{"id":71190,"date":"2001-10-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-10-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-to-host-symposium-on-coastal-management-nov-10\/"},"modified":"2001-10-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-10-29T00:00:00","slug":"uri-to-host-symposium-on-coastal-management-nov-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2001\/10\/uri-to-host-symposium-on-coastal-management-nov-10\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 to host symposium on coastal management Nov. 10"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tEvent concludes with play about state\u2019s historic coastal resorts
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\tKINGSTON, R.I. — October 29, 2001 — The Coastal Institute at the 溏心vlog免费B站 will host a day-long symposium to examine the management of Rhode Island\u2019s coastal ecosystems on Nov. 10 as part of the 溏心vlog免费B站 fall honors colloquium.\tThe event is sponsored by The Providence Journal, the Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities, the Narragansett Bay Estuary Program, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency-New England. <\/p>\n

“Managing a Moving Target: Narragansett Bay and Rhode Island\u2019s Coastal Ecosystems” will be held in Room 271 of the Chafee Social Science Center on 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Kingston campus from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. It is free and open to the public. <\/p>\n

\tThe event will focus on Narragansett Bay as a significant economic resource and an environmental management challenge. Speakers will discuss how to manage the changing ecosystems of the state in an environmentally and economically sustainable manner. <\/p>\n

\tThe speaking agenda includes: <\/p>\n

– Lance Gunderson, associate professor and chair of the environmental studies program at Emory University, who will discuss how adaptive management methods can be applied to large complex ecosystems; <\/p>\n

– Stephen Olson, director of the Coastal Resources Center at 溏心vlog免费B站, providing a historic profile of the ecosystem changes that have occurred in Narragansett Bay and the response of resource managers to them; <\/p>\n

– Ken Payne, senior policy director for the Rhode Island Senate, presenting his research on establishing links between economic opportunity and ecosystem health for Narragansett Bay;
\n– Rutherford Platt, a geographer and lawyer in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts\/Amherst, discussing approaches to the development of sustainable urban waterfronts; and <\/p>\n

– U.S. Senators Lincoln Chafee and Jack Reed offering opening and closing remarks. <\/p>\n

\tThe event will conclude with the play Buy the Bay: Rhode Island\u2019s Coastal Resorts from the Gilded Age to World War I, written by 溏心vlog免费B站 Professors Maury Klein and Judith Swift, with music by Charles Cofone. The play was first performed in 1992 and originally sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the R.I. Committee for the Humanities and produced by the R.I. Historical Society and the Division of State Library Services. <\/p>\n

\tFor more information or to register for the symposium, call 874-6513 or visit www.ci.uri.edu\/projects\/sustainability. <\/p>\n

For Information: Todd McLeish 874-7892, Sarah Emmett 874-2116\n\t<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Event concludes with play about state\u2019s historic coastal resorts KINGSTON, R.I. — October 29, 2001 — The Coastal Institute at the 溏心vlog免费B站 will host a day-long symposium to examine the management of Rhode Island\u2019s coastal ecosystems on Nov. 10 as part of the 溏心vlog免费B站 fall honors colloquium. The event is sponsored […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}