Rhode Island’s environmental monitoring programs represent the best efforts of state and federal agencies and other organizations to collect reliable data on an on-going basis to fulfill the state’s mandates, but there are still monitoring “gaps” and capacity constraints in…
About Monitoring
As identified in prior RIEMC reports, environmental monitoring in Rhode Island is increasingly challenged by resource constraints and funding uncertainties. Rhode Island relies heavily on state and federal agencies to fund environmental monitoring, and, over time, cutbacks in available funds…
About Monitoring
Environmental monitoring is essential to the effective management of our natural systems and allows us to quantitatively observe how the ecosystems in and around Narragansett Bay change over time. Systematic, long-term monitoring often provides the first warning when our environment…
About Monitoring
Environmental monitoring is observation of any aspect of the environment, including its physical, biological, and chemical characteristics. The data obtained through monitoring takes many forms including quantitative measurements such as observational counts (e.g. number of individuals of a particular species)…