by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Dec 13, 2019 | Fall 2019
Unsafe Harbor “I DON’T THINK ANYTHING WILL HAPPEN UNTIL THERE’S A MAJOR ISSUE.” By Cathy Shufro Photographs by Michael Salerno A yellow-and-gray crane towers above a hill of salt on the ProvPort pier. This late-March delivery from Egypt constitutes...
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 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...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Mar 24, 2015 | Winter 2015
Preparing Ports to Ride Out the Storm DEVASTATION FROM SUPERSTORM SANDY IN 2012 is still visible along the New Jersey shore, where thousands of houses were swept away or damaged, and it will be years before the destruction is no longer visible. The Port of New York...
