People

Graduate Students

M.A. students

  • David Bourbeau - M.M.A.
    Marine Transportation System (MTS), Marine Spatial Planning, USCG Waterways Management
  • Clare Brown - M.A.M.A.
  • Lindsay Brubaker - M.A.M.A.
    Environmental justice, local and traditional ecological knowledge, coastal resilience
  • Erin Cardoza - M.A.M.A.
    Marine Conservation, Human Impacts, Ocean Plastics
  • Georgia Cheney - M.A.M.A.
    Resilience planning, sea level rise, flood mitigation
  • Vincent Deingeniis - M.A.M.A.
    Stormwater management, Water quality monitoring, Greenwich Bay, Rhode Island
  • Ryan DiPanni - M.A.M.A.
    Climate Adaptation and Resilience, Ocean/Coastal Justice, and Offshore Wind
  • Kimberly Gniadek - M.A.M.A.
    Marine Conservation, Marine Plastic Pollution, Conservation, Ocean Literacy
  • Giselle Hausmann - M.A.M.A.
    Marine mammals and offshore wind energy, marine mammals and noise pollution
  • Rafeed Hussain - M.A.M.A.
    Offshore wind, Coastal Community Impacts
  • Do Hyun Oh - M.A.M.A.
    International shipping policy, Alternative marine fuel
  • Grace Omer - M.A.M.A.
    Ocean policy and law, Marine conservation, Fisheries management
  • Emmanuel Oyewole - M.A.M.A.
    Fisheries Management, Sustainable resource use, and Ocean Policy
  • Jena Panas - M.A.M.A.
    Social justice, Oyster Aquaculture
  • Alyssa Parise - M.A.M.A.
    Marine conservation, human impact, MPAs, ocean policy
  • Josh Pi - M.M.A.
    Coastal socio-ecological systems, biological oceanography, marine conservation and management
  • Bryan Plankenhorn - M.M.A.
    Indigenous Communities Coastal Access Rights
  • Alejandro Rojas - M.A.M.A.
    Sustainable seafood, Seafood preferences of Rhode Island Consumers, Food Neophobia
  • Helmawaty Rumbiak - M.A.M.A.
    Ocean policy and law, Maritime boundary
  • Karen Slattery - M.M.A.
  • Andrew Spaulding - M.M.A.
    aquaculture governance
  • Satya Sullivan - M.A.M.A.
    Non-fiction Filmmaking, Seafood systems, Surf
  • Kimberly Sullivan - M.M.A.
    Human Dimensions of Recreational Fishing
  • Cornelius Tyson - M.M.A.
    International and domestic ocean governance, climate change, and coastal resilience policy
  • Andrew Walsh - M.M.A.
    Marine mammals, Climate Change policy, clean energy, conservation policy
  • Jamie-Lynn Ward - M.A.M.A.
    Conservative, tourism, coastal resilience
  • Mandy Watson - M.A.M.A.
    Coastal hazards and adaptation, environmental justice, policy

Ph.D. students

  • Oliver Tiliouine - Ph.D.
    Sea level rise, maritime zones, ocean governance
  • Sam Adams - Ph.D.
    Storm hazard vulnerability assessment
  • Nicole Lengyel Costa - Ph.D.
    Importance and Resiliency in the Port of Galilee, RI
  • Joe-Silem Enlet - Ph.D.
    International fisheries policy, fisheries governance and management, geopolitics/geoeconomics, indigenous/cultural participation, decolonial methods and indigenous epistemologies
  • Rosemarie Fusco Rosemarie Fusco - PhD
    Comprehensive Planning, Coastal Zone Management, Maritime Communities
  • Noah Hallisey - Ph.D.
    Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing, Coastal Resilience, Coastal Hazard Impact Modeling, Disaster Risk Reduction
  • Ken Hamel - PhD
    harmful algal blooms, community resilience, ecosystem disservices, water quality policy, ethnobotany of algae
  • Shannon Howley - Ph.D.
    Offshore wind, environmental justice, climate change communication, public engagement 
  • Han Le - Ph.D.
    Vulnerability, Payment for ecosystem services, Community-based management
  • Julia Livermore - PhD
    Fisheries management, offshore wind development, fishery-dependent data, machine learning, marine spatial planning
  • Kyle McElroy - PhD
    Coastal resilience and adaptation, Coastal hazard response and preparedness response
  • David Ostwind - Ph.D.
    Disaster response, Sealift, Evacuation by sea 
  • Nara Wisesa - Ph.D.
    Coastal resource management patterns, Community-based management, Marine conservation