by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Sep 18, 2025 | Coastal Communities, News
URI Research and Outreach Team Seeks Community Input on Priorities, Concerns Rhode Island is one of the most low-lying states in the U.S., and the town of Warren is among its most flood-vulnerable municipalities. A research and outreach team from the University of...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Sep 10, 2025 | News, Research
When we think about life on Earth, we might picture scenes from a BBC Planet Earth special—vast rainforests, grasslands, or blue oceans. Yet a new study reveals how the “in-between” spaces—lakes, rivers, wetlands, estuaries, and continental shelves—are...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Sep 3, 2025 | Coastal Communities, News
Coastal geologist Janet Freedman talks about how high tides push seawater back up through the storm drain at the Oakland Beach seawall, flooding the parking lot. Wenley Ferguson is in the foreground in the Save The Bay t-shirt. Photo by Amanda Gilmore Warwick’s...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Sep 2, 2025 | Coastal Communities, News, Research
Earlier this summer, a first-of-its-kind study, funded by Rhode Island Sea Grant, mapped the movement and accumulation of microplastics in Narragansett Bay, finding the highest concentrations near urban centers, which are shaped by river runoff and wind patterns. Read...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Aug 29, 2025 | News
Looking out from the University of Rhode Island’s Bay Campus in Narragansett, the waters of Rhode Island Sound and Narragansett Bay stretch toward the horizon, carrying fishing boats, ferries, and research vessels through the same channels. It was here on this...
