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Rice</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:MRice.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/MRice.jpg/220px-MRice.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="272" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/MRice.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="371" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Member of the <span style="display: inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Rhode_Island_House_of_Representatives" title="Rhode Island House of Representatives">Rhode Island House of Representatives</a></span><br />from the 35th district</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />January 3, 2009 – January 3, 2011</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_P._Shanley_Jr." title="John P. Shanley Jr.">John Patrick Shanley, Jr.</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Spencer_Dickinson_(politician)" title="Spencer Dickinson (politician)">Spencer E. Dickinson</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1955-03-04</span>) </span>March 4, 1955<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 69)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/San_Jose,_CA" class="mw-redirect" title="San Jose, CA">San Jose, CA</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data">Rufina Delizo Rice</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">Maria Isabel Rice, J.D.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Rice_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rice-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Residence</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Wakefield-Peacedale,_Rhode_Island" title="Wakefield-Peacedale, Rhode Island">Wakefield, R.I.</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Profession</th><td class="infobox-data">Professor of <a href="/wiki/Fisheries_science" title="Fisheries science">Fisheries</a> & <a href="/wiki/Aquaculture" title="Aquaculture">Aquaculture</a> at <a href="/wiki/University_of_Rhode_Island" title="University of Rhode Island">University of Rhode Island</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/University_of_San_Francisco" title="University of San Francisco">University of San Francisco</a>,<br /> <a href="/wiki/University_of_California,_Irvine" title="University of California, Irvine">University of California, Irvine</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Known for</th><td class="infobox-data">aquaculture of <a href="/wiki/Bivalves" class="mw-redirect" title="Bivalves">bivalves</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><b>Scientific career</b></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Fields</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Aquaculture" title="Aquaculture">Aquaculture</a>, <a href="/wiki/Environmental_physiology" class="mw-redirect" title="Environmental physiology">Environmental physiology</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Institutions</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/University_of_Rhode_Island" title="University of Rhode Island">University of Rhode Island</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Thesis" title="Thesis">Thesis</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://uci.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991014347189704701&context=L&vid=01CDL_IRV_INST:UCI&lang=en&search_scope=MyInstitution&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=LibraryCatalog&query=creator,contains,Michael%20A.%20Rice,AND&mode=advanced&offset=0">Transepithelial flux of amino acids in three species of marine bivalve molluscs</a></i> <span style="font-size:97%;">(1987)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Doctoral_advisor" title="Doctoral advisor">Doctoral advisor</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Grover_C._Stephens" title="Grover C. Stephens">Grover C. Stephens</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://web.uri.edu/favs/michael-a-rice/">http://web.uri.edu/favs/michael-a-rice/</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Michael Alan Rice</b>, (born March 4, 1955) is an American professor of fisheries and aquaculture at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Rhode_Island" title="University of Rhode Island">University of Rhode Island</a> and former state representative from <a href="/wiki/South_Kingstown,_Rhode_Island" title="South Kingstown, Rhode Island">South Kingstown, Rhode Island</a>. A <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democrat</a>, he served in the <a href="/wiki/Rhode_Island_House_of_Representatives" title="Rhode Island House of Representatives">Rhode Island House of Representatives</a>, representing the 35th district, encompassing the village of <a href="/wiki/Kingston,_Rhode_Island" title="Kingston, Rhode Island">Kingston</a> and West Kingston, and parts of the neighborhoods of Tuckertown, <a href="/wiki/Wakefield,_Rhode_Island" title="Wakefield, Rhode Island">Wakefield</a> and <a href="/wiki/Peace_Dale,_Rhode_Island" title="Peace Dale, Rhode Island">Peace Dale</a>. Rice was first elected on November 4, 2008, and served from January 3, 2009, to January 3, 2011. