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.

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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 […]

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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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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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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 […]

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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. […]

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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 […]

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