NARRAGANSETT—As one turns off of Old Boston Neck onto South Ferry Road, past the old Baptist Church, you drive along a thickly wooded road on both sides and come upon a village of modern buildings. The Environmental Research Laboratory, the Pell Marine Science and National Sea Grant Libraries, and at the very end the pier which docks the research vessel Endeavor before it journeys out into the world’s oceans, all of these buildings stand before you. This is the home of the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography.