Thank you to our advisors for their numerous contributions:
RINHS 
Board of Advisors, 2011 – 2012
David H. Abedon, Professor, URI Department of Natural Resources Science
David Blockstein, National Council for Science & the Environment
David Clayton, Naturalist, Photographer
Rick Enser, Biologist, RIDEM Natural Heritage Program, Retired
Lisa Gould, Botanist, Naturalist
Roger Greene, Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Retired
Stephen S. Hale, US EPA Atlantic Ecology Division
Thomas P. Husband, URI Department of Natural Resources Science
Christopher H. Little, Esq., Little Medeiros Kinder Bulman & Whitney P.C.
Douglass H. Morse, Brown University, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Candace A. Oviatt, Professor, URI Graduate School of Oceanography
John F. Paul, US Environmental Protection Agency
J. Christopher Powell, Jamestown Conservation Commission
Chris Raithel, Biologist, RIDEM Division of Fish & Wildlife
Kenneth Raposa, Research Coordinator, Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve
Julie Sharpe, Member at Large
Linda Steere, Principal, Applied Bio-Systems, Inc.
Lawrence Taft, Executive Director, Audubon Society of Rhode Island
Charlie Vandemoer, Refuge Manager, Rhode Island National Wildlife Refuge Complex
Martine Villalard-Bohnsack, Faculty Emeritus, Roger Williams University, Department of Biology