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Contents

Urban Coasts & Communities
Can We Have Sustainable Coastal Cities?
By Barry A. Costa-Pierce
Innovation meets ecology in successful urban coastal areas—
one of coastal science's last great frontiers. Understanding and
maintaining a healthy environmental and economic balance is
a challenge for natural and social scientists, engineers, and urban
planners.
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Special Area Management Plans: A Powerful Tool for
Planning in Urban Areas
By Malia Schwartz and Monica Allard Cox
Special Area Management Plans (SAMPs) address environmental,
economic, and social issues in coastal areas. Rhode Island,
a national leader in SAMP development, is using SAMPs to foster
redevelopment in urban areas while providing for habitat restoration,
disaster resiliency, and public access to the shore.
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Pull of the Sea: Father-Son Teams Make Tugboats a
Family Tradition
By Monica Allard Cox
The allure of tugboating has drawn families to work at Providence
Steamboat Company, where the “personal reward” of
the job outweighs the unpredictable schedule and long days.
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Making the Waterfront Work: A Case for True Mixed-Use
Redevelopment of Providence Harbor
By Austin Becker
The sometimes-unseen global gateway that is the Port of Providence
may be threatened by proposals that seek to phase out
industrial waterfront uses with tourism, recreation, and housing.
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A Green Way to Grow
By Monica Allard Cox
The makings of a greenway exist in the cities lining northern
Narragansett Bay. Creating that greenway, which would combine
habitat protection with public access to the shore, is the
challenge the R.I. Coastal Resources Management Council has
undertaken with a new policy tailored to the urban coast.
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The One River Project: Arts, Economics, and the
Environment Join Forces
By Chip Young
The Blackstone River is the focus of a collaboration between the
Rhode Island School of Design and the R.I. Economic Policy
Council to bring scientists, engineers, and designers together to
create a model for how great waterfronts are made.
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Brownfields and the Bay
By Chip Young
Once-contaminated sites along Narragansett Bay are being reborn
as coastal developers are taking a chance on brownfields
with the help of state and federal agencies and private financial
institutions.
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Upper Bay Cities Prepare for an Ill Wind
By Monica Allard Cox
The last 30 years have been relatively quiet, but one expert
from the National Weather Service warns the next major hurricane
could be right around the corner—and hit Rhode Island
harder than ever before.
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No Escaping BayScape
By Monica Allard Cox
Two URI marine affairs professors won't ask how you spent
your summer vacation—they already know.
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Designing Providence's Riverfront Revival
By Tom Ardito
Twenty-five years ago, people didn't even know where
Providence's rivers were. One architectural firm proposed to
change that.
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My Bayfaring Adventures
By Monica Allard Cox
Getting the most out of Coastweeks requires a steady hand
and a strong stomach.
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Narragansett Bay Commission Monitors Water Quality in
Upper Bay
By Chip Young
An aggressive water-quality monitoring program tracks not
only Narragansett Bay Commission treatment facilities' effects
on the Bay, but those of other pollution sources as well.
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Up to the Minute:
The Biggest Project You'll Never See
By Jamie Samons
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IN BRIEF

Governor's Bay Summit touts accomplishments, welcomes Ames Colt to Coordination Team helm
By Malia Schwartz
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Symposium honors retired Sea Grant director
By Monica Allard Cox
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Rhode Island Sea Grant Legal Program increases outreach, hires research counsel
By Monica Allard Cox
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Northeast Sea Grant programs net funding for ecosystem-based management
By Malia Schwartz
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Sea Grant Law Fellow marks International Maritime Court "first"
By Tory Randall
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New Sea Grant research may hold the answer to $100 million question
By Malia Schwartz
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