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- SAMP Sets Standard for Ocean Mapping Marine Technology, Mar 2013 #43
One of the jewels in Rhode Island’s marine crown is the Rhode Island Ocean Special Area Management Plan (SAMP), a ground-breaking, standard-setting and nationally lauded approach to ocean management with a focus on renewable energy. Faced with increasing pressure on ocean resources from offshore energy, aquaculture, liquefied gas, resource extraction and shipping traffic, Rhode Island officials realized they needed a way balance environmental protections with economic development in order to better manage ocean resources. “Planning for offshore wind is a better strategy than waiting for it to happen,” said ASA Science co-founder and Professor Emeritus Malcolm Spaulding, who co-led the URI team working on the SAMP. More than just a map, the resulting Ocean SAMP is a regulatory and ecosystem-based ocean management and planning tool that has been held up by both President Obama’s Ocean Policy Task Force and the Secretary of the Interior as a national model for other states to adopt.
The two-year, $8 million project utilized a mountain of ecological, atmospheric and marine data coupled with marine spatial planning techniques to create a gridded map of the sea floor in an area that extended 30 miles off the coast of Rhode Island and encompassed a 1500-square-mile area in and around RI, in state and federal waters. The resulting SAMP provides the state with a master plan for protecting resources, promoting economic growth and designating appropriate areas in state and federal waters for siting wind farms. It is the first state to zone its offshore waters for a range of uses and activities. Extending the study into federal waters smartly extended “federal consistency” requirements 30 miles off shore, said Grover Fugate, director of Rhode Island’s Coastal Management Resources Management Council (CMRMC), which is charged with developing and implementing SAMPS, as well as issuing permits for any activities in tidal waters. It also may have sped up the auctioning of wind energy leases since the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management decided to adopt the state’s suggestion for the best wind energy areas in area federal waters and then moved to set auction dates.
Led by Fugate, the project involved a minimum of 40-50 scientists and researchers between The University of Rhode Island (URI) and Rodger Williams University, along with contributors from other government agencies. Research conducted by URI provided most of the data, looking at everything from viewscapes, historical sites, marine mammals, plant life, sediment, ocean engineering, wind speeds, current and wave data , shipping lanes, fish distribution, wildlife and avian habitats, even areas of interest to Native American tribes.
“Marine spatial planning has to take into account all the different aspects of the marine environment, from fisheries, to military, commercial, to marine mammals and birds. You name it, it has to be taken into consideration. Rhode Island has set the precedent, and set the standard for the rest of the world, said Prof. Dwight Coleman, a marine research scientist at URI’s Graduate School of Oceanography.
One of the SAMP’s most critical contributions in the renewable energy space has less to do with mapping than time, observes Spaulding. It not only provides other states with a time-saving model, it will save developers years of costly permitting work, and potential battles, he said, thereby cutting costs and speeding up the approval process. As a cautionary tale, he pointed to Cape Wind. “They spent $35 million to $40 million and no turbines moving. They ran into a whole series of issues related to siting.” Conversely, when Deepwater applied for its siting permit in Rhode Island waters, because it based its plan on the recommendation of the SAMP, “they didn’t have to argue about ‘why that location?’ The SAMP took all that uncertainty away.”
