URI students win award for plan to protect port

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – University of Rhode Island students have won a state award for their proposal to protect the Port of Galilee from rising sea levels caused by climate change, URI announced Nov. 16.

The R.I. chapter of the American Planning Association selected “Galilee: A Vision for a Resilient Port” as the winner in the student category.

Landscape architecture, environmental science and management, and marine-affairs students contributed to the report, which was prepared by William A. Green, a professor in URI’s Landscape Department, and Austin Becker, assistant professor of Coastal Planning, Policy and Design at URI, among others.

Students responded to concerns sea levels will rise 3-5 feet in Rhode Island by 2100.

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Projects ranged from constructing floating buildings and a living breakwater system, to installing walking paths through wetlands and rebuilding the dunes at Salty Brine State Beach. •

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