“Rising seas and more intense storms are challenging southern New England’s shoreline, coastal homes and infrastructure.”

Check out this ecoRI.org article within which Frank Carini examines the latest information on sea level rise, storm surges, and other coastal issues challenging Rhode Island. As RI’s coastal municipalities struggle with the changing shoreline, the importance of URI research and the Beach SAMP is becoming more apparent.

The Rhode Island Shoreline Change Special Area Management Plan (Beach SAMP) was created in the past few years to bring state, federal, municipal, academic and private-sector interests together to create a management plan to help communities adapt to short-term and long-term shoreline change. University of Rhode Island researchers are studying key areas to understand how the coast has changed, what it may look like in the future and what infrastructure is at risk.

Read the full article at ecoRI.org.