June 7th & 8th, 2017 from 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM The URI Coastal Institute and rhodyRstats are pleased to announce the 2017 Data Carpentry workshop on June 7th & 8th. Space is limited and registration is required. To register please visit: https://rhodyrstats_datacarpentry.eventbrite.com Details: Data Carpentry workshops are for any researcher who has data they want to […]
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Annual Scientific Support of Environmental Emergency Response (SSEER) workshop
–PLEASE NOTE, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED. New date to be announced shortly. Large Conference Room of the Narragansett Bay Campus The purpose of the annual SSEER workshop is to share resources and provide training to improve the ability of scientists, administrators, communicators, and first responders to assist the state of Rhode Island in addressing environmental […]
Continue reading "Annual Scientific Support of Environmental Emergency Response (SSEER) workshop"The Global Ocean: Racial Geographies and the Oceanic Humanities
April 12, 2017, 9:30 to 4:30 pm, URI Multicultural Student Services Center, 74 Lower College Road, Kingston, RI 02881 #globaloceanURI Register Here The Global Ocean: Racial Geographies and the Oceanic Humanities is day-long symposium sponsored by the Edmund S. and Nathalie Rumowicz Lecture Series in Literature and the Sea,the Departments of English, History, and Philosophy, the URI […]
Continue reading "The Global Ocean: Racial Geographies and the Oceanic Humanities"Workshop: Research as Fundamental to Excellence in Outreach
Workshop for URI Communicators, Researchers, Graduate Students, & Undergraduate Students Thursday, March 23rd, 10am-11:30am URI Bay Campus, Mosby Center Research can be both fascinating and frustrating. Dr. Maury Klein, a URI professor emeritus, offers insight to the world of historical and cultural archives, obscure databases and private repositories. Klein is the author of 18 books and […]
Continue reading "Workshop: Research as Fundamental to Excellence in Outreach"Adventures in Crafting a Data Science Career
Thursday, March 30th 2:00pm – 3:00pm URI Graduate School of Oceanography, Coastal Institute Auditorium, Narragansett Join the University of Rhode Island (URI) Coastal Institute and RhodyRStats on Thursday, March 30th as we kick-off off our “Careers in R” speaker series. Special guest Jasmine Dumas, a data scientist at Simple Finance, will share her journey from biomedical engineering to […]
Continue reading "Adventures in Crafting a Data Science Career"5th Annual Scott W. Nixon Lecture: A 21st century look at the global ocean conveyor belt
Date: Thursday, April 13th at 3:30 PM-5:00PM Location: Coastal Institute Auditorium, URI Narragansett Bay Campus Reception to follow at 5:00PM in Studio Blue. Guest Speaker Dr. Susan Lozier Ronie-Richele Garcia-Johnson Professor, Earth and Ocean Sciences Nicholas School of the Environment Duke University You may watch a live webcast of the lecture at: https://www.youtube.com/user/CoastURI For further information […]
Continue reading "5th Annual Scott W. Nixon Lecture: A 21st century look at the global ocean conveyor belt"Book Discussion: Rhode Island’s Shellfish Heritage: an Ecological History
Join the author Sarah Schumann and Warwick Quahogger John Harvey for a discussion of Rhode Island’s Shellfish Heritage: an Ecological History February 8 7 p.m. Warwick Public Library 600 Sandy Lane Warwick, RI Through historical accounts and contemporary interviews, Sarah Schumann offers a glimpse into shellfisheries of years past through today. She brings to light the […]
Continue reading "Book Discussion: Rhode Island’s Shellfish Heritage: an Ecological History"The Nature Conservancy Global Marine Initiative University of Rhode Island Student Research Award Program 2017
The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and the University of Rhode Island (URI) announces a small grants program to support scholarly research by graduate students in collaboration with URI faculty sponsors in ocean and estuarine science and policy. Applicants may request two years of funding (a maximum of $12,000 per year); however, approval for a second year […]
Continue reading "The Nature Conservancy Global Marine Initiative University of Rhode Island Student Research Award Program 2017"Upcoming lecture
Illustrating Science with David Macaulay October 27th 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. Talk followed by reception in Studio Blue of the Coastal Institute Building with light refreshments and book signing. Talk will be held at Narragansett Bay Campus, Corless Auditorium Directions: http://www.gso.uri.edu/about/visitor-information/ RSVP Required: https://form.jotform.com/coastalinstitute/david-macaulay-talk-rsvp Illustrator and author David Macaulay will speak at the Coastal Institute […]
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Join Us for a Special Screening Woven in Time: The Narragansett Salt Pond Preserve Followed by discussion with filmmaker Marc Leavitt Thursday, May 26th 5:30pm-7:00pm fruit & cookies served prior to screening URI Graduate School of Oceanography, Bay Campus Coastal Institute Auditorium Woven in Time: The Narragansett Salt Pond Preserve is a 57-minute documentary film about a […]
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