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 […]

Jessica Vandenberg (MAF PhD) spent the summer conducting her dissertation fieldwork on the island of Bontosua, a small island located in the Spermonde Archipelago of Indonesia. Jessica’s research focuses on understanding the influence that external development projects have on small island communities. More specifically, she is investigating the impacts of a community-supported coral restoration project […]

On May 23rd MAF PhD candidate Peter Stempel was awarded a scholarship by the Propeller Club of Narragansett Bay.  The propeller club’s mission to promote and support the American merchant marine and maritime industries.  The scholarship was awarded based on the potential contribution of Peter’s ongoing visualization work to the resilience of port facilities on which […]

Professor Robert Thompson and students Melvin Alvarez (2017), Katie Canfield (2018), and Rennie Meyers (2018) presented papers at the 9th International Congress on Coastal and Marine Tourism June 13-16, Gothenburg, Sweden. Accompanied by Professor Rob Thompson, the URI team presented everything from preliminary to final thesis research and connected with international researchers critically engaged with […]

Hilary focused her Master’s program on social resilience and the human dimensions of protected areas in the tropical developing world, specifically small island developing states (SIDS) of the Caribbean. Her thesis was published in Ocean & Coastal Management’s Special Edition on Oceans and Climate Change (2016), Comparing vulnerability and adaptive capacity to climate change in […]

MAF faculty member Dr. Hollie Smith has been selected as a recipient of the National Academy of Science’s Sackler Colloquium Early Career Researcher Award. Smith, an assistant professor in communication studies and marine affairs, is one of ten researchers from across the U.S. to receive the award. Smith’s collaborative research, with partners at the Metcalf […]