by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Oct 9, 2024 | Coastal Communities, News, Students
Rhode Island Sea Grant (RISG) is thrilled to announce the availability of three graduate fellowship positions as part of our 2025 Community Engagement and Communications Fellowship Program. This initiative aims to support and train the next generation of coastal...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | May 1, 2024 | Coastal Communities, Marine Law, News, Uncategorized
Recent legal research examines the various compensation programs offered by offshore wind developers to communities in southern New England. As offshore wind farms are developed along the East Coast and even more are proposed, communities may want to understand the...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Feb 10, 2023 | Coastal Communities, News, ocean planning
The prospect of an offshore wind cable running from a wind farm in federal waters up the Sakonnet and connecting to the grid through the town of Portsmouth has raised community questions and concerns over the impacts from cable installation on fish and the surrounding...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Jun 26, 2020 | News, ocean planning
Offshore turbines and other renewable energy structures can have beneficial impacts on seafloor habitats and fish communities, said researchers from Belgium and the U.K. at a recent webinar on lessons learned from offshore renewable energy. The European scientists,...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Jun 9, 2020 | News, ocean planning
Planners, members of the fishing industry, and developers share what went well with Block Island Wind Farm—and what could have gone better—to aid future development Wind farm photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons by Ionna22 Planning for the nation’s first...