by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Jun 10, 2026 | Coastal Communities, News, Research
A new CoastSnap station at Crescent Beach is giving Block Island residents and visitors the opportunity to help document shoreline change while contributing to ongoing coastal research. Installed last week by Rhode Island Sea Grant-supported researchers in partnership...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | May 4, 2026 | News, Research
Rhode Island Sea Grant has awarded funding for a new portfolio of coastal and marine research projects for 2026–2028 that will support sustainable management of Rhode Island’s coastal and marine resources. Supported through its competitive research program, the...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Feb 8, 2026 | About Us, News, Research
After more than three decades of service, Alan Desbonnet, Assistant Director of Rhode Island Sea Grant, is retiring, marking the close of an extraordinary career dedicated to coastal science and public service. Alan joined Rhode Island Sea Grant in 1989 as an...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Dec 3, 2025 | News, Research, Sustainable Seafood
Over 1,000 tons of microplastics have accumulated in the top five centimeters of the seafloor in Narragansett Bay. This puts seabed-dwelling organisms—and the predators that rely on them—at growing risk of exposure. With support from Rhode Island Sea Grant, University...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Nov 30, 2025 | Coastal State, News, Research
New URI research offers a clearer picture of how pollution travels through the estuary. Microplastics are everywhere in coastal waters—from tiny fibers shed by clothing to fragments of degraded packaging. But their abundance isn’t uniform across a place as dynamic as...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Oct 16, 2025 | Coastal Communities, News, Research
Microplastics have become a defining pollutant of our time—now detected from polar ice cores to human bloodstreams. These microscopic fragments, fibers, and beads—smaller than five millimeters and often invisible to the naked eye—form as common plastics break down...
