Courtesy of the Westerly Sun By Dale P. Faulkner WESTERLY — More than 100 people gathered Monday at Lanphear Livery in Watch Hill to listen to two experts discuss the impact of sea level rise and storm surge on the region and steps the state is taking to help prospective builders protect their investments. The
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Everyone, it seems, agrees that Rhode Island-grown oysters are among the best to be had at raw bars and restaurants across the state and beyond. As Jean Lambert, engineering/GIS coordinator with the town of Jamestown, said to participants at a tour of an island shellfish farm, “We all enjoy the oysters—they’re amazing.” Lambert told the
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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 Fulweiler and her team have focused on Narragansett Bay to study how our coastal ocean breathes to understand how these ecosystems filter nutrients,
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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 wonder exactly what that means. The popularity of organic foods continues
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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 at the 2019 Rhode Island Seafood Cook-off were the sliders
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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 research on the wind farm’s impact on recreation and tourism. Three social scientists leading the studies parsed
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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 runoff from urban areas. “We need nitrogen, so let’s not demonize it, it’s
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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 macaque clinging to its mother at the local watering hole in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia, where Palasciano
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High school culinary students to compete in 2019 Rhode Island Seafood Cookoff featuring gray sole Warwick Area Career & Technical Center to host cookoff for five schools; public is invited WARWICK, R.I.—Local high school culinary student teams will be competing in the 2019 Rhode Island Seafood Cookoff, hosted by the Warwick Area Career & Technical
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More than half of the population of the continental United States resides in coastal communities, which are increasingly home to commercial shellfish aquaculture operations. Consequently, a variety of user conflicts can arise as states seek to encourage the development or expansion of shellfish aquaculture. Each of these conflicts creates the potential for opposition and legal
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