On a field trip to the Port of Davisville, URI students saw the economics they study in class at work, from new cars and old trucks to offshore wind.
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URI fisheries expert selected as Fulbright Scholar to study Portugal’s sardine and anchovy population
Professor Austin Humphries heads to Lisbon as a Fulbright Scholar to forecast how warming oceans will affect Portugal’s sardine and anchovy populations.
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URI student Kyle Jolicoeur is helping Rhode Island farmers cut their energy costs as an Energy Fellow through URI Cooperative Extension.
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Rhode Island Sea Grant offering free screening of student film about climate change in Warren, Rhode Island.
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Travis Bayer’s use of technology trackers offers new insight into the flights of Central American bats.
Continue reading "URI zoologist’s study of wild Panamanian bats highlights use of metrics to inform bat conservation"URI to join State Department grant to help feed the future in fisheries
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.
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