Media Mentions
April 19, 2021
Providence Journal
Narragansett Bay is changing forever. Here’s why one fish is never coming back.
June 26, 2017
The Westerly Sun
Warmer ocean brings changes to R.I., wreaks havoc on state’s ecosystem
June 21, 2017
Providence Journal
Warming of Bay subject of URI series
July 20, 2017
Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
A Visit Aboard the Cap’n Bert at URI GSO
February 7, 2016
Providence Journal
Hot and cold Bay means trouble below
November 6-7, 2014
Narragansett Times
What lies beneath: URI surveys area waters
Summer 2011
Quadangles Magazine
Trawling for Deeper Understanding, 50+ Years of Fisheries Data Provide Global Insights
June 23, 2011
South County Independent
Schooled in Oceans
June 16, 2011
Jamestown Press
URI Professor leads students on fish trawl in Narragansett Bay
October 26, 2009
The Providence Journal
Watching the changes in Narragansett Bay for half a century
October 25, 2009
The Providence Sunday Journal
Trawl nets fisheries data
June 30, 2008
National Geographic News
Squid, lobster numbers rise as fish fall due to warming
June 27, 2008
University of Rhode Island
Climate change causing significant shift in the species composition of coastal fish communities; fishing also a factor
November 13, 2007
Boston Globe
Rising temperatures throw nature a curve
September 27, 2007
WRNI radio
Global warming changing fish populations
July 6, 2000
South County Independent
Horseshoe Crab Regulations
January 23, 1998
Narragansett Times
Aboard a floating classroom
August 15, 1996
Newport Daily News
Bay Watch
Publications
Langan, J. A., Puggioni, G., Oviatt, C., Henderson, M. E., & Collie, J. S. (2021). Climate alters the migration phenology of coastal marine species. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 660, 1-18.
Bockus, A.B., C.L. Labreck, J.L. Camberg, J.S. Collie & B.A. Seibel. 2020. Thermal range and physiological tolerance mechanisms in two shark species form the northwest Atlantic. Biological Bulletin 238: 131-144, doi: 10.1086/708718
Innes-Gold, A., Heinichen, M., Gorospe, K., Truesdale, C. L., Collie, J. S., & Humphries, A. T. (2020). Modeling 25 years of food web changes in Narragansett Bay (US) as a tool for ecosystem-based management. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 654, 11-33.
Langan, J. A., McManus, M. C., Zemeckis, D. R., & Collie, J. S. (2020). Abundance and distribution of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) in a warming southern New England. Fishery Bulletin, 118(2), 145-159. doi:10.7755/FB.118.2.4
Langan, J.A., M.C. McManus, A.J. Schonfeld, C.L. Truesdale, and J.S. Collie. 2019. Evaluating summer flounder spatial sex-segregation in a southern New England estuary. Marine and Coastal Fisheries: Dynamics, Management, and Ecosystem Science11:76-85.
Fulweiler RW, Oczkowski AJ, Miller KM, Oviatt CA, Pilson MEQ (2015) Whole truths vs. half truths – And a search for clarity in long-term water temperature records. Estuar Coast Shelf Sci 157: A1–A6.
Branch, T.A., Watson, R., Fulton, E.A., McGilliard, C.R., Pablico, G.T., Ricard, D., Tracey, S.R. (2010). The trophic fingerprint of marine fisheries. Nature, 468, 431-435. et al. 2010.
Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, Division of Fish and Wildlife. June, 2008.
Worm, B., Hilborn, R., Baum, J.K., Branch, T.A., Collie, J.S., Costello, C., Fogarty, M.J., Fulton, E.A., Hutchings, J.A., Jennings, S., Jenkins, O.P., Lotze, H.K., Mace, P.M., McClanahan, T.R., Minto, C., Palumbi, S.R., Parma, A.M., Ricard, D., Rosenberg, A.A., Watson, R., Zeller, D. 2009. Rebuilding Global Fisheries. Science 325: 578-585.
Collie, J.S., A.D. Wood, and H.P. Jeffries. 2008. Long-term shifts in the species composition of a coastal fish community. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 65: 1352-1365.
Gibson, M. 2008. Lobster settlement and abundance in Rhode Island: an evaluation of methoprene application and other factors potentially influencing early survival.
Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, Division of Fish and Wildlife. June, 2008.
Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission. 2006. Tautog stock assessment for peer review. Stock assessment report No. 06-02 (supplement). January, 2006. Available online at http://www.asmfc.org
Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission. 2005. American lobster stock assessment for peer review. Stock assessment report No. 06-03 (supplement). August, 2005. Available online at http://www.asmfc.org
Oviatt, C.A. 2004. The changing ecology of temperate coastal waters during a warming trend. Estuaries 27: 895-904.
Oviatt, C., S. Olsen, M. Andrews, J. Collie, T. Lynn, and K. Raposa. 2003. A century of fishing and fish fluctuations in Narragansett Bay. Reviews in Fisheries Science 11: 1-22.
Jeffries, H.P. 2000. Rhode Island’s ever-changing Narragansett Bay. Maritimes 42(4): 3-6.
Taylor, D.L., and J.S. Collie. 2000. Sampling the bay over the long term. Maritimes 42(4): 7-9.
Jeffries, H.P., and M. Terceiro. 1985. Cycle of changing abundances in the fishes of the Narragansett Bay area. Marine Ecology Progress Series 25: 239-244.
Jeffries, H.P., and W.C. Johnson. 1974. Seasonal distributions in the bottom fishes of the Narragansett Bay area: seven-year variations in the abundances of winter flounder (Pseudopleuronectes americanus). Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada 31: 1057-1066.
Links
State Of Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (www.dem.ri.gov)
National Marine Fisheries Service Northeast Fisheries Science Center Narragansett Laboratory (https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/about/narragansett-laboratory)
Narragansett Bay.Org (www.narrbay.org)
Narragansett Bay Water Quality Monitoring Network (www.narrbay.org/d_projects/buoy/buoydata.htm)
University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography Narragansett Bay Plankton Monitoring
(web.uri.edu/gso/research/plankton)
University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography Marine Ecosystems Research Laboratory (https://web.uri.edu/gso/research/marine-ecosystems-research-laboratory/)
Narragansett Bay Estuary Program (www.nbep.org)
Rhode Island Marine Fisheries Institute (https://web.uri.edu/rimfi/long-term-monitoring/)