Overviews of the Marine Affairs graduate thesis and dissertation research from the class of 2020.
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MAF Professor Elizabeth Mendenhall: Climate Change Increases Risk of Fisheries Conflict
A team of fisheries scientists and marine policy experts, led by Professor Mendenhall, examined how climate change is affecting the ocean environment.
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Jessica Vandenberg, Ph.D. Marine Affairs, has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright grant to continue her research in Indonesia.
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In 1970, the University of Rhode Island became the first academic institution in the world to create a graduate program in ocean and coastal policy, management, and law.
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“Change starts with having a personal environmental ethic, and that ethic is to do no harm. Take care of what you have.”
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Assistant Professor Elizabeth Mendenhall joined three alumni of the Marine Affairs Masters program on an educational oceanographic cruise through the Rhode Island Teachers-at-Sea program.
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Representatives of Rhode Island emergency management agencies, along with government and public health departments met with University of Rhode Island researchers for training exercises this summer.
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Professor Diamond joins the Marine Affairs faculty in a joint appointment with the Department of Communication Studies. Her research investigates how communication strategies influence public opinion on the environment.
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MAF MAMA graduate Mike Rinaldi ’16 was named Employee of the Quarter by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission for the second quarter of 2019.
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