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Webinar Features Narragansett Coastal Access Efforts
The Narragansett Town Council, in 2021, allowed parking at three CRMC shoreline rights-of-way in Point Judith, and established the Coastal Access...
Coastal Resilience Overlays for Bristol County
Coastal resilience overlays may be a useful tool in helping communities become more resilient.
Capstone Experience Connects URI Students, Coastal Communities
URI students from a variety of disciplines come together to propose solutions for improving coastal resilience in real-world situations.
Municipal Parking and Public Shoreline Access
Availability of parking near public rights-of-way to the shoreline is key to allowing meaningful access, but it’s also controversial.
Researchers Look at Direct Sales of Lobster
Research seeks to understand how–and if–direct sales helped local lobstermen in the COVID-19 pandemic. Two social scientists talked about their process in a recent webinar.
Webinar series: Climate Change Effects on Recreational Fishing and Boating
Climate Change Effects on Recreational Fishing and Boating: Opportunities and Actions is a two-part webinar series that engaged Northeast...
Rhode Island Sea Grant Invests Over $2 million in Research on Harmful Algal Blooms, Rust Tides, and Multi-use of Marine Resources
Sea Grant-funded research to address environmental conditions that trigger blooms and rust tides, and multiple-use challenges of marine resources in Rhode Island.
“Infinity Fish”: Preserving Ocean Resources for Future Generations
Economist Rashid Sumaila discusses how placing a dollar value on things associated with a resource—like cultural and social values, employment, health, and the environment—can motivate communities to make choices that preserve those resources.
Native American Heritage Month
Rhode Island’s coastal and marine areas are a part of the ancestral homelands of the Narragansett, Nipmuc, Wampanoag, and Niantic nations. Indigenous peoples from many nations continue to live, study, and work in what we call Rhode Island today.
Events
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Feb.
Recreational Fishing and Offshore Wind Energy
8-10
Mar.