by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Sep 10, 2020 | News, Research, Students, Sustainable Seafood, Uncategorized
Courtesy of URI TodayBy Todd McLeish KINGSTON, R.I. – August 25, 2020 – Dressed in bright orange jumpsuits and matching masks, University of Rhode Island students Cara Megill and Jacqui Roush stood at Conimicut Point in Warwick and flipped a switch to begin pumping...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Jun 10, 2020 | News, Research, Students, Sustainable Seafood, Uncategorized
Courtesty of American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America If you need to clean up a waterway, plant an oyster farm. Oysters have been shown to improve water quality by removing nitrogen and other nutrients that in...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Sep 5, 2019 | News, Research
A recent study by Sea Grant-funded researchers from Boston University supports the notion that oyster reef restoration and aquaculture efforts may be an important method for removing nutrients that can over-fertilize coastal waters. The study, published in the July...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Jul 15, 2019 | News, Research
Sea Grant funded-researcher, Wally Fulweiler, features her work in National Geographic’s Open Explorer – a digital storytelling platform that allows university researchers, citizen scientists, students, and professional explorers to share their fieldwork...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | May 8, 2019 | Coastal Communities, News, ocean planning, Research
Social scientists report their research results at Coastal State Discussion “Dreamy,” “awe-inspiring,” and “majestic” are just some of the words recreational anglers and other Block Island-based tourists and residents used to describe the Block Island Wind Farm in...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | May 8, 2019 | Coastal Communities, Events, Research, Uncategorized
One single oyster can filter about 50 gallons of water per day. This kind of filtering power is being looked at by researchers as a potential solution to absorb harmful amounts of nitrogen entering coastal waters via wastewater treatment facilities and stormwater...
