by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Jul 18, 2016 | Summer 2016
Book Review: The Narrow Edge If Tierra del Fuego isn’t the end of the earth, it’s pretty close. The desolate landscape that comprises the southernmost tip of South America has no ports for visiting cruise ships; there are no tourist areas with merchants selling their...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Jul 18, 2016 | Summer 2016
Reviving Rhode Island’s Urban Coast FOR 200 YEARS, MUCH OF RHODE ISLAND’S URBAN waterfront was the realm of industry. Manufacturing plants, shipping ports, and acres of “tank farms”—land dotted with massive oil tanks—lined the shores of upper Narragansett Bay....
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Jul 18, 2016 | Summer 2016
New Hope for Urban Waterways A 10-FOOT ALUMINUM BOAT SLIDES OUT OF ITS dock at the Narragansett Boat Club and onto the Seekonk River. Nestled in the rocks below the surface is a large population of mussels and oysters. The December skies hold a mixture of sun and...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Jul 14, 2016 | Summer 2016
The One-Man Wake-Up Call ON A GRAY, DANK DAY IN EARLY DECEMBER, THE office of Mike Keyworth at Brewer Cove Haven Marina in Barrington is an inviting retreat. Outside, it’s all hustle and hurry. Power and sailboats are being winterized, the shrink wrap’s coming on, the...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Jul 11, 2016 | Summer 2016
Tell Me a Story | Landscape Architecture Students Take on Oakland Beach The University of Rhode Island junior landscape architecture class was turned loose on Oakland Beach, Warwick, to come up with “green” designs to help the area increase its resilience to storms...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Jul 11, 2016 | Summer 2016
One Man’s Treasure : Uncovering Rhode Island’s Largest Ship Graveyard What was long thought to be an unsightly debris field off the East Providence shoreline has, thanks to one dogged marine archaeologist, been discovered to be the largest collection of scuttled...
