by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Sep 17, 2020 | News, Uncategorized
Extreme high tides are coming to coastal Rhode Island, and planners need your photos. As sea level rises, some of Rhode Island’s low-lying coastal areas increasingly flood during higher-than-normal high tides. Capturing photos of those flooded areas can help...
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 29, 2019 | News, Sustainable Seafood, Uncategorized
The teams arrived at the Warwick Career and Technical Center from around Rhode Island, chopping and searing, sauteing and frying, and turning out grey sole dishes from fish tacos to sliders, to the fancier grey sole with chermoula sauce. In the end, the winning recipe...
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...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | May 1, 2019 | News, Research, Uncategorized
Matthew Palasciano, a geological oceanography undergraduate student, took first place in the Research & Scholarship Photo Contest co-sponsored by Rhode Island Sea Grant and the University of Rhode Island for “The Endless Bond Between Mother and Child,” a young...
