September 2007 Newsletter

• Staff Spotlight: Meet Heather Rhodes
• Coastweeks 2007 offers events from September 15 to October 13
• Coastweeks highlight: Trawl trips offer more than fish tales
• October 19 & 20: Symposium speaker brings local, national experience to “Creating Vibrant Waterfronts in Rhode Island”
• Roger Williams University Marine Affairs Institute announces fall lectures on Cape Wind, marine conservation
• Workshop: “Environmental Justice in the Energy Age”
• November 30: Menhaden symposium addresses science, policy issues
• National Sea Grant College Program group meets in Rhode Island, develops “A Plan for Strategic Planning”
• Conference examines legal, policy challenges of coastal development pressure
• Sustainable Fisheries Program announces schedule of upcoming conferences
• Papers available from the 5th Baird Symposium
• Report assesses salmon aquaculture impacts