by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Sep 19, 2025 | Coastal Communities, News
Aerial view of the Charlestown Breachway. Photo courtesy of the town of Charlestown. Following the damage to the Charlestown Breachway in late 2023 and early 2024 and the emergency repairs done, Charlestown is preparing for the permanent restoration. The town of...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Sep 18, 2025 | Coastal Communities, News
URI Research and Outreach Team Seeks Community Input on Priorities, Concerns Rhode Island is one of the most low-lying states in the U.S., and the town of Warren is among its most flood-vulnerable municipalities. A research and outreach team from the University of...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Sep 10, 2025 | News, Research
When we think about life on Earth, we might picture scenes from a BBC Planet Earth special—vast rainforests, grasslands, or blue oceans. Yet a new study reveals how the “in-between” spaces—lakes, rivers, wetlands, estuaries, and continental shelves—are...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Aug 21, 2025 | Coastal Communities, News
Walking tour highlights preservation efforts, development pressure in Warwick coastal community Janet Freedman leads a walking tour of Conimicut Point. Located on a narrow peninsula on the west side of Narragansett Bay, Warwick’s Conimicut Point is shrinking. Evidence...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Jul 28, 2025 | Coastal Communities, Marine Law, News, Students
As a grain of sand is washed from the public beach to private property, and from there to the public road or salt pond behind it, does the ownership of that sand change? The question of how ownership in tidal areas changes–or doesn’t–as geological...
