by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Dec 13, 2019 | Fall 2019
Following the Fish Rhode Island Fishing Fleet Adapts to Species Shift By Annie ShermanTitle Photograph by Meredith Haas Black sea bass, once more common in the mid-Atlantic than off the coast of New England, has surged northward over the last 10 years to flood...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Feb 6, 2018 | Winter 2018
Geology in Motion Surfing in Rhode Island By Meredith Haas | Photographs by Jesse Burke Surfing in New England often means donning thick, hooded wetsuits, navigating the occasional snow-covered beach, and avoiding rocks—conditions that explain why surfing here was...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Feb 6, 2018 | Winter 2018
A Military History of Narragansett Bay Narragansett Bay is a gift of the glaciers, which over millions of years left behind a 30-mile long, 102 square-mile navigable waterway, one of the finest deep-water ports on the East Coast. John King, University of Rhode Island...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Feb 6, 2018 | Winter 2018
The Landscape of the Sea Have you ever stopped to consider that in the pantheon of historic milestones of Rhode Island, there is one event that rises above all others? Moreover, that it underscores the significance of the natural attributes of the Ocean State and its...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Feb 6, 2018 | Winter 2018
Providence: City on a Fill Water was the lifeline for every settlement in early America. However, as villages grew into towns and then cities, some found themselves squeezed into a space that led them to expand by pushing back the sea through a process that...
