Professors Dr. Tracey Dalton, Dr. David Bidwell, Dr. Amelia Moore and students Talya ten Brink (PhD ’20), Kaytee Cainfield (PhD ’20), Ivy Serwaa Gyimah Akuoko (MAMA ’18), Rennie Meyers (MAMA ’18), and Aislyne Calianos (BA ’18) traveled to Charleston, South Carolina to present their research in oral presentations. At the session on “Planning for Offshore […]

Vanessa Anderson (MMA 2018) presented her research on ‘Green Ports’ to the Harbor Management Commission (HMC) at Providence City Hall on Wednesday, February 7th. The Harbor Management Commission enforces provisions of the Harbor Management plan for the City of Providence and serves as the regulatory body for the Port of Providence. The ‘Green Port Initiatives: […]

Bobby Witkop (MAMA ’17) and Nelle D’Aversa (MAMA & MESM ’17) traveled to New Orleans, Louisiana, for the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting; the largest earth and space science meeting in the world.   Bobby and Nelle presented their research at the late breaking session on Hurricanes Harvey, Maria and Irma. Bobby explained how to […]

Dr. Austin Becker and Gerald Bove (MAMA ’18) attended an UNCTAD sponsored workshop entitled “Climate change impacts and adaptation for coastal transport infrastructure in the Caribbean” held in Barbados December 5-8. The two went as scientific advisors to the meeting attended by representatives from 21 countries and territories in the Caribbean. They facilitated a breakout […]

Nelle D’Aversa (MAMA ’17), TalyorWitkin (MAMA ’18), and Jessica Vandenberg (PhD ’20) presented at the 24th Biennial Coastal & Estuarine Research Federation (CERF) November 6-9th. D’Aversa gave a traditional oral presentation on her master’s thesis research entitled “Perspectives on Emerging Water Quality Monitoring Technologies: Understanding Factors that Affect Technology Adoption in Coastal Management” during the […]

On September 16th, 2017 the Coastal Society’s URI Chapter participated in the 32nd annual International Coastal Cleanup at Scarborough State Beach in Narragansett. URI students from a number of departments gathered to collect over 80 pounds of plastic bottles, discarded clothes, fishing line, cigarette butts, and more. In order to contribute to the Ocean Conservancy’s 2017 […]

Professor Tracey Dalton, colleagues, and MAF students were recently featured in two local newspapers, The Block Island Times and The Westerly Sun, for their research projects associated with the Block Island Wind Farm. Dalton is collaborating with Julia Livermore from Rhode Island’s Department of Environmental Management (RIDEM), to investigate the perceived and actual ecological effects […]

Professor Thompson took four URI graduate students, including three from Marine Affairs (Melvin Alvarez 2017, Katie Rubstello 2019, and Bobby Witkop 2018), with him to Taiwan this August for the Interdisciplinary International Seminar on Coastal Management that he team teaches with faculty from the University of Tokyo and National Taiwan Ocean University. This year the […]