Rhode Island Sea Grant offering free screening of student film about climate change in Warren, Rhode Island.
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URI zoologist’s study of wild Panamanian bats highlights use of metrics to inform bat conservation
Travis Bayer’s use of technology trackers offers new insight into the flights of Central American bats.
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Fisheries professor joined by Coastal Institute researcher looking at how to curb illegal, unregulated, and unreported fishing worldwide
Continue reading "URI to join State Department grant to help feed the future in fisheries"Watching Rhode Island’s Wildlife
Motion-activated trail cameras at two Rhode Island locations are helping graduate student Madalyn Stoltz and URI contribute to the Smithsonian’s Snapshot USA, a national effort to track how wildlife communities change over time.
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Experiential learning opportunities abound for students willing to make the first step
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Marine affairs professor and social anthropologist Yoshitaka Ota says the ocean is not a zero-sum game. The world’s oceans can provide for all—if we use them wisely and fairly.
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URI community members reflect on the plant sciences professor whose care for the people she taught reached well past the greenhouse.
Continue reading "“She loved plants”: Remembering Bridget Ruemmele"Climate Change Communication at the RI Department of Environmental Management: Q&A with Cailey Mingolla
As a double major in environmental science and management and political science, University of Rhode Island student Cailey Mingolla sought out an experiential learning opportunity that related to both her areas of study. She found it in the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management’s Director’s Office, where she was placed as a Senior Extension Fellow through URI Cooperative Extension’s Environmental Fellows Program.
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University of Rhode Island master’s student Owen Fleischer is using accelerometers to answer a question with no known answer: what do sharks actually do all day?
Continue reading "The Secret Life of Sharks"The fear factor: How blue crab fishing could reshape a salt marsh
URI graduate student Maja Nielsen’s novel research examines how fishing-driven shifts in blue crab populations are changing the way ribbed mussels respond to predators — with consequences that could ripple through new England salt marsh ecosystems.
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