCann and Azure Echo Sounder (IES) Technology/ $50,000 to John King from R.I. Commerce Cygler from NOAA Sea Grant for Research: Pressure Recorders Corporation for “MIKEL “Sea Grant Northeast Regional (PIES) and Current Meters Submerged Acoustic Navigation Lobster Extension Program: (CPIES)” System Generation 5 Beacon” Rhode Island” $107,782 to Meng (Matt) Wei from the $75,000 to John King from U.S. Department $32,000 to Susanne Menden-Deuer from Department of Defense, Defense of Interior for “Regional Scale R.I. Science and Technology Threat Reduction Agency for “Yield Benthic Habitat Mapping at Advisory Council for “Coupling Estimate Based on InSAR” Northeast Region Coastal Parks Physical and Ecological Models Using CMECS” to Understanding How Climate $18,011 to Mingxi Zhou from Naval Drives Disease Outbreaks in Undersea Warfare Center for $32,370 to John King from Stonington Narragansett Bay” Historical Society for “1814 Battle “Towards Autonomous UUV-Based of Stonington Battlefield Protection $33,594 to Colleen Mouw from National Seafloor Reconnaissance Using Project” Aeronautics and Space Artificial Intelligence” Administration for “Continued $37,543 to Dawn Kotowicz from R.I. Mentoring of Junior Women in $293,134 to Mingxi Zhou and Brice Loose Natural History Survey for “Climate Physical Oceanography: Link to from National Science Foundation Resilient Markets: Adapting to the NASA labs” for “NSF EAGER: Navigating Fisheries of the Future” Unmanned Underwater Vehicles $131,957 to Melissa Omand from National (UUV’s) at Ice-Water Horizon $28,848 to Dawn Kotowicz from University Aeronautics and Space of Connecticut for “Nurturing the Administration for “Ocean Successful Growth and Maturation Submesoscale Currents and of a Domestic Seaweed Vertical Transport” 2019 ANNUAL REPORT / 13 ROLL OF DONORS

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14 / URI GRADUATE SCHOOL OF OCEANOGRAPHY * = GSO ALUMNUS/A, ‡ = ADVISORY COUNCIL MEMBER In 2019, GSO students Nautilus Society were awarded $130,000 in scholarships and fellowships Mrs. Bette J. Aaronson Mr. Raymond J. Bolster II Mrs. Elizabeth H. Coghlin funded by gifts from friends Mr. Jared D. Aaronson Mr. David Bonney Dr. Thomas J. Coghlin and alumni. Above: some * Dr. Susan C. Adamowicz * Dr. David G. Borkman * Dr. Dwight F. Coleman recipients gathered at the Mr. Hisham Aharon Ms. Kathleen B. Bouthillier Ms. Trudy C. Coleman Mosby Center for the awards Mrs. Kimberly A. Alfultis * Dr. Amy S. Bower * Mr. Jeffrey M. Corbin presentation. * Dr. Michael A. Alfultis * Dr. Suzanne B. Bricker * Dr. David E. Crandall Ms. Susan Aresti Ms. Susan P. Brillat Mr. Richard C Crisson Alumni giving to GSO * Dr. Carin J. Ashjian * Mr. Thomas H. Brillat Ms. Patricia M. Crowley creates opportunities for today’s Mr. David Augman * Dr. Christopher W. Brown * Mr. John D. Cullen graduate students. Each year, * Ms. Elizabeth Ayer * Ms. Dale T. Brown * Dr. Kiersten L. Curti grants funded exclusively by Mr. Gilbert C. Brown Mr. Alan C. Cutting alumni donations are made to Stephanie Mr. Robert J. Brugman Mrs. Sandra C. Cutting students seeking professional Anderson, a Ph.D. Dr. Charlotte A. Brunner growth. The grants enable student in Tatiana them to participate in meetings, * Dr. Michael R. Bueti Jessica Carney, Rynearson’s lab, was conferences and similar scholarly * Ms. Leslie Bulion an M.S. student awarded $1,000 for travel to the activities that are above and advised by Colleen American Geophysical Union’s * Dr. Edward J. Buskey Mouw, was awarded beyond their degree studies. Ocean Sciences Meeting. * Dr. Christopher J. Calabretta $1,000 for travel to the American Through this program, the benefit Mr. Daniel E. Campbell Geophysical Union’s Ocean of charitable giving is direct and Ms. Margo Beach Sciences Meeting. Ms. Kathleen T. Campbell personal. The 14 grants made in * Dr. David A. Bengtson * Mrs. Constance G. Carey 2019 are listed among those who * Dr. Veronica M. Berounsky * Dr. Steven N. Carey made them possible. * Ms. Maryanne B. Berry Xuanyu Chen, a Ms. Kathryn B. Carlson Ph.D. student in the * Dr. Walter J. Berry Ms. Marianne Casey Ginis and Hara labs, Ms. Gretchen Bloom Mr. Raymond P. Cassola received a $500 grant Mr. Peter Bloom for collaborative work at Penn Mrs. Rebecca L. Choiniere State. * Mrs. Ellen B. Boehm * Mr. Stephen R. Choiniere * Dr. Paul D. Boehm Mr. Patrick Cobb

