The 2022 RIMFI Fall meeting, open to all, will be held on Dec 1st at the URI Graduate School of Oceanography Bay Campus in Narragansett, R.I. A virtual attendance option is also available via Zoom. This meeting will feature presentations on benthic ecology research being done in Narragansett Bay and the surrounding region.

Abbreviated agenda:

1. Welcome (C. McManus)

2. Response of benthic communities in Narragansett Bay to changing temperature and nitrogen input (S. Harkins)

3. Hard clam (Mercenaria mercenaria) response to a warming Narragansett Bay (M. Potter)

4. Early life history of American lobsters (Homarus americanus) in coastal southern New England waters (D. McCormick)

5. Assessing blue crabs (Callinectes sapidus) in Rhode Island state waters (K. Rodrigue)

6. Closing remarks (J. Collie)

For more information on the Rhode Island Marine Fisheries Institute, please visit http://web.uri.edu/rimfi.