URI picked as home of NOAA’s new $94M ocean exploration institute

William Hamilton

05/07/2019

THE OCEAN EXPLORATION COOPERATIVE INSTITUTE will be based at the University of Rhode Island, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has announced. / COURTESY UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND

NARRAGANSETT – The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has selected the University of Rhode Island to host its new ocean exploration institute. NOAA and URI said the Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute will be a consortium of five ocean science institutions, led by URI's Graduate School of Oceanography, that will survey 3 billion acres of U.S.…