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education_and_early_career">Education and early career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_A._Rice&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Education and early career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Rice was born in <a href="/wiki/San_Jose,_California" title="San Jose, California">San Jose, California</a>, to Richard Eugene Rice and Marilyn Joyce (Cardoza) Rice. He is a descendant of <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_Historical_Museum" title="Portuguese Historical Museum">19th-century Azorean settlers in California</a>, thus being of <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_people" title="Portuguese people">Portuguese</a> descent, and a direct patrilineal descendant of New England colonist <a href="/wiki/Edmund_Rice_(1638)" class="mw-redirect" title="Edmund Rice (1638)">Edmund Rice</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Michael Rice earned the rank of <a href="/wiki/List_of_Eagle_Scouts_(Boy_Scouts_of_America)" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Eagle Scouts (Boy Scouts of America)">Eagle Scout</a> in 1972 in <a href="/wiki/Garden_Grove,_California" title="Garden Grove, California">Garden Grove, California</a>. Rice attended <a href="/wiki/Servite_High_School" title="Servite High School">Servite High School</a> in <a href="/wiki/Anaheim,_California" title="Anaheim, California">Anaheim, California</a> before attending the <a href="/wiki/University_of_San_Francisco" title="University of San Francisco">University of San Francisco</a>, and graduating with a B.S. in biology in 1977.<sup id="cite_ref-RI-SOS_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RI-SOS-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-URI_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-URI-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While working in the laboratory of physiologist <a href="/wiki/Grover_C._Stephens" title="Grover C. Stephens">Grover C. Stephens</a> at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_California,_Irvine" title="University of California, Irvine">University of California, Irvine</a>, he earned both a master's degree in biology in 1981 and a PhD. in <a href="/wiki/Comparative_physiology" title="Comparative physiology">comparative physiology</a> in 1987. </p><p>Rice served in the U.S. <a href="/wiki/Peace_Corps" title="Peace Corps">Peace Corps</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a> from 1981 to 1985 working with the <a href="/wiki/Bureau_of_Fisheries_and_Aquatic_Resources_(Philippines)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (Philippines)">Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Rice_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rice-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-URI_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-URI-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During that time, he worked to improve the sanitary quality of farmed oysters.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1982, while working with José Maria DeGuzman of Value Trading Company Inc. in <a href="/wiki/Dagupan" title="Dagupan">Dagupan</a>, he helped establish the first commercially successful farm for <a href="/wiki/Serranidae" title="Serranidae">serranid grouper</a> fish in the Philippines.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Academic_career">Academic career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_A._Rice&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Academic career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Rice has spent most of his career in <a href="/wiki/Academia" class="mw-redirect" title="Academia">academia</a>, first appointed to the faculty of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Rhode_Island" title="University of Rhode Island">University of Rhode Island</a> (URI) in October 1987.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His academic research interests are in the area of <a href="/wiki/Environmental_physiology" class="mw-redirect" title="Environmental physiology">environmental physiology</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ecology" title="Ecology">ecology</a> of <a href="/wiki/Bivalve_molluscs" class="mw-redirect" title="Bivalve molluscs">bivalve molluscs</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and he has further research interests in the field of <a href="/wiki/Aquaculture" title="Aquaculture">aquaculture</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His major contributions have been the demonstration that bivalve mollusks have the ability to absorb <a href="/wiki/Amino_acids" class="mw-redirect" title="Amino acids">amino acids</a> directly from seawater as a nutrition source, and that bivalves serve an important role