State & National Media
2026
- Quoted in Grist, “To Keep Climate Science Alive, Researchers Are Speaking in Code.” March 27, 2026.
- Featured interview with the Global & National Security Institute, “Port Resilience Crisis: Can Ports Keep Up with Extreme Weather?” January 13, 2026.
- Interviewed on Ocean State Media (Rhode Island’s NPR station) on coastal hazard tools in Rhode Island. January 5, 2026.
2025
- Profiled in the New York Times, “Lost Science: He Helped Cities Anticipate Damage From Storms.” November 13, 2025.
- Featured on Rhode Island Sea Grant, “Sea Grant’s Vital Role in Advancing Rhode Island’s Coastal Hazard Resilience.” August 18, 2025.
- The Boston Globe, “Inside the URI Tools Keeping Rhode Island Ahead of the Next Big Storm.” August 11, 2025.
- Interviewed for NPR’s All Things Considered, “Canceled Grants Get the Spotlight at a Capitol Hill ‘Science Fair’.” July 9, 2025.
- Interviewed for Rhode Island PBS and The Boston Globe, “‘An Attack on Science’: Trump’s Cuts to Research Threatens R.I.’s Budding Life Sciences Sector.” May 2025.
2023
- Coastal Resilience Center (DHS Center of Excellence), “RI-CHAMP Makes Storm Impact Modeling Simple.”
- Interviewed for the Financial Times, “Climate Is a Supply Chain Problem That Can’t Be Ignored.”
2022
- Interviewed for the Washington Post, “Rising Seas Are the Next Crisis for the World’s Ports.” July 18, 2022.
- Interviewed for Yale Environment 360, “How Climate Change Is Disrupting the Global Supply Chain.” March 10, 2022. (Also picked up by PBS NewsHour and wire services.)
2021
- Quoted in EcoRI, “Worst-Case Scenario: Big Storm Could Unleash Problems on Port of Providence Area.” August 9, 2021.
- Quoted in Supply Chain Dive, “Some Ports Plan for Storm Risks, But Most Do Not.” June 1, 2021.
URI Media
2026
- URI Rhody Today, “URI Ph.D. Graduate, Professor Explore Challenges of Flood Risk Management in Newly Published Paper.” February 18, 2026.
- URI Rhody Today, “Functional Forecasting: URI Team Uses Homeland Security Exercises to Evaluate Storm Decision Support Tool.” February 4, 2026.
2025
- URI Rhody Today, “Rhode Island Legislators Approve Crucial Appropriation for Unique Weather-Related Tools at URI.” July 22, 2025.
2024
- URI Magazine, “Swelling the Banks.” Summer 2024.
2023
- URI Rhody Today, “URI Researchers Part of NSF-Funded Team Working to Address Impacts of a Warming Planet on Coastal Communities.” August 9, 2023.
2022
- URI Momentum Research & Innovation Magazine, “Rhode Island Coastal Hazards, Analysis, and Prediction,” by Clea Harrelson. Spring 2022.
- Aboard GSO, “Actionable Information: Isaac Ginis’ Team Is Making Dramatic Improvements in Storm-Damage Prediction.” July 2022.
Lab News
- Serving the Country and the Environment: David Bourbeau’s Application of RI CHAMP to the U.S. Coast Guard
- MACRL Lab Student David Bourbeau profiled in CELS
- MACRL lab part of new NSF Award
- New MACRL Publication – Operationalizing resilience planning, theory, and practice: Insights from U.S. seaports
- New MACRL Publication – Survey of U.S. Shipyards - MMA Grad Dave Hill, Austin Becker, and MAF Undergrad Athena Vieira published the latest MACRL paper, entitled, “The U.S. shipbuilding and repair industry’s considerations of coastal hazards resilience – a baseline survey” ABSTRACT Climate change and associated coastal hazards can disrupt the United States shipbuilding and repair industry’s operations. These disruptions present risks to […]