Climate Change Human impacts Undergraduate Research
SURFO Special: Has COVID-19 Affected Plane Emissions?
Since March, COVID-19 has had a huge impact on how we live our day-to-day lives. But how has it changed…
Author: Nyla Husain
I'm a PhD student at the University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography. I use a small-scale computer model to study how physical features like surface waves at the air-sea interface produce friction for the wind that can limit momentum, energy, gas, and heat exchange between the ocean and atmosphere. In the future, I hope to learn more about the role waves play in different parts of the world as weather and climate patterns evolve. Also, I love to write.
Physical oceanography Undergraduate Research
SURFO Special: The Power of a Swirl
What makes the Mid Atlantic Bight off the U.S. East Coast so unique? SURFO student Madeline Mamer spent this past…
Climate Change
A call for clouds in climate models
In this throwback to last March, learn how clouds influence the greenhouse effect. This climate modeling study focused on their…
Climate Change Coral Ecology
Climate-driven events leave an imprint on corals in the Great Barrier Reef
In this re-post, we discuss the ecological memory of corals from bleaching events that occurred back-to-back in 2016 and 2017.…
Climate Change Human impacts
Envisioning a better world with climate impact modeling
After October 2018, the global perspective on climate change started to shift. We dive into climate impact models, and how…
Climate Change
One thousand ways to experience climate loss
What exactly are we at risk of losing as the planet warms? One recent study aims to track climate-driven loss…
Biogeochemistry Climate Change Ecology Genetics genomics Microbiology
Think global, act local: how lake microbes respond to their environments
How do microbes in lake sediments respond to small and large scale influences, and what does it have to do…
Sea-level Rise
SURFO Special: GPS – An Unconventional Tidal Gauge
Every summer, the URI Graduate School of Oceanography hosts undergraduate research interns called SURFOs. In this post, learn about Ben…
Climate Change Coastal Management Conservation Human impacts
Power plays in low carbon pathways: how elite groups may influence a green transition
Learn how elite groups can guide and shape climate initiatives (spoiler alert: it's spoooooky) - and what we can do…
Climate Change
Lost in transmission: how the delivery of electricity has its own carbon emissions
The life cycle of electric power is more complex than we give it credit for. Learn how researchers have estimated…
Ecology Fisheries
SURFO Special: Keep clam and carry on! Comparing diet differences in awning clams and quahogs
Every summer, the URI Graduate School of Oceanography hosts undergraduate research interns called SURFOs. In this post, learn about Sommer…
Geology
SURFO Special: Surveying hazardous faults during Eastern Haiti’s 270-year earthquake hiatus
Every summer, the URI Graduate School of Oceanography hosts undergraduate research interns called SURFOs. In this post, learn about Kamal…
Climate Change Human impacts
Tracking the transience of lake ice in a changing climate
Changes in seasonal lake ice are threatening the lives of those who depend on it. Find out how scientists are…
Coastal Management Human impacts
New York City’s poop is a source of greenhouse gas emissions. Now what?
The Hudson River has been a Superfund site since 1984, but pollution continues to be a problem today.
Biological oceanography Physical oceanography Remote Sensing
Rugged Southern Ocean phytoplankton weather the storms
Phytoplankton from the "wild west" of the world's oceans have learned to regrow after storms... over and over and over…
Climate Change
Do we know what it means to engineer the climate?
At this point, it's undeniable that the climate is changing rapidly. What are our options for mitigation? Many scientists are…
Ecology
Beyond cannibalism, can tide pools help explain the universe?
It turns out tide pools are a lot more complex than they seem - and often inhabited by cannibals. Can…
Biological oceanography
Millennial algae are not as productive: lazy, or less sea ice opportunities?
Why aren't Arctic phytoplankton as productive as they used to be? Is it a lazy millennial thing, or something more…
Sea Turtles
Turtle hatchlings attracted to artificial light like moths to a flame
On this Turtle Tuesday, find out how artificial lighting along coastlines due to industrial and commercial development is affecting sea…
Climate Change
The ongoing story of Hurricane Harvey
With the start of the 2018 hurricane season, we explore what happened last year during one of the costliest hurricanes…