(As published in the March 2013 edition of Marine Technologies - www.seadiscovery.com)
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- In Rhode Island, the Future is Blowing in the Wind Marine Technology, Mar 2013 #44
option. “From an economic development point of view, Quonset, by any metrics is an ideal port from which to support offshore wind development,” said Malcolm Spaulding, co-founder of South Kingston, R.I.-based ASA Sciences and URI Professor Emeritus of Ocean Engineering. “The biggest competition to supporting
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- NUWC Courting Industry Marine Technology, Mar 2013 #36
technology, it’s NUWC and everyone affiliated with it. The Rhode Island high-tech industry is NUWC actually, and the industry spinoffs,” says Malcolm Spaulding, co-founder of South Kingston, R.I. based ASA Sciences and Professor Emeritus of Ocean Engineering at the University of Rhode Island. “Contractors
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October 2023 - Marine News page: 39Green Tech Electri? cation num superstructure and capacity for up to 28 cars. “We have additional funding to help us reach the ? nal Bidding shipyards are required to submit their propos- amount needed from sources such as ferry ticket sales, als by December 4, 2023. The engineer’s estimate range grant
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May 2020 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 38INTERVIEW John Waterhouse, elliott Bay Design group deliberately focus on knowledge transfer between our senior engineers and new generation of engineers through internal training and seminars, as well as getting them in the field together. For the maritime industry as a whole, the transfer of that
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May 2020 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 35INTERVIEW John Waterhouse, elliott Bay Design group @ EBDG “Be Bold in Thinking but Cautious in Application” John Waterhouse is a ubiquitous character in the U.S. maritime industry, a deep-thinker, a signature bow tie and more than three decades of naval architecture and marine engineering experience
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May 2020 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 6Editorial MARITIME REPORTER AND ENGINEERING NEWS M a R I N E l I N K . C o M HQ 118 E. 25th St., 2nd Floor New york, Ny 10010 USa T +1 212 477 6700; F +1 212 254 6271 Fl offce 215 NW 3rd St Boynton Beach, Fl 33435-4009 T +1 561 732 4368; F +1 561 732 6984 Publisher @ShipNews John C. o’Malley jomalley@mari
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March 2020 - Marine News page: 57PEOPLE & COMPANY NEWS Høll Robert J. Alario Distinguished Achievement Award Madely Duthu Alario served OMSA as President for 16 years between 1988 and 2004, and also served a six-year term as Chair- man of the OMSA Board of Direc- tors. He is currently the Managing Member of marine management consulting
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September 2019 - Marine News page: 53PEOPLE & COMPANY NEWS HII Crowley AAPA Fields Collins Saetre Menoyo Sabbatini Sutton Connor Spaulding NagleWieland MBA from American Intercontinen- ty, security and environment (HSSE) HII Announces tal University. Spaulding will oversee and operations integrity for the com- Leadership Changes
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September 2019 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 51Kim Pedersen and Lars Duhn. Cadmatic ME Production CADMATIC CEO Jukka Rantala (left) and Kymdata CEO Jyrki Metsola. ing divisions. Premo Sabbatini has been promoted to vice president of central planning and process excellence at Ingalls Shipbuilding. He succeeds Rick Spaulding, who has accepted a
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July 2018 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 42VSAT Migration Shipowners who want to get the value out of data, applications and smarter shipping have realized that VSAT is the new L-Band, says Malcolm McMaster At Globecomm we spend as much time exotic notions, provision of such infor- ment services are all further increasing dent. It’s critical
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Sep/Oct 2017 - Maritime Logistics Professional page: 21is a Certifed Port Executive, Certi- Port of San Diego, California’s fourth-largest cargo port and fed Six Sigma Green Belt, Board of Examiners - Malcolm one of the State’s largest public land developers with a portfo- Baldrige, and the recipient of the Examiner of the Year by the lio encompassing
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May 2016 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 64was made by the Australian PM the two-stroke engine on board, the Lin- marine fuel is a very promising option Lines (MOL). Waterfront is a wholly- Hon. Malcolm Turnbull, the Minister danger can run on methanol, fuel oil, to enable owners to reduce the environ- owned subsidiary of Methanex Corp, for Defense
