Category: Tidepool Post

“From the Tidepool” blog posts

R/V Endeavor Painting Dedicated to the URI Graduate School of Oceanography

On July 5th, an oil painting of the R/V Endeavor was dedicated to the URI Graduate School of Oceanography by artist Eric Lutes and the Coastal Institute. Lutes is a URI alumnus with a significant resume of work in theatre, film and television as well as a burgeoning career as a painter. This painting represents a tradition of blue water […]

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Watershed Counts Connects Climate Change to RI’s Environment and Economy

  Climate change is already impacting the Narragansett Bay Watershed’s environment and economy. Fortunately, state and local agencies, cities and towns, and businesses and homeowners in Rhode Island have already begun implementing innovative strategies to protect natural resources, the economy, and public health. While climate change takes many forms—droughts, wildfires and emerging diseases—the 2017 Watershed […]

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Big Picture, Big Thinking About Changing the Ocean Circulation Paradigm.

The Coastal Institute hosted the 5th Annual Scott W. Nixon Lecture featuring Dr. Susan Lozier of Duke University on April 13, 2017. Dr. Nixon had a lifelong commitment to big-picture thinking and to challenging seemingly-accepted scientific theories, a commitment that Dr. Lozier shares as she challenges traditional thinking about how our ocean waters circulate the […]

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Jasmine Dumas kicked off the “Careers in R” speaker series with Adventures in Crafting a Data Science Career

Big data are a big deal. No one knows that better than Jasmine Dumas, who started down her career path as an engineer where she was exposed to a glut of underused data in the manufacturing of medical equipment. Intrigued by the information she could mine from the data, she began investigating on her own—taking […]

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TNC/URI GLOBAL MARINE RESEARCH AWARDS ANNOUNCED

The Nature Conservancy and the University of Rhode Island’s Coastal Institute (TNC/URI) are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2017 TNC/URI Student Research Award. This award supports research projects that advance the conservation and restoration of marine and coastal ecosystems. Amber Hardy, Biological and Environmental Sciences, College of the Environment and Life Sciences (Research […]

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Watershed Counts Highlights Connection between Small Streams and Narragansett Bay

Nicole E. Rohr, Assistant Director of the Coastal Institute at URI On September 16, the Coastal Institute presented the 2016 Watershed Counts report to the New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission (NEIWPCC) Board of Commissioners. This group has representatives from the seven New England states, including Rhode Island and Massachusetts, bi-state home to Narragansett […]

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Status of environmental monitoring efforts in Rhode Island summarized in annual report

The Rhode Island Environmental Monitoring Collaborative, chaired by the Coastal Institute, released its annual report on December 18th. The environmental monitoring activities described in this report are essential to state programs that protect public health, manage natural resources and their sustainable uses, and support important sectors of our economy including tourism, commercial fisheries, and aquaculture […]

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