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Thank you for visiting the Rhode Island beach monitoring website.  If you have questions about the website, the beach profile data or would like to access the data for your own research interests, please contact URI Professor J.P. Walsh (jpwalsh@uri.edu) in the Graduate School of Oceanography.  

Acknowledgments 

The data featured on this website was collected by countless students, staff and faculty, and this research is supported by the URI Graduate School of Oceanography (GSO), the URI Department of Geosciences and the RI Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC).   You can learn more on the beach survey History page.  This website and associated tools were developed by Mark Klimasewiski (URI GSO) and J.P. Walsh (URI GSO) in consultation with Nate Vinhateiro (URI Coastal Institute), Bryan Oakley (Eastern Connecticul State University), Mike Bradley (URI Environmental Data Center), Chuck Labash (URI EDC), Chris Daman (URI EDC), and Emily Hall (CRMC).  Thanks to recent beach survey students, Zachary Levitan (photo above) and Kathryn Staebler, who assisted with data organization, field photograms and draft text.  The creation of this website was supported by a grant from the State of Rhode Island's Executive Climate Change Coordinating Council (EC4).