{"id":60284,"date":"2012-08-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-oceanography-fellowships-provide-future-scientists-with-hands-on-summer-research-opportunities-2\/"},"modified":"2012-08-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T00:00:00","slug":"uri-oceanography-fellowships-provide-future-scientists-with-hands-on-summer-research-opportunities-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2012\/08\/uri-oceanography-fellowships-provide-future-scientists-with-hands-on-summer-research-opportunities-2\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 oceanography fellowships provide future scientists with hands-on summer research opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tStudents from 12 universities receive intensive marine science experience<\/p>\n


\n\tNARRAGANSETT, R.I. \u2013 August 9, 2012 \u2013 Undergraduate students from 12 colleges and universities around the country spent the last 10 weeks conducting cutting-edge oceanographic research through the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships in Oceanography program.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe students — from Cornell University, the University of California at Berkley and Worcester Polytechnic Institute, among others \u2013 were each assigned to a research project led by faculty and graduate students at the 溏心vlog免费B站 Graduate School of Oceanography to gain an appreciation for the interdisciplinary character of marine science research.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThis program allows us to share our enthusiasm for oceanography with undergraduate students and make them aware that training in the basic sciences or engineering is both applicable and necessary for the complex challenges facing oceanographic researchers,\u201d said Kathleen Donohue, associate professor of oceanography and co-coordinator of the program.<\/p>\n


\n\tKayla Flynn of Johnston, for instance, analyzed surface winds in Buzzards Bay and at T.F. Green Airport to examine their seasonal and yearly variability and to assess the effect of climate change on the winds.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThis project gave me first-hand experience in a graduate school environment and solidified my decision to continue my education to get my master\u2019s degree,\u201d said Flynn, who studies atmospheric science and applied mathematics at Lyndon State College in Vermont. \u201cI met so many brilliant and caring people at GSO who really want the best for you.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tCindy Cesar of Providence is a biology major and chemistry minor at Rhode Island College who plans to become a veterinarian. She spent the summer studying the diet of a species of zooplankton that is an important food source for many creatures in Narragansett Bay.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cMy favorite part of this experience had to be getting a real life look at what it’s like to be in graduate school,\u201d Cesar said. \u201cWe got to experience not only the research and school part of it, but also the living away from home and having to fend for ourselves aspect of it, too. From this experience I feel as though I truly know what it’s like to be a graduate student studying oceanography.\u201d <\/p>\n


\n\tThe experience also opened her eyes to other career possibilities.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cAt first I never truly considered the aquatic animals in my future as a vet, but after this experience I’ve come to see that I really love the water, the atmosphere, and the animals alike,\u201d Cesar said. \u201cThis experience has made me see that maybe house pets aren’t the only animals I may be interested in working with when I finally do step into my career as a vet.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tJulie Warner of North Kingstown, a math and physics major at American University in Washington, D.C., applied for the fellowship as a way of exploring whether oceanography might be a good career choice.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThe best part was working with people who are so excited by their research,\u201d said Warner, who studied the factors that affect the radius of ocean eddies. \u201cThe program was really beneficial because it gave me a good idea of what graduate school will be like. It also gave me a better understanding of what goes into research much better than undergraduate classes do.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tThe 溏心vlog免费B站 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships in Oceanography program began in 1984 and has been funded by the Office of Naval Research, the Department of Defense and the National Science Foundation. More than 200 students have participated in the program through the years, and 75 percent have gone on to attend graduate school in a science, math or engineering discipline.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Students from 12 universities receive intensive marine science experience NARRAGANSETT, R.I. \u2013 August 9, 2012 \u2013 Undergraduate students from 12 colleges and universities around the country spent the last 10 weeks conducting cutting-edge oceanographic research through the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships in Oceanography program. The students — from Cornell […]<\/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-60284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60284","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=60284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}