Discovery: People in Nature at Napatree

Home to a diverse range of plants and animals, Napatree Point Conservation Area has 100,000+ visitors a year . Managers strive to balance promoting recreation with implementing conservation. Produced by the URI Coastal Institute in collaboration with the Watch Hill Fire District, and the Watch Hill Conservancy. Narrated by Eric Lutes, actor. View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw5v93G5UiY

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7th Annual Scott W. Nixon Lecture

PFAFs Around the Globe: Effects on human health of oceanic pollution in the Arctic Dr. Pál Weihe is a part of the URI-led STEEP Superfund Research Program. Learn more about Dr. Weihe’s efforts over the last 30 years to serve his community through the provision of medical care and to minimize community exposures to marine contaminants. View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETJYY0LRd5w

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4th Annual Scott W. Nixon Lecture

Getting Rid of Hypoxia in a Warming World Daniel Conley Professor of Biogeochemistry Lund University, Sweden Thursday, April 28, 2016 A number of synthesis efforts have documented the world-wide increase in hypoxia across the land-ocean continuum driven by nutrient inputs and warming. The Baltic Sea provides an interesting case study to examine changes in oxygen […]

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1st Annual Scott W. Nixon Lecture

Auditing the Seven Plagues of the Coastal Ecosystems Carlos M. Duarte presented the First Annual Scott W. Nixon Lecture, “Auditing the Seven Plagues of the Coastal Ecosystems”, on April 17, 2013 in the URI Coastal Institute Auditorium on the Narragansett Bay Campus.  The lecture can be seen at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmrAzZPIb-M&feature=youtu.be.

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