in mediating the <a href="/wiki/Nitrogen_cycle#Marine_nitrogen_cycle" title="Nitrogen cycle">cycling of nitrogen</a> and other nutrients within <a href="/wiki/Marine_ecosystems" class="mw-redirect" title="Marine ecosystems">marine ecosystems</a>. Additionally, he has studied the effects of shellfishing on the <a href="/wiki/Population_ecology" title="Population ecology">population ecology</a> of bivalves. His research has led to refinements to the practice of managing shellfishery resources in coastal waters, <a href="/wiki/Estuary" title="Estuary">estuaries</a> and <a href="/wiki/Marine_protected_areas" class="mw-redirect" title="Marine protected areas">marine protected areas</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Rice has made contributions the science of shellfishery management and to the growth of the aquaculture industry in <a href="/wiki/Rhode_Island" title="Rhode Island">Rhode Island</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and internationally,<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> including the <a href="/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Tanzania" title="Tanzania">Tanzania</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Georgia_(country)" title="Georgia (country)">Georgia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Indonesia" title="Indonesia">Indonesia</a><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Gambia" class="mw-redirect" title="Gambia">The Gambia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Working with Enrico Beridze of the Iberian Pontomarine Aquaculture Company, he introduced mussel farming to the <a href="/wiki/Black_Sea" title="Black Sea">Black Sea</a> coast of Georgia.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He has led a study of <a href="/wiki/Invasive_species" title="Invasive species">invasive</a> Australian crayfish in the <a href="/wiki/Zambezi" title="Zambezi">Zambezi River</a> watershed of <a href="/wiki/Zambia" title="Zambia">Zambia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rice has been the recipient of three <a href="/wiki/Fulbright_Scholarship" class="mw-redirect" title="Fulbright Scholarship">Fulbright Scholarship</a> awards: Republic of the Philippines 1996–97;<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Indonesia" title="Indonesia">Indonesia</a> 1997; and Republic of the Philippines 2006.<sup id="cite_ref-URI_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-URI-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At the University of Rhode Island he served as Chairman of the Department of Fisheries, Animal and Veterinary Science from 2000 to 2004, and Chairman/President of the URI Faculty Senate from 2005 to 2007,<sup id="cite_ref-Rice_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rice-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and again from 2022 to 2023.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Civic_involvement_and_politics">Civic involvement and politics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_A._Rice&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Civic involvement and politics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Rice has served from 1999 to 2000 as the president of the <a href="/wiki/Tavern_Hall_Preservation_Society" title="Tavern Hall Preservation Society">Tavern Hall Club</a>, a not-for-profit organization in <a href="/wiki/Kingston,_RI" class="mw-redirect" title="Kingston, RI">Kingston, RI</a> dedicated to the preservation of the historic (1738) Elisha Reynolds House as a community meeting place and social center.<sup id="cite_ref-Rice_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rice-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He has also served as the President of the University Club of URI from 1995 to 1996.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was elected in 2007 to the board of directors and in 2008 as treasurer of the <a href="/wiki/Edmund_Rice_(1638)" class="mw-redirect" title="Edmund Rice (1638)">Edmund Rice (1638)</a> Association, a <a href="/wiki/Genealogy" title="Genealogy">genealogical</a> and <a href="/wiki/Family_history" class="mw-redirect" title="Family history">family history</a> association that meets annually in <a href="/wiki/Sudbury,_Massachusetts" title="Sudbury, Massachusetts">Sudbury, Massachusetts</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2011, Rice was nominated by <a href="/wiki/Bruce_Sundlun" title="Bruce Sundlun">Bruce Sundlun</a> and appointed by <a href="/wiki/Lincoln_Chafee" title="Lincoln Chafee">Lincoln Chafee</a> as a <a href="/wiki/Rhode_Island_Commodore" title="Rhode Island Commodore">Rhode Island Commodore</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Rice_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rice-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Prior to election to the Rhode Island House of Representatives in 2008, Rice served as an appointed member of a number of governmental commissions, including the Conservation Commission of <a href="/wiki/South_Kingstown,_Rhode_Island" title="South Kingstown, Rhode Island">South Kingstown</a> from 1992 to 2008.