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• Computer simulations show strong ocean currents reduce size of surface waves - URI researchers determine how much hurricane-driven ocean currents modify surface waves and why it happens
• The Explorers Club honors URI’s Kenna Rubin - Each year, the EC50 recognizes fifty extraordinary people advancing science, exploration, and conservation across the globe.
• Functional forecasting: URI team uses Homeland Security exercises to evaluate storm decision support tool as part of Katrina lookback issue - URI’s CHAMP tool and expertise highlighted in series, “20 years after Hurricane Katrina: Lessons learned and implemented in flood risk management”
• URI study identifies long-term source of PFAS contamination to Pawcatuck River - Provides foundation for decision-making around remediation for sites previously identified by researchers as PFAS ‘hotspots’

Media Coverage

• Rhode Island Sea Grant’s Aquaculture Business Course Covers Industry from ‘Soup to Nuts’ - December 4, 2025 - ecoRI News
• North Allegheny graduate travels to Hawaii as part of effort to better predict severity, timing of volcanic eruptions - December 4, 2025 - TribLive
• URI taps geothermal energy for climate control for new Bay Campus labs - December 4, 2025 - The Providence Journal
• URI Researchers Find Smaller Amounts of Microplastics in Southern Narragansett Bay - November 24, 2025 - ecoRI News
• EPA Proposing New Pesticide on Crops Raises Alarm - November 14, 2025 - Newsweek

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