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

“So Many Estuaries, So Little Time” – Narragansett Bay as a Model for Coastal Systems Under Change Dr. Robinson W. Fulweiler speaks about Narragansett Bay as a model for coastal systems under change at the Scott W. Nixon lecture sponsored by the URI Coastal Institute. Dr. Fulweiler is an Associate Professor of the Departments of […]

A 21st century look at the global ocean conveyor belt Dr. Susan Lozier challenges traditional thinking about how our ocean waters circulate the globe and how climate change is impacting these circulation patterns during her talk at the annual Scott. W. Nixon lecture on April 13, 2017 at the University of Rhode Island Coastal Institute. […]

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 […]

Nitrogen – the good, the bad, and the beautiful The Coastal Institute sponsored the third Annual Scott Nixon Lecture, which was presented on March 26 featuring Dr. Sybil Seitzinger, a GSO Ph.D., who delivered an excellent lecture on “Nitrogen – the good, the bad, and the beautiful.”  Her lecture focused on the importance of nitrogen […]

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.