IT IS WITH SADNESS that Rhode Island Sea Grant notes the passing of one of its heroes, former Sen. Claiborne Pell, a founder of the National Sea Grant College Program and an ardent supporter of Rhode Island Sea Grant as one of our nation’s first Sea Grant programs, and its hosts, the Graduate School of Oceanography and the University of Rhode Island. On May 2, 1966, Senator Pell spoke to his Senate colleagues about the idea of establishing “Sea Grant Colleges” modeled after the successful Land Grant colleges, touting the idea as a way to use ocean resources in a...
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