by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Oct 12, 2018 | News
One of the biggest challenges facing a governor when a dangerous hurricane is barrelling towards their state is to convince people to evacuate. This happened in North Carolina last month as the state grappled with Hurricane Florence. Flooding threatened resident Dawn...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Jul 10, 2018 | News, Uncategorized
Have you ever tried to turn the lights on only to learn the switch was connected to something else entirely? The same can be true for the environment where flipping on or off one switch (e.g. changing atmospheric chemistry) can turn others on or off as well (e.g....
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Nov 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
Sometimes to move forward you have to go back – sometimes as far as hundreds of thousands or millions of years. This is the case for scientists looking to reconstruct the past in order to better understand climatic changes happening today and what may be expected in...