Port Planning Class explores Brooklyn and Boston Waterfronts

This semester’s Port Planning and Policy class, led by Professor Austin Becker and R. Duncan McIntosh, has delved deep into the working waterfronts in New York City and Boston. Students discussed topics including the future role of ports, their development, and their current operational constraints with local port officials and workers. The course is designed […]

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Prof. Austin Becker Selected as a 2017 Sloan Research Fellow

Prof. Austin Becker has been selected as a 2017 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Ocean Sciences.  As an Assistant Professor of Coastal Planning, Policy, and Design, Prof. Becker conducts interdisciplinary research that cuts across the fields of planning, policy, design and engineering. He teaches Marine Affairs courses in coastal climate adaptation, maritime transportation systems […]

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Lee Benaka (MMA 1997) Receives Silver Sherman Award

In the fall of 2015, NOAA Under Secretary Dr. Kathryn Sullivan initiated an internal honorary award with the creation of the Order of Sherman’s Lagoon, also known as the Silver Sherman Award.  Jim Toomey, illustrator of the daily cartoon, Sherman’s Lagoon, which shares the exploits of Sherman the shark and also educates readers about the environment, agreed to NOAA using Sherman’s image for […]

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MAMA Student Researching Perceptions of Bahamian Coral Reef Sculpture Garden 

Casey Tremper is a 2nd year Master’s of Arts of Marine Affairs student. She is carrying out her thesis research on perceptions surrounding the Underwater Coral Reef Sculpture Garden in Nassau on the island of New Providence, Bahamas. Casey spent 10 days in The Bahamas over winter break interviewing tourists, conservation managers, dive tour operators, […]

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Prof. Becker publishes in J. of Sustainability Science

Using boundary objects to stimulate transformational thinking: storm resilience for the Port of Providence, Rhode Island (USA) Online at: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11625-016-0416-y?wt_mc=Internal.Event.1.SEM.ArticleAuthorOnlineFirst Like many coastal ports around the world, Rhode Island’s Port of Providence in USA is at risk for climate-related natural hazards, such as catastrophic storm surges and significant sea level rise (0.5–2.0 m), over the next century. […]

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