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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MAF Graduate Students Present Thesis Research at RAE-TCS Summit 2016
Sara Benson, Nelle D’Aversa, and Katie Denman (M.A.M.A 2017) presented their thesis research at the Restore America’s Estuaries – The Coastal Society (RAE-TCS) Our Coasts, Our Future, Our Choice National Summit 2016 in New Orleans on Monday, December 12th, 2016 during the poster session. Benson presented her thesis research titled “Investigating Rhode Island Town Beach […]
Continue reading "MAF Graduate Students Present Thesis Research at RAE-TCS Summit 2016"Adjunct MAF Professor Smythe (MAF PhD 2011) publishes new work in Ocean and Coastal Management
Dr. Tiffany Smythe, Visiting Professor in Marine Affairs and MAF PhD (2011), recently published an article on the New England regional ocean planning network in Ocean and Coastal Management Journal. The article reports the results of a social network analysis performed on this group of practitioners and stakeholders, and is timely given that the Northeast […]
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The Coastal Society, University of Rhode Island chapter, hosted Coastal Career Day on Friday, November 18th, 2016. The goal of Coastal Career Day was to help graduating students think broadly about possible career paths in areas such as marine science, coastal management, policy and planning, and other coastal related fields. Coastal Career Day provided undergraduate […]
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Peter Stempel (MAF PhD) visualization work featured in ProJo Article
Andrew Norris co-authors new study on potential fisheries effects of ice recession in the Arctic
Marine Affairs Instructor Andrew Norris recently co-authored an article in the Polar Record journal that examines the extent and nature of ice recession in the Arctic, and its likely effect on the accessibility of central Arctic ocean fisheries to commercial exploitation. Check out the full article here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/polar-record/firstview.
Continue reading "Andrew Norris co-authors new study on potential fisheries effects of ice recession in the Arctic"MAF Graduate Student, Rennie Meyers, Publishes in the Journal, Resilience.
Rennie Meyers, a recent graduate of Reed College, will join the MAF graduate program this Spring. Her first article has just been published online by Resilience. The article describes Rennie’s research in Thailand as part of her year long Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. An aesthetics of resilience: design and agency in contemporary coral restoration If the […]
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Prof. Carlos Garcia-Quijano was interviewed last summer by Carson Vaughan, a freelance journalist who is touring the USA in an RV for a year and writing about it along the way. Vaughan’s article about Rhode Island highlights Prof. Garcia-Quijano’s work on local ecological knowledge in the Caribbean and Rhode Island. You can read the full […]
Continue reading "Prof. Carlos Garcia-Quijano featured in USA Today"Professor Thompson spends part of sabbatical in Taiwan
Professor Thompson has spent part of his sabbatical year in Taiwan. Professor Thompson was invited to Taiwan to participate in the17th APEC (Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation) Roundtable Meeting on the Involvement of the Business/Private Sector in the Sustainability of the Marine Environment and to be a keynote speaker at the 4th Annual Oceans & Taiwan […]
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