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Mr. Paul Daley * Dr. Robinson W. Fulweiler Bing He, a Ph.D. Mr. Roger E. LeBeau * Dr. J. Paul Dauphin * Ms. Laima A. Gaidulis student in Matt Wei’s * Dr. Evelyn J. Lessard Mrs. LaWanda L. Dauphin * Dr. Arthur G. Gaines Jr. lab, was awarded * Ms. Noelle F. Lewis $1,000 for travel Mr. Geoffrey T. Davis Mrs. Jennifer S. Gaines to attend the fall meeting of the Mr. John L. Lillibridge III Ms. Christine H. Deacutis * Dr. Newell Garfield American Geophysical Union. Mr. Joshua Lipinski * Dr. Christopher F. Deacutis Ms. Cecilia E. Gelfman * Dr. Brooke A. Longval * Ms. Suzanne M. Ms. Mary M. Gerber * Dr. Ernesto Lorda Derry-Lorda * Dr. Ray P. Gerber Maggie Ms. Jane A. Desforges Heinichen, an Mr. Michael C. Gerhardt M.S. student advised Joseph Langan, Ms. Annette M. DeSilva * Dr. Graham S. Giese by Jeremy Collie, a Ph.D. student in * Dr. Barry E. Devine ‡ Mr. James R. Gilbert received a $600 grant to attend the Jeremy Collie’s lab, received a $500 grant Mr. D. Joseph Dickinson * Dr. Craig S. Gilman annual meeting of the American Fisheries Society. to attend the annual meeting of the * Mrs. Mariel O. Dickinson * Dr. Sharon L. Gilman American Fisheries Society. * Mr. Stephen M. Dickson * Dr. Thomas J. Glancy Jr. * Dr. Mary W. Doering Ms. Ruth A. Gobeille Kristin Huizenga, Mrs. Susan Macy * Dr. Peter H. Doering Mr. Curtis A. Gollard an M.S. student * Dr. William K. Macy III * Dr. Henry A. Donaldson * Dr. Donald C. Gordon Jr. advised by Candace Mr. John R. Mahoney Oviatt, was awarded Ms. Roberta E. Doran * Dr. Deborah H. Gove * Ms. Kathryn A. Mahoney $1,000 to help pay for a course at * Mr. Norman A. Dudziak Jr. * Mr. Stephen L. Granger the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Mr. Leo Mainelli * Dr. Kathleen A. Duffy * Dr. Burton M. Greifer Studies. Mrs. Lita A. Mainelli * Dr. Dean A. Dunn Mrs. Carol S. Greifer Mrs. Cynthia H. Maran Dr. J. Lawrence Dunn Mr. David T. Grzybowski Mr. William G. Isabella Mr. R. Timothy Maran Mrs. Bernice A. Durfee * Mr. John T. Gunn Ms. Krista A. Janigian * Dr. Lucie Maranda Dr. Wayne K. Durfee Mrs. Lorraine J. Gunn Mr. Marc S. Janigian * Dr. Guy D. Marchesseault * Dr. Robert L. Dwyer Ms. Susan H. Gustafson * Mrs. Catherine W. Johnson * Dr. Cynthia P. Maris Mr. George A. Hagerty Dr. William C. Johnson II * Dr. Mark A. Maris Isabel Dove, Mr. Bill Hahn * Dr. Paul S. Joyce Ms. Barbara W. Mark an M.S. student * Mrs. Lynne Z. Hale Mr. Thomas M. Kalinowski Mr. Scott G. Massoni advised by Rebecca * Dr. Lloyd D. Keigwin Robinson, received * Mr. Stephen S. Hale Ms. Glenna McCaffrey $1,000 for travel to Oregon State * Mr. Kurt A. Hanson * Dr. Darryl J. Keith Mr. William K. McCaffrey University. Ms. Mim G. Harrison * Dr. Robert D. Kenney * Dr. Harry B. McCarty * Dr. Nigel A. Harrison Mr. Everett E. Kenyon Jr. * Dr. Deborah P. McCay Ms. Sally L. Easton * Mr. Yuguang He * Dr. Richard A. Kerr Mr. James P. McEneaney Ms. Lyn Edmonds * Dr. Barbara W. Heavers * Dr. John A. Kiddon Mrs. Ruth L. McEneaney Mr. William Edmonds Ms. Marion C. Helwig Ms. Josephine A. Kiernan Mr. William J. McEneaney * Dr. William G. Ellis Jr. Mr. Stephen M. Hines Dr. John W. King Ms. Diane E. McGannon * Dr. Brooks B. Ellwood Mr. Thomas Hines Ms. Christine A. Kirch Mr. Richard T. McGannon * Dr. Jane A. Elrod * Dr. Kenneth R. Hinga * Mr. John J. Kosmark Ms. Diane M. McGregor Mr. David B. Esau * Mr. Richard C. Hittinger * Ms. Rebecca B. Kosmark * Ms. Ellen L. Mecray * Dr. Mary C. Fabrizio * Mrs. Victoria M. Hittinger Dr. William D. Kovacs Dr. Helen J. Mederer Mr. John F. Fahey Jr. Mr. Gerald L. Hoffman Ms. Patricia Kreinbihl Dr. Susanne Menden-Deuer Ms. Carol P. Fairfield Mr. Hugh H. Hoffman * Dr. James N. Kremer * Dr. Peter S. Meyer Mr. John Farrell Dr. Robert J. Howe * Dr. Patricia M. Kremer Ms. Karen A. Michalec * Dr. John W. Farrington Mr. Paul B. Howland * Ms. Kelly A. Kryc * Dr. Gerard R. Miller Jr. Mrs. Shirley G. Farrington Ms. Roma-Gayle Howland * Ms. Paula G. Kullberg Mrs. Susan C. Miller * Dr. Lindsey Fields * Dr. Suilou Huang * Dr. Elizabeth M. Laliberte Ms. Jane S. Miner * Dr. Michael L. Fine * Dr. Jeffrey E. Hughes * Dr. David Y. Lai Dr. Robert W. Morton * Dr. Paul W. Fofonoff * Ms. Melissa M. Hughes Mr. Joseph E. Lamoray * Dr. David R. Muerdter * Mrs. Beverly A. Fogg * Dr. Kimberly J. Hyde Mr. Michael Langlais Ms. Louise D. Munroe * Dr. Thomas R. Fogg Mr. Richard L. Lapan Jr. Mr. Walter W. Munroe * Mr. Carl S. Fontneau * Ms. Sarah A. Lawrence Mr. Charles D. Nash Jr. * Dr. Jeffrey B. Frithsen Mrs. Bernadine M. LeBeau Ms. Frances E. Nash

