by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Mar 6, 2023 | Fall/Winter '23
Dirty, Muddy, Cold, and Wet––And Loving It Oyster Farmers Describe Their Calling By Pearl Marvell Above: clip from ‘Oyster Farm Tour at Hog Island.’ IT IS A SUNNY MORNING IN OCTOBER. The water is calm and sparkling in Wickford Cove. The fleet of pleasure...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Mar 6, 2023 | Fall/Winter '23
Taking Root Environmental Activists Grow Local Efforts By Amanda Valentine Riverside Park sits as a jewel of a park along the Woony River Greenway in Olneyville. Where once lay decay after the area declined in World War II, now sits one of the best hidden gems of the...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Mar 6, 2023 | Fall/Winter '23
Shell Company The past, present, and future of selling seashell art By Ellen Liberman MELONIE MASS A STARTS WITH A CAPIZ SHELL the size of a quarter. The flat, iridescent Capiz is the carapace of the windowpane oyster, which lives in the mud flats off the Philippines....
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Mar 6, 2023 | Fall/Winter '23
Shoreline Access App Gets an Update By Monica Allard Cox HOW COMFORTABLE DO YOU FEEL SCALING OFF A CLIFF to get to the shore? The answer for me is, not very. This matters because over the summer, graduate student Erica Meier and I visited hundreds of Rhode Island’s...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Mar 2, 2022 | Fall/Winter22
Kelp On The Cusp Powdered, Pickled, or Brewed, the Savory Seaweed May Finally Be Having Its Moment By Ellen Liberman| Photographs by Jesse Burke Catherine Puckett’s kelp farm spans 2 and a half acres of Block Island’s Great Salt Pond. Eight longlines, suspended...
