Coastal Communities & Ecosystems
Latest issue of 41ºN explores urban coasts
The current issue of 41ºN, a publication of Rhode Island Sea Grant and the URI Coastal Institute, focuses on working waterfronts, greenways, water quality, and hurricane threats and their effects on urban coasts. Such articles include:
- Rhode Island communities and their preparation for hurricanes
- Threats marine businesses face
- Where a forest grows along urban northern Narragansett Bay and what is being done to protect it
- How Rhode Island is reclaiming brownfields
- What’s happening with “The Biggest Project You’ll Never See”
- Local law student serves as an ambassador to an international court
- How scientists are utilizing tanks to replicate the waters of Narragansett Bay to better understand the Bay’s future
- Read all this and more at seagrant.gso.uri.edu/41N.
Shell Disease in Lobsters: A Synthesis by J. Stanley Cobb and Kathleen Castro is now available. The authors present what is known about lobster shell disease, a mysterious ailment that causes ugly lesions on lobster shells and sometimes leaves the animals unable to molt. To order copies of the complete synthesis please send a $3 check (for shipping and handling) to:
Rhode Island Sea Grant Communications
University of Rhode Island Bay Campus
Narragansett, RI 02882
For more information about current research on this issue, visit the New England Lobster Research Initiative website at: seagrant.gso.uri.edu/fisheries/lobster_initiative.
