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  • RI homeowners already suffering due to sea-level rise, Sen. Whitehouse says - Some Rhode Island properties especially those along the coast, may be underwater within 30 years according to Rhode Island’s STORMTOOLS website, which is hosted by URI's Environmental Data Center.
  • Parts of Barrington will be underwater by 2035, sea-level data shows - URI's Environmental Data Center manages an ArcGIS Server that is getting a lot of use as people concerned about climate impacts in Rhode Island explore STORMTOOLS. STORMTOOLS helps Rhode Islanders assess their risk from coastal inundation.
  • URI student, Chloe Johnson, holding a wood turrle Statewide search is on for one of RI’s rarest turtles - NRS graduate student, Chloe Johnson, is surveying the state to identify local populations of one of the rarest turtles in RI--the wood turtle--and the habitats they use.
  • Photo of members of URI's 2021 Soil Judging team who competed in the the Divisional contest URI headed to National Soil Judging Competition - The URI soil judging team won first place in the Division 1 Soil Judging Competition, earing a trip to the National Soil Judging Competition in Ohio in April of 2022. URI students competed against 63 students representing 8 schools on their ability to describe, classify and interpret soil profiles; hand texture soils; and identify soil […]
  • Peter Paton measures the wing of a tufted titmouse and assesses the condition of its flight feathers. Avian Affection - URI faculty and URI’s Kingston Wildlife Research Station have been the starting point for many who’ve made careers out of their love of birds.
  • NRS doctoral student Laken Ganoe explaining her fisher project in a video by RI-DEM Tracking fishers in R.I. - In this video produced by the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, Natural Resources Science doctoral student Laken Ganoe, talks about a three-year project to capture and track fishers throughout western Rhode Island.
  • An aerial shot of wetlands showing a multicolored patch where sensing equipment has differentiated the landscape. New online graduate certificate programs for natural resource professionals - URI’s College of the Environment and Life Sciences is launching three online graduate certificate programs in 2021 to help professionals working in natural resource and environmental fields improve their skills and expertise.
  • URI graduate student John Crockett examines chewed sticks while conducting a survey for muskrats, beavers and river otters in western Rhode Island. URI scientists investigate distribution of muskrats, beavers, otters in R.I. - Traveling via kayak, graduate student John Crockett will be scouring lakes, ponds and wetlands over the next three years to search for signs of the three semi-aquatic mammals.