by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Oct 22, 2018 | News, Research
Anchored boats and buoys slowly emerge from and vanish back into the fog that lays thick across the water’s surface in the early morning hours as we slowly motor out of Wickford Harbor. It’s the beginning of May and I’m with GSO researchers Lucie Maranda, Dave Ullman,...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Aug 7, 2018 | News, Uncategorized
A slide showing two different sets of eelgrass plants glowed on the screen. The set on the left seemed stunted and short. The set on the right had willowy, long shoots. If you knew nothing about eelgrass, you might conclude that the plants on the right were the...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Aug 1, 2018 | Events, News
Inspired by presentations and conversations generated at the Rhode Island Sea Grant Baird Science Symposium, Rhode Island PBS will be hosting a panel to further discuss changes in Narragansett Bay. Fishermen complain that bureaucrats have over-treated Narragansett Bay...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Jun 28, 2018 | News, Uncategorized
Climate Change or Clean Water? In the talks at the 2017 Ronald C. Baird Sea Grant Science Symposium, two causes vied for recognition as the primary driver of changes to sea life—reductions in effluent discharges from wastewater treatment plants and climate change....
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Jun 25, 2018 | News, Sustainable Seafood, Uncategorized
Narragansett Bay today is not what it once was 100, or even 10, years ago. Coastal development and growing populations over time have meant changes to the bay’s geography and a greater influx of nutrients, such as nitrogen, as well as metals and other toxins. These...
