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Event at URI\u2019s Narragansett Bay Campus focused on fisheries and benthic monitoring for offshore development<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

November 20, 2025<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The University of Rhode Island and Rhode Island Sea Grant<\/a> recently hosted the Marine Technology Society\u2019s annual TechSurge conference. The three-day event convened approximately 120 attendees from around the world at URI\u2019s Graduate School of Oceanography<\/a> on the Narragansett Bay Campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are seeing significant investment in URI, and particularly on the Bay Campus, towards enhancing ocean technology and building its capable workforce,\u201d said URI President Marc Parlange, as he welcomed attendees to the conference. \u201cThis event is certainly an exciting indicator that our collaborative efforts are working, and we are right on track.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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The conference included several panel discussions. From left, Christopher Roman, professor of ocean engineering and oceanography at URI; William Misa, fisheries ecologist at TetraTech; Cameron Thompson, pelagic ecologist at Northeastern Regional Association of Coastal Ocean Observing Systems; URI alumnus Nicholas Chaloux, an engineer at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; and URI alumna Emily Shumchenia, ocean data scientist for the Northeast Regional Ocean Council.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The conference, which focused on fisheries and benthic monitoring for offshore development, featured lectures, workshops, networking events, and a \u201cTech Cafe\u201d for fostering industry and student connections. Tours of the Narragansett Bay Campus and highlighted ocean technology laboratories and startup businesses that partner with URI. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graduate School of Oceanography Interim Dean Steven D\u2019Hondt<\/a> reminded attendees that URI and Rhode Island Sea Grant played a lead role in marshalling the science that ultimately resulted in the country\u2019s first offshore wind farm, the Block Island Wind Farm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rhode Island Sea Grant partnered with Marine Technology Society to bring the conference to URI and sponsored it as the 20th Ronald C. Baird Sea Grant Science Symposium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Marine Technology Society has a New England chapter for industry experts and researchers and a student chapter at URI for any student interested in developing skills and connections that will lead to a career in the marine technology or ocean engineering space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRhode Island Sea Grant, as with other Sea Grant programs, is committed to ensuring that the best science informs how coastal communities and states make decisions about marine and ocean resources that are part of our daily life,\u201d said Rhode Island Sea Grant Director Tracey Dalton<\/a>, a professor in the URI\u2019s Department of Marine Affairs. \u201cAs advances in ocean technology can help us improve how people access, for example, food and jobs tied to marine environments, this event served as a perfect platform for this year\u2019s Baird Symposium.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rhode Island Sea Grant is one of 34 programs in the National Sea Grant College Program<\/a> working to enhance environmental stewardship and long-term economic development and responsible use of coastal and marine resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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