Lisa Lofland Gould Native Plant Program, November 23, 3 p.m., Gaige Hall, RI College, socializing and refreshments before and after. Come learn about Rhode Island's new Plant Insect Community Network, featuring Ocean Hour Farm and rapid fire updates from pollinator and native plant projects around the state. Register here.
Winter Open House and Art Exhibit Opening—Tuesday, January 28, 2025, 5:30 p.m. (weather date Jan. 29). Join fellow naturalists and celebrate the long-standing collaboration between art and natural history.
Due to calendrical weirdness, the next Last Wednesday Tea isn't until January 29, 2025.
Members received the fall issue of the RI Naturalist already. If you haven't already received it, the public can now get the Fall 2024 RI Naturalist here. Get your RI Naturalist early, become a member and support community-based environmental science at the same time!
Thank you to all who celebrated the Survey's 30th birthday together at the Gala, which was held Saturday, November 16. It was a lot of fun. Congratulations to the award recipients and to the successful rafflers and silent auction bidders. Thank you, all, for supporting community based environmental science for Rhode Island.
Back issues of the Rhode Island Naturalist, the Survey's bulletin, is available here.
by Robert D. Kenney Three of the previous installments in this Marine Mammals of Rhode Island series have been about seals that occur in our region—harbor seals, harp seals, and gray seals. Gray seals were also the subject of an article in the Fall 2022… Continue reading
In 2021, the Survey managed to expand in a number of directions despite the challenges of the continuing pandemic. If you missed the Survey’s 2022 annual meeting, which was held online on April 7, you can still catch up on all the news, including the finance report, nominating committee report, and program report, by taking a look at this PDF of the 2022 annual meeting slideshow that was shown that night.