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August 2016 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 120of containerized cargo by world’s largest shipowners initiated a Law Association annual meeting, an ex- will address current solutions and peer Malcolm McLean in 1956. program of methodically collecting and ecutive from Munich Re stated that the into the future of ship technology. You In June
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March 2015 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 70. Peder Sortland as its ? rst CEO. Bilbe, who have worked with JRC and manager of Victoria Shipyards Co. Ltd., Alphatron Marine for over a decade. Malcolm Barker, will retire Spring 2015, Keith Named VP at Tesla Offshore Murray to Lead Thuraya’s following more than 21 years with the Tesla Offshore
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May 15, 1977 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 49BUYERS DIRECTORY AIR CONDITIONING AND REFRIGERATION-REPAIR & INSTALLATION Bailey Refrigeration Co., Inc., 74 Sullivan St., Brooklyn, N.Y. 11231 Nance Industries, P.O. Box 1547, Beaumont, Texas 77704 Stal-Laval, Inc., 400 Executive Blvd., Elmsford, N.Y. 19523 Way-Wolff Associates Inc., 45-10
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August 1977 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 43BUYERS DIRECTORY AIR CONDITIONING AND REFRIGERATION-REPAIR & INSTALLATION Bailey Refrigeration Co., Inc., 74 Sullivan St., Brooklyn, N.Y. 11231 Nance Industries, P.O. Box 1547, Beaumont, Texas 77704 Stal-Laval, Inc., 400 Executive Blvd., Elmsford, N.Y. 19523 Way-Wolff Associates Inc., 45-10
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September 1977 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 61BUYERS DIRECTORY AIR CONDITIONING AND REFRIGERATION-REPAIR & INSTALLATION Bailey Refrigeration Co., Inc., 74 Sullivan St., Brooklyn, N.Y. 11231 Nance Industries, P.O. Box 1547, Beaumont, Texas 77704 Stal-Laval, Inc., 400 Executive Blvd., Elmsford, N.Y. 19523 Way-Wolff Associates Inc., 45-10
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September 1977 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 44Professional R.P. DEVOLUY, CH. E. CONSULTANT COATINGS, CORROSION, FOULING BOX 63 DARIEN, CONN. 06820 203/655-2840 Accredited Corrosion Specialist M. MACK EARLE, P. E. COMPLETE MARINE ARCHITECTURAL SERVICE 103 Mellor Avenue 301/747-4744 BALTIMORE, MARYLAND 21228 PARKER C. EMERSON &
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October 15, 1977 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 59BUYERS DIRECTORY AIR CONDITIONING AND REFRIGERATION-REPAIR & INSTALLATION Bailey Refrigeration Co., Inc., 74 Sullivan St., Brooklyn, N.Y. 11231 Nance Industries, P.O. Box 1547, Beaumont, Texas 77704 Stal-Laval, Inc., 400 Executive Blvd., Elmsford, N.Y. 19523 Way-Wolff Associates Inc., 45*10
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November 1977 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 68DESIGN ASSOCIATES, INC. M. KAWASAKI 14360 Chef Mentaur Highway New Orleans, Louisiana 70129 Naval Architects Marine Management Phone: (504) 254-2012 Marine Engineers Transportation Consultants TWX 810-951-5317 NAVAL ARCHITECTS • MARINE ENGINEERS 114 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK, N.Y.
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January 1978 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 51BUYERS DIRECTORY AIR CONDITIONING AND REFRIGERATION-REPAIR & INSTALLATION Bailey Refrigeration Co., Inc., 74 Sullivan St., Brooklyn, N.Y. 11231 Nance Industries, P.O. Box 1547, Beaumont, Texas 77704 Stal-Laval, Inc., 400 Executive Blvd., Elmsford, N.Y. 19523 Way-Wolff Associates Inc., 45-10
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January 1978 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 38Professional DESIGNEE, NAVAL ARCHITECTS » IMC MARINE ENGINEERS 114 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK, N.Y. 10011 (212) 691-7770 P.O. BOX 1080 GALVESTON, TEX. 77550 (713) 762-1002 2341 JEFF. DAVIS HGWY ARLINGTON, VA. 22202 (703) 892-5900 M. MACK EARLE, P. E. COMPLETE MARINE ARCHITECTURAL
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July 1978 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 19for the 27,340-deadweight-ton vessel being constructed under a Mari- time Administration subsidy at a price of approximately $78 mil- lion. Mrs. Malcolm McArthur, also of Australia, was the matron of honor. The keel for the Austral Pio- neer was laid September 6 of last year, in the yard's
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July 1978 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 4Huthnance Awards Jackup Rig Contract To Bethlehem Beaumont Huthnance Drilling Company has awarded Bethlehem Steel Corporation's Beaumont, Texas, shipyard a contract for construc- tion of a new jackup rig, the Acadian Spirit. The new rig, expected to be de- livered in June 1979, will drill
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July 15, 1978 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 47BUYERS DIRECTORY AIR CONDITIONING AND REFRIGERATION-REPAIR & INSTALLATION Bailey Refrigeration Co., Inc., 74 Sullivan St., Brooklyn, N.Y. 11231 Stal-laval, Inc., 400 Executive Blvd., Elmsford, N.Y. 19523 Way-Wolff Associates Inc., 45-10 Vernon Blvd., Long Island City. N.Y. 11101 BATTERIES