16 / URI GRADUATE SCHOOL OF OCEANOGRAPHY * = GSO ALUMNUS/A, ‡ = ADVISORY COUNCIL MEMBER Ms. Hilary Neckles Ms. Madeleine O. Sherman * Mrs. Virginia K. Tippie CORPORATIONS, * Mr. Dennis W. Nixon * Mrs. Roberta R. Sherman Mr. Richard J. Toole FOUNDATIONS AND Ms. Deborah M. O’Reilly * Dr. Frederick T. Short * Dr. Gregory A. Tracey ORGANIZATIONS Dr. James E. O’Reilly II * Mr. John P. Sifling Mr. James D. Turley * Dr. Daniel W. O’Sullivan Mr. David J. Sleczkowski * Dr. David C. Twichell Challenger Society Mr. Robert Ohaver Dr. David C. Smith * Ms. Nancy P. Twichell Anonymous * Ms. Felicia Olmeta-Schult * Dr. Linda Stathoplos Dr. David S. Ullman G Unger Vetlesen Mrs. Sally M. Olsen Mrs. Margaret M. Stout * Dr. Chathuarveedu K. Unni Foundation * Mr. Stephen B. Olsen Mr. Prentice K. Stout Ms. Donna Van Keuren Heising-Simons Foundation * Dr. Candace A. Oviatt Mr. John M. Sullivan Jr. * Dr. Jeffrey R. Van Keuren Prince Charitable Trusts * Dr. Henry S. Parker III * Dr. Andrew J. Sweatt * Dr. Gabriel A. Vargo The White Family * Dr. Richard E. Payne * Dr. Sandra L. Vargo Foundation Mr. David R. Pedrick Nina Santos, an * Dr. Douglas S. Vaughan Endeavor Society Ms. Laura S. Pedrick M.S. student advised * Ms. Nancy D. Vaughan Dr. Marguerite C. Pelletier by Kelton McMahon, * Dr. Terry L. Wade Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund was awarded Jeffrey Sobel Consulting Mrs. Carol G. Pesch $1,000 for travel to the American * Dr. Henry Walker * Dr. Gerald G. Pesch Dr. Robert L. Wallace Geophysical Union’s Ocean Beagle Society Dr. Michael E. Pilson Sciences Meeting. Mr. Godfrey Warren * Ms. Joan Pope Ms. Mary M. Wehle Schwab Charitable Fund Dr. Mark D. Prater * Dr. Robert H. Weisberg Virginie Sonnet, Trident Society Mr. Sheldon D. Pratt * Dr. Clifford P. Weisel a Ph.D. student in Judith Fillmore Trust * Dr. Alex A. Pszenny Colleen Mouw’s Mr. David H. Wells Ocean Exploration Trust Inc Ms. Anita Rafael lab, was awarded ‡ Rear Adm. Richard D. West $1,000 for travel to the American United Way Mr. B. Michael Rauh * Dr. William M. White Geophysical Union’s Ocean * Dr. Steve Rebach Sciences Meeting. * Dr. Sandra T. Whitehouse Nautilus Society * Ms. Nancy E. Reichley * Dr. J. Ross Wilcox Charlestown Animal Hospital * Ms. Ann K. Rheault * Dr. Dixon W. Wilde Ryan Family Foundation * Dr. Robert B. Rheault Angela Stahl, an Ms. Nancy L. Willoughby Twin Peaks Land & * Dr. Henry M. Rines M.S. student advised Dr. Mark Wimbush by Kelton McMahon, Cattle Co Dr. Jan E. Rines was awarded Ms. Reiko Wimbush Mrs. Nancy A. Robison $1,000 for travel to the American Dr. Karen Wishner Dr. Charles T. Roman Geophysical Union’s Ocean Mrs. Sara G. Woodruff Mrs. Nancy R Roman Sciences Meeting. * Mr. Spofford Woodruff * Ms. Catherine D. Roques

