January 15, 2016 — SOUTH KINGSTOWN – An oceanographer at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography said temperatures in Narragansett Bay hit record highs and lows in 2015.

Jeremy Collie said the temperatures represent the “most extreme” fluctuations observed since the school started surveying the waters 56 years ago.

“What really stands out with our findings is that we had extreme cold and extreme heat in the water temperature in 2015,” Collie said in a statement. “So even though the world is warming because of climate change, we’re still going to have these extremes.”

The findings came from GSO’s Narragansett Bay Fish Trawl, which is done to sample fish every week in the bay and track seasonal or annual changes of marine life. Water temperature also is recorded weekly at the same site off Wickford Village in North Kingstown. Collie has managed the trawl since 1998.

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