by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Jun 19, 2020 | Spring 2020
A River Runs Through It A CHANGING CLIMATE, INCREASING DEVELOPMENT, AND AGING, ANTIQUATED DAMS ARE PUTTING RHODE ISLAND CITIES AND TOWNS IN PERIL By Bob Gulla | Photographs by Monica Allard Cox THE DAME AT THE SOUTHERN END OF THE John L. Curran Lower Reservoir in...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Jun 19, 2020 | Spring 2020
Call Me Climate Refugee How Moby-Dick's Ishmael Represents a Culture Soon To Be a Stateless Republic By Richard J. King, author of Ahab’s Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby-Dick | Illustrations by Rockwell Kent At the end of the novel Moby-Dick, the infamous white...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Jun 19, 2020 | Spring 2020
Architecture for the Birds, the Bees, and the Rising Seas INSTALLATION IN TOUISSET REFUGE PROVIDES ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION, ECOLOGICAL HABITAT By Monica Allard Cox | Photographs by Dana Smith Architect and landscape designer Leonard Yui created “ecological...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Jun 17, 2020 | Spring 2020
The Birth of Ocean Science in Rhode Island By Stephen Hale | Illustrations by H.A.Ogden, courtesy of Harvard University Alexander Agassiz in 1896. Agassiz launched the first Rhode Island marine lab in 1877. Photograph courtesy of the Museum of Comparative Zoology...
