by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Jun 21, 2021 | Spring/Summer 2021
Whaling Captains of Color America's First Meritocracy By Skip Finley By Monica Allard Cox Whaling was not a profession most crew members would choose if they had better options. Skip Finley paints a harrowing picture of whaling and how its very nature—dangerous,...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Dec 13, 2019 | Fall 2019
Dispatches from the New American Shore by Monica Allard Cox From the 18th century on, everyone from farmers to city leaders to railroad barons filled in millions of acres of wetlands across the U.S., often with federal government support. In 1977, President...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Feb 6, 2017 | Winter 2017
Book Review: Other Minds Search YouTube for terms like octopus or cuttlefish—members of the class of cephalopods—and typical results fall into two categories. The first reflects the intelligence of the cephalopod (“Octopus Escapes Jar”), the second, its camouflage...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Nov 23, 2015 | Fall 2015
Book Review: The Devil’s Cormorant The cormorant’s reputation is, if nothing else, complicated. They are revered in Japan, where fishermen have used the birds under imperial protection for hundreds of years. They are reviled in Henderson Harbor, N.Y., where...
