October-November 2007 Newsletter

• Staff Spotlight: Meet Jennifer McCann
• Legal program director heads to Washington
• Symposium addresses menhaden science, policy issues
• Virginia Lee honored for service to Sea Grant, state
• Narragansett Bay: What we know, what we don't know, what the future might hold
• Urban Coastal Greenway Design Manual offers guidance on following new coastal buffer policy for Metro Bay region
• Rhode Island Sea Grant submits omnibus proposal to NOAA for 2008-2010
• Environmental and maritime law resources website announced
• Estuarine Research Federation 2007 Conference comes to Providence
• Legal program attorney presents Public Trust information
• Plans emerging for Woonasquatucket River
• Researchers assess tuna farming/ranching in Mexico
• Legal program sponsors marine renewable energy workshop & keynote lecture on Cape Wind
• Legal program sponsors sustainability town hall meetings
  October 9 & 31, 2007
• Higgins presents invited talk on legal implications of sea level rise