Natural Resources
To provide a biological and social science base
for management of local woodlands, open spaces, and water resources.
Water
Quality Program
Take the results of recent research and successful strategies for pollution
control, make it available to those who need it, and apply it to solve
water quality problems facing Rhode Islanders. That is the focus of the
University of Rhode Island's Cooperative Extension Water Quality Program.
Educational Training Programs, publications, and events are designed to
protect and improve the State's water quality - from its groundwater supplies,
drinking water reservoirs, lakes, rivers, and streams, to swimming beaches
and shellfishing areas in and around Narragansett Bay and Block Island
Sound.
Environmental
Data Center
The Environmental Data Center (EDC) is a geographic information system
(GIS) laboratory in the URI Department of Natural Resources Science, College
of the Environment and Life Sciences. The mission of the EDC is to
support the use of contemporary tools of spatial data processing in the
analysis of environmental data. This is achieved through collaborative
research with faculty in the Department of Natural Resources Science and
projects with agencies external to URI. The EDC is the center of technical
expertise in GIS for the state of Rhode Island. The Rhode
Island Geographic Information Systems (RIGIS) database is stored at
the EDC. The RIGIS database is the most comprehensive and detailed of
any state in the country and contains information on almost all aspects
of Rhode Island's natural and cultural resources (e.g., wetlands, aquifers,
soils, forests, land use, topography, historic sites, etc.). Major areas
of research at the EDC are spatial data modeling, ecological mapping,
and data integration for environmental applications.
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