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He chaired that commission from 1998 to 2008.<sup id="cite_ref-Rice_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rice-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Also prior to election, he was appointed by the Speaker of the RI House of Representatives, to the Legislative Commission on Aquaculture Development (1995–1998),<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to the Legislative Commission to Develop and Coordinate a Collaborative Effort to Formulate a Restoration Plan for the <a href="/wiki/North_Cape_oil_spill" title="North Cape oil spill"><i>North Cape</i></a> Barge Oil Spill (1999),<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and as Legislative Commissioner proxy delegate to meetings of the <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_States_Marine_Fisheries_Commission" title="Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission">Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission</a> (1999–2000).<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rice took an active advocacy role in developing recreational marine fishing licenses to gather fishery harvest data and to fund enhanced fishery management efforts within Rhode Island state waters.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2008, upon the decision of incumbent Rep. <a href="/wiki/John_P._Shanley_Jr." title="John P. Shanley Jr.">John Patrick Shanley</a> (D-South Kingstown) not to run for a fifth term in the <a href="/wiki/Rhode_Island_House_of_Representatives" title="Rhode Island House of Representatives">Rhode Island House of Representatives</a>, Rice ran and was challenged by Republican James K. Haldeman for the open seat. In the election held on November 4, 2008, Rice defeated Haldeman by 57.5% to 42.5%, carrying each of the district's five precincts.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the 2009 legislative session, Rice served on the House Committee on Separation of Powers and Government Oversight. In the 2010 session, he served on the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, and the House committees on Separation of Powers, Government Oversight, and Constituent Services, as well as the Special House Commission to Study the Structure and Workings of the Rhode Island Department of Transportation.<sup id="cite_ref-RI-SOS_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RI-SOS-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Rice was defeated for reelection by <a href="/wiki/Spencer_Dickinson_(politician)" title="Spencer Dickinson (politician)">Spencer E. Dickinson</a> in the September 14, 2010 Democratic Primary by a margin of 52.8-47.2%.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was targeted for defeat by the Rhode Island Labor Movement after voting against expansion of pension benefits for workers.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2011, Rice was appointed to the Rhode Island Democratic Party State Committee representing at-large <a href="/wiki/Rhode_Island%27s_2nd_congressional_district" title="Rhode Island's 2nd congressional district">Rhode Island's 2nd congressional district</a>, serving until 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2013 he was appointed by <a href="/wiki/Lincoln_Chafee" title="Lincoln Chafee">Governor Chafee</a> and received confirmation by the Rhode Island Senate to serve a two and a half-year partial term on the Rhode Island Marine Fisheries Council,<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and reappointed to two terms by <a href="/wiki/Gina_Raimondo" title="Gina Raimondo">Governor Raimondo</a> ending on 1 April 2024.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He has been active with the <a href="/wiki/American_Association_of_University_Professors" title="American Association of University Professors">American Association of University Professors</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Selected_publications">Selected publications</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_A._Rice&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Selected publications"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Rice, M.A., P.D. Rawson, A.D. Salinas and W.R. Rosario. 2016. Identification and salinity tolerance of the western hemisphere mussel <i><a href="/wiki/Mytella_charruana" class="mw-redirect" title="Mytella charruana">Mytella charruana</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Alcide_d%27Orbigny" title="Alcide d'Orbigny">d'Orbigny</a>, 1842) in the Philippines. Journal of Shellfish Research 35:865-873</li> <li>Rice, M.A. 2010. A brief history of the American Fish Culture Company 1877–1997. <a href="/wiki/Rhode_Island_Historical_Society" title="Rhode Island Historical Society">Rhode Island History</a> 68(1):20-35.