Scientists

This alliance, organized through the Pew Charitable Trusts, is "a coalition of 109 organizations representing every coastal Atlantic state from Maine to North Carolina, to advocate for catch limits that account for the needs of predators, measures to reduce bycatch, and protections of critical feeding areas for predator fish, seabirds, and other marine wildlife from the impacts of the industrial herring fishery."

From the Pew Charitable Trusts website, August 14, 2018.

Rhode Island organizations involved are listed below.

The RI Park Naturalist program runs the Beavertail Aquarium, which is housed in what was the foghorn house for the Beavertail Lighthouse.  The tanks in the aquarium are set up to imitate the environment of the Jamestown shoreline.  From crabs to fish and shellfish, there's always something new to discover at the aquarium.  Staff collect samples of marine life for the aquarium and return them to their natural habitat after a couple of weeks. They also facilitate tidal pool explorations along the shore at low tide, and host special events such as Bioluminescence Night.

"The Rhode Island Environmental Monitoring Collaborative (RIEMC) was statutorily established to coordinate environmental monitoring strategies among a broad range of partners as well as to identify state monitoring priorities. The RIEMC brings together stakeholders from executive agencies, university-based programs, non-governmental organizations, and others to enhance coordination and collaboration." Read more.

- From the website, August 2, 2018

RI C-AIM aka RI Collaboration for Coastal Ecology Assessment, Innovation, and Modeling

This is a program of the New England Wild Flower Society, a collaboration of professional and amateur botanists, state agencies, and conservation organizations in each New England State. Their goal is to conserve the region's endangered native flora.

Training for the field season is in February or March each year.

Phone: 401.680.7221