What are the rates, mechanisms, impacts, and geographic variability of sea level change?
—National Academies of Science, a 2015 report.
Significant sea level change by region can be traced back to uneven rates of ocean warming, the net transport of seawater in currents, regional tectonics, isostatic adjustments, shoreline subsidence, and regional gravitational anomalies. Understanding the nature of change behind global and regional variability on all scales, and projecting future changes in sea level, will continue to be an interdisciplinary challenge.
Active Projects
- Understanding Gulf Ocean Systems, Topic 2, Pressure and Current Meters
- Climate Change Impacts on Northeaster Vulnerability for Four New England Parks
- An Integrated Observational and Modeling Approach to Estimation of the Groundwater Contribution to the Water and Nutrient Budgets in Coastal Environments: Case Studies from Narragansett Bay and Southern RI Coastal Lagoons
- Surface Wave Impacts on Upper Ocean Response to Tropical Cyclones
- The Importance of Shelf Break Upwelling to Upper Trophic Level Ecology in the Western Beaufort Sea
- How to trace glacial meltwater in the ocean by shipboard hydrographic analysis of dissolved neon and krypton
Principal Investigators | Sea Level
Emeritus Professor of Oceanography
401.874.6182
jwking@uri.edu
Associate Professor of Oceanography
401.874.6676
bloose@uri.edu
Notably…
Future hurricane could loop around and make landfall twice in the U.S.
URI Study Assessing Groundwater Impact on Salt Ponds- URI’s Pam Rubinoff, coastal management expert, to speak at Newport conference on sea level rise, April 11-13
