NARRAGANSETT, R.I., July 13, 2017\u2014Important research is going on at the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Graduate School of Oceanography, and students there are ready to explain it to you and answer your questions during free monthly talks.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Bay Informed Discussion Series\u201d kicked off last month with a talk about climate change in the ocean and its influence on Narragansett Bay and will continue July 20 to discuss the influence of a warming ocean and atmosphere in causing severe weather.<\/p>\n
\u201cStorms on the Horizon: Climate Change and Weather\u201d by graduate students Nyla Husain and Victoria Treadaway will start at 7 p.m. in GSO\u2019s Corless Auditorium, 215 South Ferry Road, Narragansett. No registration is required; parking is available.<\/p>\n
\u201cGlobal warming is changing the way the ocean interacts with the atmosphere, causing stronger and more frequent severe weather across the globe,\u201d says Joe Langan, program coordinator and doctoral student at GSO. \u201cThis seminar will describe how air-sea interactions affect marine weather by the transport of heat, momentum and gases at the ocean surface. We\u2019ll also focus on how storms affect the atmosphere\u2019s chemistry.\u201d<\/p>\n
Langan says the purpose of the monthly series is to inform the public about important environmental and scientific issues involving the ocean and spark an interest in getting involved locally and nationally.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the current media environment, we feel it\u2019s important to communicate our science directly to the public and talk about some of the marine science issues in Rhode Island and across the globe,\u201d says Langan. \u201cWe also want to get better communicating our science. We\u2019re used to giving very technical presentations, but for the layperson they don\u2019t make sense. This gives graduate students (at GSO) an opportunity to improve their science communication skills.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nearly 100 people attended last month\u2019s event. The students gave presentations and then took questions from the audience. \u201cThe auditorium was filled,\u201d Langan says. \u201cWe were happy with that, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n
The August talk will be about carbon in the ocean, and plans for the following months include topics such as oceanography at the North and South Poles and studying past climate to understand future climate change. Talks will be on the third Thursday of every month through the academic year.<\/p>\n
For more information, email gsobayinformed@gmail.com<\/a> or visit the organizers\u2019 Facebook page. https:\/\/m.facebook.com\/bayinformed\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NARRAGANSETT, R.I., July 13, 2017\u2014Important research is going on at the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Graduate School of Oceanography, and students there are ready to explain it to you and answer your questions during free monthly talks. \u201cThe Bay Informed Discussion Series\u201d kicked off last month with a talk about climate change in the ocean […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73119,"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-73117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73117","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=73117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}