Kaylyn Hawkes Keane is a Program Coordinator for URI Cooperative Extension. Kaylyn coordinates the URI Energy Fellows Program, Rhode Island’s premier experiential learning program for the students entering the sustainable energy industry. Along with the Cooperative Extension team, Kaylyn develops and implements energy literacy programming to educate the general public, municipal officials and policymakers on […]

Decision research and policy simulation: using technology-based tools to help communities make better decisions regarding their futures by helping them to better visualize the consequences of alternative policy actions (including inaction) on ecosystems, environmental quality, town finances and the character of their community. Tools include Geographic Information Systems (GIS), digital imagery, and virtual reality tools, […]

As an interdisciplinary scientist, Dr. Becker works across the fields of planning, policy, engineering, design, and ocean science. He uses seaports as a case study, focusing on creating and testing tools that help decision makers engage with complex problems involving uncertainty, consequences of natural hazards and large-scale shifts in climate, and the resulting challenges in […]

Tom’s research background is in Agricultural and Resource Economics, with a focus on risk modeling, insurance and risk management. He has done research on a variety of topics, including pollution regulation, farm policy, strategic behavior in fisheries, and behavioral economics and finance. Features Research

Stephan Grilli holds a joint appointment as Distinguished Professor of Ocean Engineering and Professor of Oceanography in the Graduate School of Oceanography, at the University of Rhode Island. He was Chair of the Ocean Engineering Department from 2002-2008 and has been Chair since 2017. He has been a member of the URI faculty since 1991. […]

Dr. Simona Trandafir is an Assistant Professor in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics at University of Rhode Island. She received a Ph.D in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics from University of Rhode Island (URI), a Masters Degree in Environmental and Natural Resource Management from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania and a Bachelor of Science […]

Gopu R Potty is an Associate Research Professor in Ocean Engineering at the University of Rhode Island, USA. His areas of research include underwater acoustics, acoustical oceanography, marine bio-acoustics, acoustical signal processing, inverse methods, and application of Bayesian and machine learning techniques in acoustics. He has been actively involved in various research projects investigating the […]

Peter Paton is a professor of wildlife ecology at URI. He received his Ph.D. in wildlife biology from Utah State University, USA, and his M.Sc. in wildlife biology from Colorado State University. He worked as a federal wildlife biologist (USFWS, USFS) and contract biologist for 10 years before joining the URI faculty. He studies the […]