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Happy #NationalLobsterDay While you can still pi

Happy #NationalLobsterDay

While you can still pick up fresh lobster in Rhode Island, the industry for southern New England has been hit hard by warming ocean temperatures with severe population decreases in Narragansett Bay and are now predominantly in the Gulf of Maine and cooler offshore waters.

“I used to target strictly lobsters for decades,” said Al Eagles, a Newport-based lobsterman. “Now, I’m branching out and doing crabs and finfishing.”

Lobstermen, like Eagles, are now part of an American Lobster Initiative through a regional Sea Grant effort to better study and understand the ever evolving environmental conditions to improve both regional and local management. (More information on the American Lobster Initiative via @maineseagrant @university.of.maine )

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1.) Al Eagles, Newport lobsterman. credit @dvine9
2.) Galilee direct lobster sales. credit @universa1
3.) Galilee lobster boats. Credit @monicaallardcox

Find more information about changes in Rhode Island fishing at 41nmagazine.org

#newenglandlobster #seafoodiesne #riseafood #americanlobsterinitiative #lobster #climatechange #migratingnorth

Extreme high tides, “King Tides,” are coming t

Extreme high tides, “King Tides,” are coming to Rhode Island for the rest of the year and we’re looking for your photos of flooded coastal areas.
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Capturing these photos helps local and state planners identify places where resilience efforts are needed.
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The next King Tides are Sept. 19 at 9:50am & Sept.20 at 10:41 am
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Photos can be uploaded to the MyCoast App or visit Mycoast.org/RI
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#kingtides #mycoastri #coastalresilience #rhodeisland #coastalliving #lilrhody

While many of us on the East Coast are picking up

While many of us on the East Coast are picking up the pieces and preparing for the next storm, wildfires rage across the West Coast with more than 3.4 million acres burned so far according to the National Interagency Fire Center.
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Our thoughts are with the communities and our colleagues @oregon_seagrant @caseagrant @waseagrant
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@caseagrant and @russianriversalmon have worked together to provide a way to stay up-to-date on local weather and fire information. Find the link @russianriversalmon
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Photo courtesy of @bbcnews
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#staysafe #wildfires #beprepared

Hurricane Laura made landfall as a category 4 stor

Hurricane Laura made landfall as a category 4 storm, one of the strongest systems to hit Louisiana and the 10th storm of the season. Some forecasters @noaaclimate are calling for an increased chance of a La Niña this fall, which could enhance an already active hurricane season.
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Our thoughts are with the communities and our colleagues in @laseagrant @texasseagrant @msalseagrant @floridaseagrant
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For more formation on hurricane preparedness especially during this pandemic, visit @noaa @nws
➡️Weather Ready Nation ➡️ National Hurricane Preparedness
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#staysafe #hurricanepreparedness #weatherreadynation

In Richard King’s “Ahab’s Rolling Sea,” he

In Richard King’s “Ahab’s Rolling Sea,” he explores the natural history of Herman Melville’s classic Moby-Dick and what was actually known about the ocean in the mid-1800s.
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King also explores the evolution of our knowledge and relationship with the ocean, and how Moby-Dick’s main character, Ishmael, represents a culture soon to be a stateless republic.
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“I thought about Ishmael as a symbol of today’s climate refugee...the biblical orphan, representing a victim and a witness to events he had no power to stop.”
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King specifically refers to the Pacific Island Kiribati where people are planning to leave their Island due to sea level rise and pollution of groundwater.
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“For the first time in recorded human history, an entire culture will be a stateless republic of climate refugees.”
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41nmagazine.org
Call Me Climate Refugee
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#41nmagazine #climatechange #climaterefugee #mobydick

“We stand now where two roads diverge.” - an i

“We stand now where two roads diverge.” - an imprinted passage from Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” on the face of a 21-ft tall wooden pillar that is one of several in an art installation in the Touisset Marsh Wildlife Refuge in Warren.

Others have passages from prominent environmental writers such as Aldo Leopoldo and John Muir encoded as Morse code in the holes and dashed lines carved into the wood, which also serves as a home for bees while the curious red dowels that mark an end of a sentence serve as perches for birds. Steel markers show where sea levels will be at this site in years to come.
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“It’s really about helping people look at the landscape more carefully,” said Leonard Yui, an assistant professor of architecture @myrwu and architect behind the installation he calls “Ecological Piers.”
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This installation, he says, is meant to communicate environmental ideas, bring people closer to the environment, and educate about the impacts of climate change.
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“Let’s have people understand the site first. What’s the ecology currently, what do you enjoy about this site, and then overlay one aspect of how sea level rise might affect this space.”
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41nmagazine.com
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Photos @danasmith17
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#touissetwildliferefuge #natureappreciation #climatechange #sealevelrise #landscapearchitecture #artandscience #artandnature #audubon #41nmagazine

Our new website is up! It’s still very much a wo

Our new website is up! It’s still very much a work in progress, but we hope it provides useful information and that it’s easy to navigate. We appreciate your patience while we continue to fine-tune :)
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#forallofus #rhodeisland #scienceforall #scienceforehodeisland ⚓️❤️

In honor of #NationalOysterDay, we wanted to talk $In honor of #NationalOysterDay, we wanted to talk about greenhouse gas emissions... . If Americans replaced just 10% of our meat consumption with oysters, it’d be like removing almost 11 million cars from the road from greenhouse gas savings. . Researchers @fulweilerlab @bostonu found this to be the case when comparing land-based meat production with oysters cultivation. The latter of which requires a fraction of the space and resources to grow. . Find the full story, “New study shows how eating more oysters could reduce greenhouse gas emissions” on our website. . #nationaloysterday #oysters #seafoodiesne #climate #greenhousegasemissions #carbonfootprint #localseafood$

Sea Grant-funded researchers and students sampling

Sea Grant-funded researchers and students sampling for micro-plastics for a new project looking at how micro-plastics may serve as vectors for pollutants and marine disease.
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Students pumped water through a custom filtration system in order to capture particles down to 10 micron in size.
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“This is part of our Sea Grant monitoring project, and next week they will sample a gradient from the north to the south of the Bay,” said Andrew Davies, lead researcher of the project and visiting associate professor @universityofri
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#microplastics #oceanhealth #science #SeaGrantfunded #narragansettbay #shellfish

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