Chronology of Important Events
1935 Dr. Charles J. Fish launched Narragansett Marine Laboratory
1951 R.I. College of Agriculture & Mechanic Arts became the University of Rhode
Island
1957 Maritimes first published
1960 Fish Oceanographic Laboratory building Marine Resources Program
1961 Graduate School of Oceanography established
1962 R/V Trident commissioned
1964 Rhode Island Nuclear Science Center
1965 Law of the Sea Institute Department of Ocean Engineering
1966 Seawater Facility Marine Experiment Station
1967 Department of Fisheries & Marine Technology
1968 Pell Marine Science Library Francis H. Horn Laboratory
1968 New England Marine Resources Information Program
1969 International Center for Marine Resources Development
1969 Department of Marine Resource Economics
1969 Department of Marine Affairs
1970 Marine Advisory Service
1971 National Sea Grant Depository
1971 URI named one of the first four National Sea Grant Colleges
1971 Research Aquarium building
1971 South Laboratory building
1972 Coastal Resources Center
1976 R/V Endeavor commissioned
1976 Division of Marine Resources
1977 Marine Ecosystems Research Laboratory (MERL) building
1978 Norman D. Watkins Laboratory building
1980 Center for Atmospheric Chemistry Studies (CACS)
1980 Aquarium Annex building
1983 Marine Resources building
1986 Office of Marine Programs
1989 Geological Samples Repository
1989 Cooperative Marine Education & Research Program
1989 U.S. National Park Service, Cooperative Park Studies Unit
1991 Center for Atmospheric Chemistry Studies (CACS) building
1993 Ocean Technology Center
1993 Perkins Small Boat Facility
1996 Coastal Institute on Narragansett Bay
1998 Ocean Technology Center building
1998 The Coastal Institute building (Bay Campus)