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Webinar Features Narragansett Coastal Access Efforts
The Narragansett Town Council, in 2021, allowed parking at three CRMC shoreline rights-of-way in Point Judith, and established the Coastal Access...
Coastal Resilience Overlays for Bristol County
Coastal resilience overlays may be a useful tool in helping communities become more resilient.
Capstone Experience Connects URI Students, Coastal Communities
URI students from a variety of disciplines come together to propose solutions for improving coastal resilience in real-world situations.
Municipal Parking and Public Shoreline Access
Availability of parking near public rights-of-way to the shoreline is key to allowing meaningful access, but it’s also controversial.
Researchers Look at Direct Sales of Lobster
Research seeks to understand how–and if–direct sales helped local lobstermen in the COVID-19 pandemic. Two social scientists talked about their process in a recent webinar.
Webinar series: Climate Change Effects on Recreational Fishing and Boating
Climate Change Effects on Recreational Fishing and Boating: Opportunities and Actions is a two-part webinar series that engaged Northeast...
Rhode Island Sea Grant Invests Over $2 million in Research on Harmful Algal Blooms, Rust Tides, and Multi-use of Marine Resources
Sea Grant-funded research to address environmental conditions that trigger blooms and rust tides, and multiple-use challenges of marine resources in Rhode Island.
Rhode Island Sea Grant Sends 2 URI Graduates to Washington, D.C,. for National Knauss Marine Policy Fellowships
Rhode Island Sea Grant Knauss Marine Policy Fellows join 68 other fellows from across the country in Washington, D.C., to work on coastal and marine policy issues within the legislative and executive offices of the federal government for one year.
We’re Hiring!
Rhode Island Sea Grant is seeking a Workforce Development and Research Program Coordinator (Marine Research Specialist IV) to manage the Rhode...
In the Media
Eating oysters is good for the environment, according to a pair of Narragansett Bay-centric experts. Scientists Robinson Fulweiler of Boston University and Christopher Kincaid from the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography shared their latest findings during a recent webinar. Read more >>
A two-part webinar series that will engage northeast recreational anglers, boaters, and climate experts. They will discuss how climate change is affecting traditional uses — both good and bad. Read more >>
What portion of the shoreline is open to everybody, and what portion is private property? Dennis Nixon, professor emeritus of marine affairs at the University of Rhode Island, characterized the goal as “restoring what was taken from the public” in 1982, when the Rhode Island Supreme Court sided with a homeowner who claimed that his property extended to the mean high tide line. Read more >>
Recent research has found access to Rhode Island’s shoreline and the amenities it offers differs between demographic groups. Rhode Island Sea Grant hosted a webinar on June 30 webinar in partnership. with Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC) and focused on shoreline access as an environmental-justice issue. Read more >>
Scientists at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography are learning more about a microscopic organism that, despite its tiny size, can have a major impact, closing shellfisheries and making people sick. Read more >>
House approves bill to study shoreline access
The resolution (2021-H 5469A) creates a 12-member special legislative commission to study and provide recommendations on the issues relating to lateral access along the Rhode Island shoreline, with a goal of reporting back to the General Assembly next spring. Read more >>
Over 130 people participated in the webinar. The “Learning As We Go” session addressed “Effects on the Food Web” and featured two guest speakers who have studied offshore wind farms in Europe for a number of years. Read more >>
How RI’s Shellfish Industry is Innovating During Coronavirus
Turning the wind’s kinetic energy into electrical power is gaining popularity, so much so that 2,000 offshore wind turbines could be erected off the East Coast in the next 10 years. Read more >>
The term “blue economy” has been popping up in headlines and economic outlines with increasing frequency during the past 10 years. Read more >>
Events
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June
Coastal Access in Narragansett
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19-21
July
National Working Waterfront Network Conference
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