The University of Rhode Island will be a part of a group of 21 scientists from across six colleges that are looking to develop a coastal resilie...
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The schools participating in the research are Brown University, URI, Rhode Island College, the University of New Hampshire, Gulf of Maine Research Institute and the Northeastern Regional Association of Coastal Ocean Observing Systems.
Grant funding begins in September. The project is being funded through a $6 million National Science Foundation Grant. It runs over the course of five years — with the fifth year acting as a no-cost extension.
The project’s Executive Director, Sarah Lummis, and Brown’s Emanuele Di Lorenzo, a professor of Department of Earth, Environment and Planetary Sciences, will lead the charge.
Lummis said the grant runs out of Brown, but URI acts as one of the official subcontractor and key collaborators.
URI also works with the Department of Homeland Security’s Coastal Resilience Center of Excellence Projects at the University of North Carolina.
The intention of the grant is to fund a solution that combats sea level rise, and work that is community driven. This includes speaking with affected communities and tailor research to their concerns.
“This grant feels timely,” Lummis said. “In Rhode Island, specifically, there are coastal communities that are experiencing impacts from climate change … It’s something that already feels necessary and something that’s impacting communities already. It’s something that we’re hoping to steer away from effects being too extreme.”
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