by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Mar 2, 2022 | Fall/Winter22
South Providence’s “Slice of Water Access” By Amanda Valentine | Portrait Photograph by Dana Smith The end of Public Street, just off Allen’s Avenue in South Providence, earned its permanent protection as a Coastal Resources Management Council...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Mar 2, 2022 | Fall/Winter22
Into The Deep: Book Review A Memoir From the Man Who Found Titanic By Monica Allard Cox Bob Ballard knows most people only remember him for discovering the Titanic. He also knows that some of his colleagues, former bosses, and academic rivals think he is an...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Jun 21, 2021 | Spring/Summer 2021
Forging On The Last of the Quahog Tong Makers By Ellen Liberman | Photographs by Jesse Burke The clam has but two defenses: a shell and a foot. It uses the latter to burrow as much as 11 inches under the sea floor, where it hopes to live quietly in the muck, filtering...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Jun 21, 2021 | Spring/Summer 2021
Reviving the Ancient Craft of Salt Making Local Hand-Harvested Sea Salt By Meredith Haas Matt Mullins, co-owner of Newport Salt Co., collects seawater from Brenton Point. We were out of salt. After months of home cooking during the COVID-19 pandemic, we went through...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Jun 21, 2021 | Spring/Summer 2021
Boosting the Band of Boatbuilders A Blend of Traditional and Modern Boatbuilding By Todd McLeish | Photographs by Jesse Burke As a social studies teacher at a middle school in New York City, Ariana Murphy was restless. After earning a degree in history, she had worked...
