University of Rhode Island graduate students enrolled in the school’s Marine Affairs and Masters of Environmental Science and Management Programs recently attended a special one-day program for Rhode Island’s energy and environmental leaders — an event organized by Rhode Island’s U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse — and met federal lawmakers, including Whitehouse and Massachusetts’ U.S. Senator […]
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MAF kicks off inaugural year of the MAF/USMRC Fellowship Program
URI and US Maritime Resource Center–a nonprofit organization with a niche focus specializing in navigation safety, maritime risk mitigation, human capital development and raising awareness of international shipping, maritime trade and transport—signed a five-year MOU at the beginning of 2016. The MOU outlines the goals and objectives of a fellowship program. During the summer of […]
Continue reading "MAF kicks off inaugural year of the MAF/USMRC Fellowship Program"URI Faculty Explore Tourism and Fisheries in Lombok, Indonesia
URI faculty, Robert Thompson, Austin Humphries, and Amelia Moore, explored South Lombok, Indonesia over the summer of 2016. Over the summer of 2016, three CELS faculty traveled to Indonesia to initiate long-term research on the relationship between tourism and fisheries in that island nation. The trip was sponsored by URI’s Carnegie Global Faculty Travel Fund. […]
Continue reading "URI Faculty Explore Tourism and Fisheries in Lombok, Indonesia"Katie Denman (MAMA ‘17) Travels to Charles County, Maryland to Study the Nomination Process of the Proposed Mallows Bay-Potomac River National Marine Sanctuary
MAF Master’s Student Katie Denman is currently working with MAF Professor Tracey Dalton on a thesis project that focuses on the recently reopened NOAA National Marine Sanctuary Nomination Process. Katie is interested in exploring the new process and, more specifically, is trying to understand how participants perceive the nomination process. Mallows Bay-Potomac River in Charles […]
Continue reading "Katie Denman (MAMA ‘17) Travels to Charles County, Maryland to Study the Nomination Process of the Proposed Mallows Bay-Potomac River National Marine Sanctuary"TCS, URI Chapter, Participates in 2016 International Coastal Cleanup
On September 17th, the Coastal Society, URI Chapter, participated in the 31st annual International Coastal Cleanup. Eighteen URI students, from various departments, including Marine Affairs and Engineering, participated in this year’s coastal cleanup at Scarborough Beach State Park in Narragansett, RI. Students collected over 1,700 items of marine debris including: 70 straws, 51 plastic bottles, […]
Continue reading "TCS, URI Chapter, Participates in 2016 International Coastal Cleanup"Professors Jessica Frazier and Amelia Moore are hosting an Environmental Justice Speaker Series on URI’s Kingston campus!
This academic year, Professors Jessica Frazier and Amelia Moore will be hosting five scholars specializing in environmental justice scholarship on the Kingston campus. Speakers in the series make connections between race, poverty, gender, colonization, and detrimental environmental policies in local, regional, national, and international contexts. All talks will be held from 4-5pm. Please see details […]
Continue reading "Professors Jessica Frazier and Amelia Moore are hosting an Environmental Justice Speaker Series on URI’s Kingston campus!"Tracey Dalton gives invited talk at the Annual Meeting of the Salt Ponds Coalition
Dr. Tracey Dalton was the invited speaker at the Annual Meeting of the Salt Ponds Coalition (http://www.saltpondscoalition.org/) which was held in Charlestown, RI on August 15. In her presentation, Dr. Dalton highlighted findings of her recent research on recreational uses in the salt ponds and public perceptions of shellfish aquaculture in Rhode Island. She also […]
Continue reading "Tracey Dalton gives invited talk at the Annual Meeting of the Salt Ponds Coalition"Prof. Carlos Garcia-Quijano and colleagues study estuarine resource use and human well-being in Puerto Rico
Carlos García-Quijano spent six weeks this summer doing ethnographic research around mangroves and estuarine areas on the South Coast of Puerto Rico, along with Dr. John Poggie and Dr. Hilda Lloréns (Sociology and Anthropology) as well as colleagues from East Carolina University (Dr. David Griffith) and the University of Puerto Rico at Ponce (Dr. Miguel […]
Continue reading "Prof. Carlos Garcia-Quijano and colleagues study estuarine resource use and human well-being in Puerto Rico"Dr. Elizabeth McLean joins MAF as Research Associate
Dr. Elizabeth Mclean has been appointed as a Research Associate to work on our USACE funded seaport vulnerability indexing project Dr. Elizabeth L. Mclean is an experienced researcher in applied and experimental coral reef studies. Her most recent work focuses on ecology and human dimensions of coastal fishermen and their local ecological knowledge in Rhode […]
Continue reading "Dr. Elizabeth McLean joins MAF as Research Associate"MAMA graduate publishes thesis research on vulnerability and adaptive capacity to climate change
Hilary Lohmann’s (MAMA ’15) thesis research was recently published in the journal Ocean & Coastal Management: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0964569116301624. Hilary’s research considered the similarities and differences amongst coastal people of the Dominican Republic in their vulnerabilities and adaptive capacity to climate change. Many indicators of adaptive capacity like attachment to place and ability to plan, learn, and […]
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