{"id":503,"date":"2014-01-24T11:46:36","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T16:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/?page_id=503"},"modified":"2025-06-10T14:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T18:49:07","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/news\/","title":{"rendered":"News and Events"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Events<\/h1>\n\n\n<div id=\"localist-widget-54593212\" class=\"localist-widget\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">News<\/h1>\n\n\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2026\/02\/functional-forecasting-uri-team-uses-homeland-security-exercises-to-evaluate-storm-decision-support-tool-as-part-of-katrina-lookback-issue\/\">Functional forecasting: URI team uses Homeland Security exercises to evaluate storm decision support tool as part of Katrina lookback issue<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/newbedfordlight.org\/wind-water-and-whales-the-science-the-south-coast-lost-in-2025\/\">MAF Faculty Featured in Article About Cancelled Grants<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oceanstatemedia.org\/news-and-culture\/climate-environment\/from-floods-to-forecasts-how-uri-scientists-help-rhode-island-plan-for-extreme-weather\">Prof. Becker interviewed about coastal hazards tools on Ocean State Public Radio<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.plan.aau.dk\/aau-researcher-receives-erc-grant-to-examine-coastal-communities-influence-over-the-sea-n156563\">Kristen Ounanian (MAF PhD, 2016) has secured the prestigious Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC).\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/11\/13\/climate\/austin-becker-coastal-flood-warning.html\">Prof. Becker profiled in New York Times<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/2025\/11\/24\/marine-affairs-coastal-resilience-lab-recruiting-for-a-phd-student\/\">Marine Affairs Coastal Resilience Lab recruiting for a PhD student<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">PhD Position in Coastal Resilience and AI-Driven Risk Management The Department of Marine Affairs (MAF) at the University of Rhode Island (URI) invites applications for a fully funded PhD position in Coastal Resilience and AI-Driven Risk Management, with a focus on leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) to improve natural hazard early warning systems and decision-support tools [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/talking-offshore-wind-communication-in-a-polarized-world\/id1485337462?i=1000723578216\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1619\/bidwell-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1619\/bidwell-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1619\/bidwell.jpeg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/talking-offshore-wind-communication-in-a-polarized-world\/id1485337462?i=1000723578216\">Prof. Bidwell discusses offshore wind communications on new podcast<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Swedish offshore wind energy company Vattenfall&#8217;s recent &#8220;not safe for work&#8221; video starring American film star Samuel L. Jackson got a lot of attention online. Marine Affairs professor David Bidwell recently joined an S&amp;P Global podcast to discuss the potential impact of this advertisement and the offshore wind communications environment in the U.S.<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"http:\/\/uri.edu\/news\/2025\/07\/rhode-island-legislators-approve-crucial-appropriation-for-unique-weather-related-tools-at-uri\/\">Rhode Island legislators approve crucial appropriation for unique weather-related tools at URI<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cels\/news\/the-state-of-marine-affairs\/\">Marine Affairs Graduate Students Offer Community, Resources Through New Series<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2025\/02\/uri-marine-affairs-professor-honored-for-work-studying-global-nuclear-order\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1619\/58-Aniv-Premio-AACT-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1619\/58-Aniv-Premio-AACT-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1619\/58-Aniv-Premio-AACT-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1619\/58-Aniv-Premio-AACT-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1619\/58-Aniv-Premio-AACT-600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2025\/02\/uri-marine-affairs-professor-honored-for-work-studying-global-nuclear-order\/\">URI marine affairs professor honored for work studying global nuclear order<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Beth Mendenhall\u2019s work looks at the role of Treaty of Tlatelolco in Western Hemisphere<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Events News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-503","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12901,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/503\/revisions\/12901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}