Building resilience: Urban park meets shellfish habitat

Art, design, science, & community merge in RI EPSCoR restoration project Tethered to wood pilings partially submerged in Providence Harbor off the India Point Park shoreline, a series of concrete sculptures lure the settling of shellfish larvae and any other manner of sea life that happen upon their surface. The mid-summer installation led by Rhode Island […]

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SURF’s up 2016: Rhode Island undergrads in research

“It’s a privilege for me to have gotten into this program.” Research fellow: Jeremy Hecker Hometown: Warwick, RI School: Community College of Rhode Island Fellowship: at University of Rhode Island Major: Associates degree, Science Mentors: Dawn Cardace, Abigail Johnson Project: Impacts of increased CO2 on carbon mineralization at microbe-mineral interfaces On paper, the acronym RI […]

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