Research

Facilities, Research Centers And Faculty Resources

We are committed to empowering our academic community by providing the foundational infrastructure required for groundbreaking discovery and teaching excellence. This portal connects educators, researchers, and students to our state-of-the-art campus facilities, specialized interdisciplinary research centers, and comprehensive faculty support toolkits. Whether you are launching a new research initiative, optimizing your classroom technology, or seeking professional development, you will find the spaces, funding, and administrative tools needed to drive innovation forward.

Faculty Resources

We actively support our academic community by providing the essential tools, funding, and technical networks needed to advance scientific discovery.

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Specialized Infrastructure

Technical Support

Coastal and ocean research

Coastal Institute

Partnering with local, state, federal, and international agencies, to synthesize knowledge, foster discussion, and advance solutions to complex problems surrounding human use and development in coastal environments.

Marine Affairs Coastal Resilience

Our students and postdocs develop new tools that policymakers, and the public need in order to effectively weigh the costs and benefits of resilience investments that will be necessary in the coming decades.

Marine Science Research Facility

State-of-the-art laboratories located at the Narragansett Bay Campus for rearing and maintaining a variety of marine organisms and performing chemical, physical, and molecular analysis of samples.

Offshore renewable energy

URI has brought together world-class experts from a variety of disciplines to better understand the sustained impacts of renewable energy siting, construction, and implementation.

Rhode Island Marine Fisheries Institute

A partnership with the Department of Environmental Management to increase the understanding, sustainable management, and conservation of state marine fisheries resources through research and training.

Rhode Island Sea Grant

One of 34 programs in the National Sea Grant College Program, the Rhode Island Sea Grant works with coastal communities in the Ocean State to ensure access to the best available science to build long-term, sustainable solutions.

Sustainability and outreach

Biological Control Lab

The management of a pest, typically an invasive species, by introducing a natural predator into the environment.

Coastal and Environmental Fellows Program

Enabling URI undergraduate students to participate in environmental research, education, or public outreach

Environmental Data Center

Applying state of the art technologies for collecting, storing, managing, analyzing, displaying and distributing geospatial data

Policy Simulation Laboratory

Using digital imagery and virtual reality to create interactive visualization tools that depict the consequences of policy changes.

Sustainable Design Studio

Landscape Architecture students work with local communities to produce conceptual designs and visualizations to improve sites for parks, campuses, streets and village centers.

Tick Research Lab

TickEncounter promotes tick-bite protection and tickborne disease prevention by engaging, educating, and empowering people to take action.

Water Quality Program

Research-based education and training programs helping Rhode Islanders protect their water resources and health.

Agriculture and food production

Agricultural Experiment Station

East Farm, Peckham Farm, and the Gardner Agronomy Farm, located right on campus, are integrated with our extension sites and research.

Nutrition and Food Science Research Center

Food and seafood pilot plants with supporting analytical and biomaterial testing labs, flavor and lipid biochemistry lab, food quality lab, and biohazard labs, and instrument lab.

Plant Biotechnology Laboratory

Focussed on agricultural biotechnology, researchers work on plant transformation and transgenic biology with multiple species.

Soil Ecology and Microbiology

Seeking to address problems in the areas of wastewater treatment, soil quality, crop production, and ecosystem restoration, by understanding microorganisms and microbial communities.

College of the Environment and Life Sciences