Her appointment as a Research Fellow at the Centre for Coastal Management allows Ivy to build on the work of her thesis project, providing a valuable contribution to coastal policy and research.
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A survey of maritime infrastructure engineers by University of Rhode Island researchers found that the rising sea level is often not factored into designs of ports, breakwaters, fishing piers and other coastal infrastructure.
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Prof. Becker has been working with a URI team to bring local scale, high-resolution, storm models to emergency managers in Rhode Island.
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Over 20 TCS members collected 30 lbs of trash in partnership with the Narrow River Preservation Association.
Continue reading "URI chapter of The Coastal Society organizes kayak cleanup event"MAF graduates Kaytee Canfield, Jessica Vandenberg, and Rennie Meyers publish in the new issue of Shima, an island studies journal.
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To all Marine Affairs students, faculty, staff, and alumni, 2020 has been and continues to be a challenging year. Among all the other things that are going on, we realize that police violence against black bodies has not abated. Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Rayshard Brooks, Daniel Prude, Jacob Blake. We say their names […]
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Jessie Frazier and Amelia Moore have been collaborating with Maryann Gobern Mathews of Block Island and East Providence for two years to document the post-contact history of Native and African American residents of Block Island.
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Dr. Amelia Moore of Marine Affairs and Journalism professor, Dr. Kendall Moore have been awarded $300,000 from the National Science Foundation’s EAGER Program to make a documentary film entitled, “Decolonizing Science and Ethics in Informal STEM Contexts”.
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Dr. Carlos G. García-Quijano and colleague Dr. Hilda Lloréns published their article From Extractive Agriculture to Industrial Waste Periphery: Life in a Black-Puerto Rican Ecology in Black Perspectives, an award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS).
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Congratulations to Class of 2020 Academic Excellence Award in Marine Affairs recipient Declan O’Donnell.
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