by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Aug 29, 2018 | Summer 2018
A Lifetime Under the Waves THE WORD “LAB” may suggest white coats, microscopes, and petri dishes. But for Jon Witman and the members of his lab at Brown University, the word has a completely different—and wetter—connotation. The group of 10 spends much of...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Aug 29, 2018 | Summer 2018
Drilling Down | The Limits of Life Below the Seafloor IT USED TO BE ASSUMED THAT DIRECT SUNLIGHT WAS NECESSARY to sustain all major forms of life on Earth. That was until 7-foot tube worms, giant white clams, eyeless shrimp, and many other creatures were discovered to...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Aug 29, 2018 | Summer 2018
Discovery in the Dark | Testing the Limits of Technology and Funding BEFORE THERE WERE SATELLITES, THERE WERE SUBMERSIBLES, and before that, sextants, and before that, sticks. The Marshall Islands consist of 29 atolls, scattered over 180,000 nautical miles in the...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Aug 29, 2018 | Summer 2018
Endeavor | Fantastic Voyages Near End IT HAS CRUISED THE WORLD’S OCEANS FOR 42 YEARS—more than a million nautical miles from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific and from the Arctic to the Black Sea—and now is nearing retirement. But the R/V Endeavor is still...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Aug 29, 2018 | Summer 2018
Diving Deep For New Drug Therapies HUMANS HAVE RELIED ON A VARIETY OF NATURAL COMPOUNDS from plants, fungi, and other organisms for their medicinal properties for many thousands of years. The search for new medicines to treat diseases has long relied on these natural...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Aug 28, 2018 | Summer 2018
Polymer Tides | Shared Inspiration at the Shoreline The Rhode Island shoreline has inspired generations of artists—you can scarcely browse an art fair anywhere in the state without seeing evidence of it—but where many are moved to paint watercolors of lighthouses or...
