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 […]

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 […]