by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Oct 30, 2020 | News, Students
Qualified individuals are invited to submit applications to the Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship national competition. Selected finalists spend one year in the Washington, D.C., area working in a Legislative or Executive office on critical marine policy...
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 | May 30, 2019 | Marine Law, News, Students, Sustainable Seafood
Sea Grant Law Fellow research uncovers complex issues, risks for would-be organic seafood growers If you prefer to buy organic food whenever possible, you may wonder why you don’t see “organic” farmed seafood in grocery stores or fish markets—and if you do, you may...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Aug 20, 2016 | News, Students, Uncategorized
Knauss Fellow reflects on path from seafood trader to policy aide to lawyer Nicholas Obolensky, part of the Knauss Fellows class of 2013, had always wanted to fight for the greater good. “I have always been interested in fighting for social and environmental justice...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Nov 14, 2014 | Capstone, Coastal Communities, Students
Students enrolled in the University of Rhode Island (URI) Landscape Architecture program were tasked at finding innovative coastal adaptation strategies as part of their senior studio for Newport’s Storer Park, which sits as a southern gateway to the city’s historic...
