Publications
RHODE ISLAND SEA GRANT
Please send requests to: Publications, Rhode Island Sea Grant, University of Rhode Island Bay Campus, Narragansett, RI 02882-1197. Tel: (401) 874-6800. Make check or money order payable to Rhode Island Sea Grant/URI. Sorry, no credit cards accepted.
A Guide to Rhode Island’s Natural Places
Elizabeth Gibbs, Tony Corey, Malia Schwartz, Deborah Grossman-Garber, Carole Jaworski, and Margaret Bucheit
This classic guide to Rhode Island’s parks, refuges, trails, conservation areas, woodlands,
waterfronts, and other natural places is designed to help state residents and visitors discover,
appreciate, and enjoy the outdoor environment. This illustrated guide includes sites in every city
and town, with animals and plants to look for, as well as brief articles on the history and ecology
of various areas. A foldout map is included to help you find your way. 208 pages. RIU-B-94-001.
$15.
Urban Coastal Greenway Design Manual
Jennifer McCann, Sunshine Menezes, Grover Fugate, Caitlin Chaffee, James Boyd, and Monica Allard Cox (eds.)
The R.I. Coastal Resources Management Council’s Urban Coastal Greenway policy allows
redevelopment of the Metro Bay waterfront (that of Cranston, East Providence, Pawtucket, and
Providence) in a manner that integrates economic development with expanded public access
along and to the shoreline, and provides for the management, protection, and restoration of
valuable coastal habitats. Those applying to CRMC for permits under the policy are encouraged
to refer to this guide for assistance in following the policy’s stormwater management,
sustainable landscaping, and public access regulations. 70 pages. RIU-H-07-003. $3. Available free
on-line at seagrant.gso.uri.edu/metrosamp/.
Bycatch Reduction in the Directed Haddock Bottom Trawl
Fishery
David Beutel, Laura Skrobe, and Kathleen Castro
The Sustainable Fisheries Extension Program evaluated an experimental net, the “Eliminator
Trawl,” designed to target haddock while reducing bycatch of declining stocks of cod and flounder. Results showed the new gear catches just as much haddock as the existing gear, but
without catching the stocks of concern. The net configuration exploits the different behaviors
exhibited by groundfish when a net is dragged toward them. Haddock typically swim upward,
while cod and flounder swim downward when a net approaches. The report from this project is
now available. 39 pages. RIU-T-06-002. Available on-line at seagrant.gso.uri.edu/fisheries/haddock or
on loan from the National Sea Grant Library. Contact Joyce Winn at (401) 874-6114 or visit nsgl.gso.
uri.edu.
The Conceptual Approach to Lobster Shell Disease Revisited
Kathleen Castro, Jan Factor, Thomas Angell, and Donald Landers, Jr.
This paper presents a conceptual model for examination of shell disease that links
environmental stressors to physiological upsets and disease to population level impacts, and
can serve as a general model of disease in the marine environment. Reprinted from Journal of
Crustacean Biology 26(4):646–660. 14 pages. RIU-T-06-002. Available on loan from the National Sea
Grant Library. Contact Joyce Winn at (401) 874-6114 or visit nsgl.gso.uri.edu.
Rhode Island Sea Grant Program Guide 2006–2008
This booklet describes Rhode Island Sea Grant’s over $6 million investment in research,
outreach, legal, education, and communications programs based in Rhode Island in 2006–2008.
28 pages. RIU-Q-06-002. Free. Available on-line at seagrant.gso.uri.edu/about.
Events
The Estuarine Research Federation is holding its annual
conference on November 4 to 8 at the Providence
Convention Center. The theme of the conference is “Science
and Management: Observations/Syntheses/Solutions.” For
conference information, visit www.erf.org/erf2007/.
On November 30, 2007, Rhode Island Sea Grant and the
R.I. Department of Environmental Management Division of
Fish and Wildlife will sponsor a “Menhaden Science and Policy
Symposium.” The allocation of the menhaden resource is a
recurring contentious issue in Rhode Island. Rhode Islanders
deserve the opportunity to explore the current information
available about the menhaden resource. Visit seagrant.gso.uri.edu/fisheries/menhaden/index.html for more information.
The New England Regional Water Program will hold the “2007 New England Private Well Water Symposium” on
December 3 and 4 at the Hyatt Regency on Goat Island
in Newport. This year’s symposium will integrate research,
outreach, and regulatory efforts within the field of private
well protection in an effort to protect groundwater quality,
drinking water wells, and the health of those who depend
on these resources. Symposium details can be found at: www.
usawaterquality.org/newengland/wellsymposium/.
The Rhode Island Natural History Survey will present “Birds
and New England Native People: The Traditional Relationship”
with Shepard Krech, III, Brown Unniversity anthropology
professor and Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology director,
on December 5 from 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. at the URI Coastal
Institute’s Weaver Auditorium in Kingston. This lecture is part
of the Mark D. Gould Memorial Lecture Series. All lectures
are free and open to the public. Mark your calendars for the 13th Annual Rhode Island Natural
History Survey Conference on March 20, 2008. Visit www.uri.
edu/ce/rinhs for upcoming information.
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