Narragansett Bay is Rhode Island’s most precious natural resource. Since
2007, Rhode Island NSF EPSCoR has been building research infrastructure
across the state to better understand the bay’s ecosystems. Now, through
a $19 million National Science Foundation grant and a matching $3.9
million from the State of Rhode Island, we take the latest step with the
Rhode Island Consortium for Coastal Ecology Assessment, Innovation
and Modeling—a project fostering new collaborations that bridge
fundamental and applied research across eight Rhode Island institutions.