Please fill out this form to register for Hillel's Sweet Tzedakah Treats on Thursday, April 10 at 5 pm at a campus Dorm!Bake cookies or brownies to enjoy and to donate to our local homeless shelter the McCauley House and Help the Homeless, RI. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1-ckTLub-U-DbdISTUG4ezR8CaC_AY1BA03RYU9qXbV4/editVisit URInvolved for complete event details.

The Department of English and Creative writing is partnering with The Department of Modern and Classical Languages to present a symposium entitled: Literary Culture, Translation, and the Other. This event will take place on Wednesday April 9th and Thursday April 10th on the third floor of the URI Library in the Galanti Lounge.The event will feature a panel discussion, poetry readings, and a keynote presentation by distinguished translators, poets, and professors from URI and abroad. We will also announce the winner of the Knowles Poetry Prize during day two of the event. The full event program can be accessed HERE.

An Award Ceremony for Pink Women to celebrate their accomplishVisit URInvolved for complete event details.

Students of Dr. Jonathan Amon's classical saxophone studio and John McKenna's jazz saxophone studio present a one hour showcase of music for saxophone in solo settings and in ensembles.

Title: Assessing Marine-Sourced Sediment Supply and Its Influence on Salt Marsh Resilience to Sea Level Rise Using Satellite ObservationsSpeaker: Wenxiu Teng, PhD Candidate, UMass AmherstAbstract: Suspended sediment delivery is a key driver in the formation and maintenance of muddy coastal landscapes such as river deltas, mudflats, and tidal wetlands. While the critical role of riverine sediment in supporting tidal marsh resilience has been widely recognized, many marshes globally receive limited fluvial input. In these systems, marine-sourced sediments, delivered by waves and tides, may provide a crucial sediment supply that enhances marsh accretion and resilience to relative sea level rise. Directly measuring sediment dynamics in energetic coastal zones is challenging, and traditional satellite ocean color products, with coarse spatial resolution (~1 km), are insufficient for resolving nearshore processes at fine spatial scales. As a result, the contribution of marine sediments to marsh resilience has been underexplored. To fill this gap, this study: 1. Develops a particle composition-adaptive algorithm for high spatial resolution mapping of suspended sediments in global coastal waters using satellite observations; 2. Examines the role of marine-sourced sediment in supporting tidal marsh resilience across the Northeastern United States; 3. Analyzes global trends in coastal sediment availability and their implications for marsh vulnerability under accelerating sea level rise. Our results demonstrate the potential of satellite remote sensing to fill observational gaps and reveal the overlooked importance of marine sediment supply in maintaining tidal marsh resilience to sea level rise. This work provides new insights into sediment-driven marsh sustainability and offers a scalable approach to inform coastal restoration and climate adaptation efforts.

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