Day 1:
• Settle into accommodations at University Rhode Island, Kingston Campus
• Tour the Matunuck Oyster Farm
• Meet with a professional birder at Ninigret National Wildlife Refuge
• Dinner at Narragansett Pier
• Visit Hazard Rocks & learn about the local geologic history
Days 2:
• Visit Mystic Aquarium
• Enjoy an afternoon in Old Mystic Village
• Hike and swim at Ell Pond
• Dinner at Tony’s Pizza
Days 3:
• Trawling with the URI Graduate School Of Oceanography
• Explore the rocky intertidal on a guided Marine Ecology Walk
• Dinner at Champlin’s in Galilee
Day 4:
• Visit the Naval Underwater War College to learn how marine biologists evaluate the effects of sonar technology on marine mammals.
• Tour the NOAA ship Henry B. Bigelow.
• Enjoy lunch at The Black Pearl & shopping in The Brick Marketplace
• Hike the Newport Mansions Cliff Walk
• Dinner in Jamestown
Day 5:
• Charter a sailboat in Newport
• Evening flight to RDU, NC
Educational Field Studies 