* Dr. Patrick F. Roques Rebecca Stevick, Xiaozhuo Wei, a Ph.D. student * Dr. David T. Rudnick a Ph.D. student in Yang Shen’s lab, was awarded Mr. Ernest G. Rusack advised by Anton Post $1,000 for travel to attend the fall meeting of the American * Dr. Scott D. Rutherford and Marta Gomez- Chiarri, received a $1,500 grant Geophysical Union. Dr. Tatiana A. Rynearson that was applied to a publication. * Ms. Kim Salisbury-Keith * Mr. Guo Qing Ye ‡ Mr. William H. Schlesinger Ms. Ellen W. Yoder * Dr. Courtney E. Schmidt Jacob Strock, * Dr. James A. Yoder a Ph.D. student in * Dr. Raymond W. Schmitt * Dr. Herman B. Zimmerman Susanne Menden- Mr. Eric T. Schoonover Deuer’s lab, was * Mr. Matthew B. Schult awarded $1,000 for equipment * Dr. David M. Schultz used on the Northwest Passage * Dr. Sybil P. Seitzinger Project. Dr. Kevin J. Shanaghan * Ms. Dolores M. Tapia Lange Mr. Mark Sharon * Dr. Paul R. Temple * Dr. Haiwei Shen Dr. Mark Terceiro Ms. Gladys G. Sherman Mr. Neil H. Thorp * Dr. Kenneth Sherman * Mr. Bruce E. Thunberg

2019 ANNUAL REPORT Graduate School of Oceanography Office of the Dean Narragansett Bay Campus Narragansett, RI 02882 USA

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2019 was the last full year of Bruce Corliss’ tenure as dean of URI’s Graduate School of Oceanography. His achievements and legacy— how his leadership shaped the course of GSO—is reviewed in the spring issue of Aboard GSO. On these pages, Dean Corliss shares reminiscences and inspirations from his time as a GSO student in the ’70s and from his seven-plus years of service as the school’s dean. URI and the GSO communities extend their thanks and a hearty “bon voyage” to Bruce as he departs for the next chapter in his remarkable career.

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