</li> <li>Marroquin-Mora, D.C. and M.A. Rice. 2008. Gonadal cycle of northern quahogs, <i>Mercenaria mercenaria</i> (Linnaeus, 1758), from fished and non-fished subpopulations in Narragansett Bay. Journal of Shellfish Research 27:643-652.</li> <li>Pietros, J.M. and M.A. Rice. 2003. The impacts of aquacultured oysters, <i>Crassostrea virginica</i> (<a href="/wiki/Johann_Friedrich_Gmelin" title="Johann Friedrich Gmelin">Gmelin</a>, 1791) on water quality and <a href="/wiki/Sedimentation" title="Sedimentation">sedimentation</a>: results of a <a href="/wiki/Mesocosm" title="Mesocosm">mesocosm</a> study. Aquaculture 220:407-422.</li> <li>Rheault, R.B., Jr., and M.A. Rice. 1996. Food-limited growth and condition index in the oyster <i><a href="/wiki/Crassostrea_virginica" class="mw-redirect" title="Crassostrea virginica">Crassostrea virginica</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Johann_Friedrich_Gmelin" title="Johann Friedrich Gmelin">Gmelin</a>, 1791) and the bay scallop <i><a href="/wiki/Argopecten_irradians" title="Argopecten irradians">Argopecten irradians</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Lamarck" class="mw-redirect" title="Lamarck">Lamarck</a> 1819). Journal of Shellfish Research 15:271-283.</li> <li>Rice, M.A., <a href="/wiki/Robert_B._Rheault#Family_life" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert B. Rheault">R.B. Rheault, Jr.</a>, M.S. Perez and <a href="/wiki/Vincent_S._Perez" title="Vincent S. Perez">V.S. Perez</a>. 1994. Experimental culture and particle filtration by Asian moon scallops, <i><a href="/wiki/Amusium_pleuronectes" title="Amusium pleuronectes">Amusium pleuronectes</a></i>. Asian Fisheries Science 7:179-185.</li> <li>Rice, M.A., C. Hickox, and I. Zehra. 1989. Effects of intensive fishing effort on the <a href="/wiki/Population_dynamics_of_fisheries" title="Population dynamics of fisheries">population structure</a> of quahogs, <i><a href="/wiki/Mercenaria_mercenaria" class="mw-redirect" title="Mercenaria mercenaria">Mercenaria mercenaria</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Carl_Linnaeus" title="Carl Linnaeus">Linn.</a> 1758) in <a href="/wiki/Narragansett_Bay" title="Narragansett Bay">Narragansett Bay</a>. Journal of Shellfish Research 8:345-354.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donal_T._Manahan" title="Donal T. Manahan">Manahan, D.T.</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stephen_H._Wright" title="Stephen H. Wright">S.H. Wright</a>, <a href="/wiki/Grover_C._Stephens" title="Grover C. Stephens">G.C. Stephens</a> and M.A. Rice. 1982. Transport of dissolved amino acids by the mussel, <i><a href="/wiki/Mytilus_edulis" class="mw-redirect" title="Mytilus edulis">Mytilus edulis</a></i>: Demonstration of net uptake from seawater by <a href="/wiki/HPLC" class="mw-redirect" title="HPLC">HPLC</a> analysis. <a href="/wiki/Science_(journal)" title="Science (journal)">Science</a> 215:1253-1255.</li> <li>Rice, M.A. and <a href="/wiki/Paul_Chien" title="Paul Chien">P.K. Chien</a>. 1979. Uptake, binding and clearance of <a href="/wiki/Valence_(chemistry)" title="Valence (chemistry)">divalent</a> <a href="/wiki/Cadmium" title="Cadmium">cadmium</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Glycera_(genus)" class="mw-redirect" title="Glycera (genus)">Glycera dibranchiata</a></i> (Annelida:Polychaeta). Marine Biology 53:33-39.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Selected_legislation_as_enacted">Selected legislation as enacted</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_A._Rice&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Selected legislation as enacted"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b>2009-H5690a.</b> <i>An Act Relating to Agriculture and Forestry—Diseases and Parasites.</i> This act established the <a href="/wiki/Asian_long-horned_beetle" title="Asian long-horned beetle">Asian long-horned beetle</a> and <a href="/wiki/Emerald_ash_borer" title="Emerald ash borer">emerald ash borer</a> beetles as nuisances. It also established penalties for unlawful importation and transportation of these invasive beetles and infested logs.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b>2009-H6226aa</b> <i>An Act Relating to Fish and Wildlife -- Recreational Saltwater Fishing License.</i> This act created a recreational saltwater fishing license and made it unlawful to fish in the marine waters of the state without first obtaining a license. Funds derived from licenses are for enhancing recreational marine fisheries.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The dedicated funds allowed for considerable expansion of the marine fisheries management and public programming by the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b>2010-H7007</b> <i>An Act Relating to State Affairs and Government - Historian Laureate of Rhode Island.</i> This act would establish the position of historian laureate in Rhode Island. <sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Established RIGL §42-100.1-1 to §42-100.1-7 Historian Laureate of Rhode Island.<sup id="cite_ref-54" 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