It's safe to say Rhode Islanders have a symbiotic relationship with Narragansett Bay. Its status as New England's tidal estuary helps define Rhode Island as the Ocean State. For hundreds of years, ...

Narragansett Bay is one of the most studied estuaries in the world, and its long-running URI plankton survey offers important historical context for the past half-century in the bay. Recent analysis ...

URI researchers estimate that in Narragansett Bay, the level of tiny plantlike creatures called phytoplankton has dropped by half in the last half century, based on new analysis of a long-term time ...