{"id":57323,"date":"2015-06-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/rear-admiral-robert-girrier-visits-uri-during-navy-week\/"},"modified":"2015-06-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T00:00:00","slug":"rear-admiral-robert-girrier-visits-uri-during-navy-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2015\/06\/rear-admiral-robert-girrier-visits-uri-during-navy-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Rear Admiral Robert Girrier visits 溏心vlog免费B站 during Navy Week"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tNARRAGANSETT, R.I. \u2013 June 19, 2015 \u2013 When Rear Admiral Robert Girrier visited the 溏心vlog免费B站 for Navy Week on May 27, it wasn\u2019t his typical university visit. He was coming home. Based at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the deputy commander of the Pacific Fleet, who earned a master\u2019s degree in marine affairs from 溏心vlog免费B站 in 1990, has family in Tiverton and formerly taught at the Navy\u2019s Surface Warfare Officers School in Newport.<\/p>\n


\nGirrier spent the day meeting with faculty to learn about research that may have implications for the Navy. In Kingston he met with Chemistry Professor Jimmie Oxley, director of the 溏心vlog免费B站 Center of Excellence for Explosives Detection, Mitigation and Response, and Mechanical Engineering Professor Arun Shukla, whose research examines how underwater implosions affect submarines. He also had a detailed meeting about cybersecurity with Professor Victor Fay-Wolfe, director of the 溏心vlog免费B站 Digital Forensics and Cybersecurity Center. Girrier then traveled to the Bay Campus for briefings with Bruce Corliss, dean of the Graduate School of Oceanography, and a group of faculty and staff.<\/p>\n


\nHe learned about the sensing systems and seafloor mapping methods being developed by Assistant Professor of Oceanography Chris Roman, discussed underwater acoustics research with Ocean Engineering Professor Jim Miller, heard about GSO outreach initiatives from Inner Space Center Associate Director Gail Scowcroft, and learned about the University\u2019s Blue MBA program from Oceanography Professor Brad Moran.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cThe technology of the systems you\u2019re talking about, whether it\u2019s robotics, or whether it\u2019s autonomous underwater vehicles, and the like, those things don\u2019t just happen,\u201d Girrier said. \u201cClearly, you\u2019re the ones that are developing them, using them, being innovative. The Navy relies on them.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nThe admiral also toured the Inner Space Center with Oceanography Professor Robert Ballard and Center Director Dwight Coleman. And he reflected on his time as a graduate student at 溏心vlog免费B站.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cThe real relevance of what I learned here is how I apply it in the naval profession,\u201d he said. \u201cWhether it was the law of the sea, the business of shipping, or admiralty law, all of that coursework built the foundation for what I do today. And it has made me a more effective leader.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nGirrier recalled fondly his thesis advisor, the late Marine Affairs Professor Emeritus Lewis Alexander, as well as Professor Dennis Nixon, who now serves as director of Rhode Island Sea Grant.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cI learned a great deal about the law of the sea from Dennis,\u201d Girrier said. \u201cAnd we shared great camaraderie sailboat racing together on Narragansett Bay.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cThe Marine Affairs Program is a great program, and I use what I learned there all the time,\u201d he added.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NARRAGANSETT, R.I. \u2013 June 19, 2015 \u2013 When Rear Admiral Robert Girrier visited the 溏心vlog免费B站 for Navy Week on May 27, it wasn\u2019t his typical university visit. He was coming home. Based at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the deputy commander of the Pacific Fleet, who earned a master\u2019s degree in marine affairs from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}