by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Sep 23, 2024 | Events, News, Research
The group of over 40 people gathered on a narrow walkway at Barrington Town Beach drew quizzical looks from passersby. Perhaps it was the large posterboard showing aerial views of Barrington shoreline access points, or perhaps it was the sight of the town’s planning...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Sep 21, 2024 | Coastal Communities, News
In southern Rhode Island, a critical piece of coastal infrastructure is in trouble. The Charlestown Breachway is a rock jetty lining the channel connecting Ninigret Pond to Block Island Sound. Conceived of more than a century ago, and completed in 1952, the breachway...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Sep 6, 2024 | Coastal Communities, Marine Law, News, Students
The Block Island Ferry terminal is vulnerable to threats from climate change, such as increased storms and rising sea levels. On a sunny Tuesday morning in late June, students from the Roger Williams University School of Law Marine Affairs Institute’s Coastal...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Aug 14, 2024 | News, Sustainable Seafood
Rhode Island’s aquaculture industry provides over $6M annually in farm-gate value and employs nearly 400 people. Aquaculture is one of the state’s priority areas for economic vitality, but it faces many challenges to its continued growth. Recent, contentious lease...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Jul 26, 2024 | Events, News, Uncategorized
Shoreline access signs sometimes disappear or are damaged or obscured. The town of Bristol has solved this problem at a number of their rights-of-way (ROWs) by installing granite markers—monoliths that go several feet into the ground and are carved with the words...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Jul 24, 2024 | News, Research
Temperature and interactions with other types of phytoplankton appear to indicate heightened domoic acid risk from Pseudo-nitzschia Harmful algal blooms closed portions of Narragansett Bay to shellfish harvesting twice in the last decade—once in September 2016 and...
