Program Administration

“Naturalist’s Log” looks at menhaden, and the results of last November’s Menhaden Science and Policy Symposium

Rhode Island Sea Grant’s assistant director, Alan Desbonnet, writes “The Naturalist’s Log” for On the Water magazine, and recently featured November’s Menhaden Science and Policy Symposium in a series of columns. The first column was published in May’s newsletter, the second in June. This month we feature the final of the menhaden columns. To read more of “The Naturalist’s Log,” visit www.onthewater.com/Naturalistlog.htm.

Menhaden, the Fish that Manures, Part 3
How are Atlantic menhaden faring in Narragansett Bay? Population estimates indicate stocks are healthy, but these estimates have significant limitations. Download pdf. Used by permission of On the Water magazine.

41°N garners publishing prize
41°N won a 2008 Apex Award for publication excellence in the magazines and journals category. The prize, awarded by Communications Concepts, honors Volume 3, Issue 2, which focuses on urban coasts and communities. The 41°N team included Malia Schwartz, managing editor, Monica Allard Cox and Chip Young, contributing editors, and Wendy Andrews-Bolster, designer.

National Sea Grant focuses on “Healthy Coasts”
The National Sea Grant College Program has established focus areas to address coastal issues of national significance. Barry Costa-Pierce, Rhode Island Sea Grant director, along with Dorn Carlson, National Sea Grant Office research director, are co-chairs of the focus area on healthy coastal ecosystems. The team met recently to discuss strategies for achieving goals of providing sound scientific information to support ecosystem-based management and restore degraded ecosystems.