Scott McWilliams is a professor of wildlife ecology and physiology at URI. He received his Ph.D. in wildlife ecology from University of California at Davis, USA, and his M.Sc. in animal ecology from Iowa State University. He conducted his postdoctoral training in wildlife ecology at University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA. He studies the ecology […]

Dr. Amelia Moore is an Associate Professor of Marine Affairs in the College of Environment and Life Sciences at the University of Rhode Island. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociocultural Anthropology from the University of California Berkeley and her B.A. in Environmental Biology from Columbia University. Amelia’s research includes the social study of evolving marine […]

James H. Miller earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1979 from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, his M.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1981 from Stanford University, and his Doctor of Science in Oceanographic Engineering in 1987 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He was on the faculty of the Department of Electrical […]

Dr. Lang is an Environmental Economist with research expertise in valuation of environmental amenities, assessment of energy reduction programs, and climate change. In 2017, he received funding from NOAA/Sea Grant to examine the tourism impacts of the Block Island Wind Farm and valuation of the farm by permanent residents. He has also received funding from […]

Annette Grilli is a research associate professor of ocean engineering at the University of Rhode Island (URI). She is a climatologist with about 25 years of experience in environmental and ocean engineering (OCE), split between private sector and academia; she joined the URI OCE academic team in 2005. Among her most relevant offshore and coastal […]

Tracey Dalton is a professor and department chair of Marine Affairs at the University of Rhode Island. Her research covers a variety of topics, all involving human interactions with marine and coastal environments. She has conducted studies on how people think about & use coastal and marine environments, the social and economic impacts of using […]

Christopher Baxter is a joint Professor in the Departments of Ocean/Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Rhode Island and was Chairman of the Ocean Engineering Department from 2011-2017. He has been a member of the URI faculty since 2001 and is a registered professional engineer in Rhode Island. Dr. Baxter received his BS […]

Dr. John W. King obtained his undergraduate degree in special studies at Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA in 1975. His degree combined biology, geology, and chemistry. He then obtained his PhD in geology from the University of Minnesota in 1983. After a one-year post-doctoral fellowship at Minnesota, King arrived at the Graduate School of […]

Reza Hashemi has been an associate professor in the Department of Ocean Engineering and Graduate School of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island, USA. He was hired at URI in December 2014. Hashemi was an academic staff at the School of Ocean Sciences of Bangor University, UK, during 2011-2014. He was awarded his first […]

David Bidwell is an Assistant Professor in Marine Affairs. He applies the theories and methods of environmental sociology and social psychology to understand environmental decision making. His recent work has focused on public acceptance of the Block Island Wind Farm, the first offshore wind farm in the U.S. Bidwell has conducted quantitative and qualitative studies […]