PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The University of Rhode Island plans to deploy an array of instruments in Narragansett Bay for a new effort to monitor and predict the bay’s health as the environment changes.
URI is partnering with researchers from seven other institutions in the state.
They’ll use state-of-the-art sensors and water sampling technologies to quantify chemical compounds and marine organisms. The project, the Narragansett Bay Observatory, is funded with money from the National Science Foundation and the Rhode Island Science and Technology Advisory Council.
Lewis Rothstein, a URI oceanography professor, says the bay’s health needs to be better understood in the face of natural and human stressors.
The oceanographic instruments will be deployed in November in three locations.
The data will be posted online at the Rhode Island Data Discovery Center.
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