Tag: Jeremy Collie

URI oceanographer co-authors study on damages to seabed from different trawling methods

About a third of the world’s fish is caught using bottom trawling, a method that drags a net along the seabed, scooping up everything in its path. The ecological damage can be devastating. Many marine creatures—sea turtles, corals and anemones—are accidentally caught, and often die. As it scours the bottom, the trawl can also destroy […]

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2015 temperatures in Narragansett Bay reflect climate change trends

If you have any doubt that climate change is affecting our planet, consider the research of Jeremy Collie, an oceanographer at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography. Collie says that temperatures in Narragansett Bay hit record highs and lows in 2015, which he calls the “most extreme’’ fluctuations observed since GSO started […]

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