Following the DEM's two-year Air Toxic Study, South Providence residents are advocating for a plan to address the air pollution in the area. Professor Meredith Hastings, the Breathe Providence project leader, commented on the air quality, saying, "We know there’s a lot of bad stuff in the air. Sometimes it’s illegal. It’s definitely cancer-causing.” Linda Perri, head of the Washington Park Neighborhood Association, told City Council members and planners, “We need to have a say in how the growth is going to happen, especially because we breathe the air and we live in the shadow of the port.”

In a recent publication, former DEEPS postdoc Lily Dove and team investigate upper ocean vertical velocities by using high resolution sea surface height observations collected by the Surface Water and Ocean Topography altimeter along with interior hydrographic measurements from ocean gliders. "This analysis is a step towards generating temporally-varying vertical tracer fluxes for the circumpolar Southern Ocean."