by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Jun 19, 2020 | Spring 2020
Cage Fight OYSTER FARMERS FACE OFF AGAINST OBJECTORS TO THEIR EXPANSION PLANS By Ellen Liberman | Photographs by Jesse Burke THERE IS PEACE ON THE POND. The winter sun spreads its milky light on the water and its warmth on the faces of Jennifer Scappatura and her...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Jun 19, 2020 | Spring 2020
Green Grab Cuisine A CULINARY SOLUTION TO INVASIVE SPECIES By Todd McLeish | Photographs by Marianne Lee WHEN CATHERINE PUCKETT WORKED FOR THE BLOCK ISLAND SHELLFISH COMMISSION in the early 2000s, part of the island’s shellfish management plan involved trapping and...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Jun 19, 2020 | Spring 2020
Climate Migrants Altering Marine Communities WARMING WATERS WELCOME NEW SPECIES FURTHER NORTH By Todd McLeish | Photographs by Jesse Burke As Heather Kinney zigzagged across upper Narragansett Bay in her Nature Conservancy work-boat last fall, she stopped at 12 sites...
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...
