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...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Mar 2, 2022 | Fall/Winter22
Community Upraising How a devastating fire rallied neighbors around Wickford Shipyard By Elaine Lembo| Photographs by Jesse Burke Every turn along the waterfront of colonial Wickford Village takes the observer to another symbol of endurance: From church spire to...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Mar 2, 2022 | Fall/Winter22
Saving an Endangered Species and Iconic Fishery By Meredith Haas| Contributions from Hugh Markey The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Escanaba was transiting through Cape Cod Bay, seemingly alone, on a calm and cloudy day in late summer 2011. It was mid-day when a dark head...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Mar 2, 2022 | Fall/Winter22
Moving On Up Rising Water in Warren Prompts Redevelopment and Relocation Plans By Annie Sherman Floodwaters inundate Market Street during a king tide. Photograph by Janet Freedman The second smallest town in the smallest state in the country has a big problem: water....
