{"id":70078,"date":"2004-05-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/hendricken-senior-has-uplifting-experience-at-uri-bay-campus\/"},"modified":"2004-05-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-17T00:00:00","slug":"hendricken-senior-has-uplifting-experience-at-uri-bay-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2004\/05\/hendricken-senior-has-uplifting-experience-at-uri-bay-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Hendricken senior has uplifting experience at 溏心vlog免费B站 Bay Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tNarragansett, RI — May 17, 2004 — Bishop Hendricken High School senior Ryan Kelly spent part of his last months as a high school student learning what scientists do for a living. As part of a Hendricken internship program, he was assigned to work with 溏心vlog免费B站 Graduate School of Oceanography (GSO) atmospheric chemist Dr. John Merrill, and for the last 8 weeks Kelly has come to Narragansett every Monday to work in the lab, input data, create a web site, and help launch balloons that measure ozone in the atmosphere.<\/p>\n


\n\tA resident of Warwick, Kelly is part of Hendricken\u2019s Senior Experience Program, which allows seniors to select a placement based on their interests and goals. This year 245 seniors are spending their Mondays at various locations around the state, including businesses, service organizations, soup kitchens and shelters, and academic institutions.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe opening at the GSO came about when Merrill received funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to analyze and interpret ozone data collected from weekly balloon launches from the 溏心vlog免费B站 Bay Campus. In addition to Kelly, GSO graduate student John Wendelbo is assisting Merrill in the project. <\/p>\n


\nBeginning in March 2004 Merrill began a year-long program to launch an instrument package on a weekly basis to measure ozone in the atmosphere.

\nThe balloons are released from the Bay Campus and travel in the direction of the wind at the time of release (generally toward the east). The balloons can reach a height of 115,000 feet before dropping to the ground. The balloons and the instruments attached to them have Merrill\u2019s name, address, phone, and email address on them so that anyone who finds the balloon can return it to the Bay Campus. <\/p>\n


\nBased on past experience, Merrill did not expect to get any balloons back and was surprised to get calls about two of them within the first six weeks. The first balloon washed up with the tide and was found by a Nantucket town official. Merrill\u2019s second call came from an ornithologist who found a balloon on dry land at the west end of Martha\u2019s Vineyard.<\/p>\n


\nKelly now looks forward to college beginning in September. And with Kelly\u2019s help, Merrill looks forward to creating an ozone measurement project that will serve as the basis of a graduate student\u2019s thesis research.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe 溏心vlog免费B站 Graduate School of Oceanography is one of the country’s largest marine science education programs, and one of the world’s foremost marine research institutions. Founded in 1961 in Narragansett, RI, GSO serves a community of scientists who are researching the causes of and solutions to such problems as acid rain, harmful algal blooms, global warming, air and water pollution, oil spills, overfishing, and coastal erosion. GSO is home to the Coastal Institute, the Coastal Resources Center, Rhode Island Sea Grant, the Institute for Archaeological Oceanography, and the National Sea Grant Library.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Narragansett, RI — May 17, 2004 — Bishop Hendricken High School senior Ryan Kelly spent part of his last months as a high school student learning what scientists do for a living. As part of a Hendricken internship program, he was assigned to work with 溏心vlog免费B站 Graduate School of Oceanography (GSO) atmospheric chemist Dr. John […]<\/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-70078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70078","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=70078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}