Virginia Graduate Marine Science Consortium

Virginia Sea Grant facilitates research, educational and advisory activities promoting sustainable management of our State's marine resources. With 5,000 miles of Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean shorelines, the Commonwealth of Virginia hosts a wide diversity of living and non-living marine resources. The Chesapeake Bay Commission predicts that the population in the bay watershed will swell to 17.4 million by the year 2020. The complex needs and concerns created by this population growth are enormous.

Virginia Sea Grant is part of a 30-state National Sea Grant Program established by Congress in 1966. Similar to the relationship between land-grant colleges and agriculture, sea-grant colleges research new ideas and technologies to help us best utilize, manage, and understand our ocean and coastal resources. They address a broad range of issues including aquaculture, marine biotechnology, seafood processing, the development of marine products, fisheries recruitment and conservation, estuarine processes, marine education, and marine policy. The goal is to define and resolve timely, local and regional problems and work to resolve them -- as well as to provide impartial information to marine resource users everywhere.

Contact:
PO Box 400146
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4146
Phone: (804) 684-7164
Fax: (804) 684-7161
Website: http://www.virginia.edu/virginia-sea-grant/


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Projects By Virginia Graduate Marine Science Consortium:

A National Planning Effort to Further National Marine Research
Rickards, William L. Sponsor: U.S. Doc- Nat. Oceanic & Atmospheric Admin. (Noaa)
The development of marine aquaculture technology will be advanced and strengthened through the establishment of an organized and collaborative approach to research, teaching, and outreach programs....

Analysis of Stock Assessment Methodologies - Oysters
Rickards, William L. Sponsor: U.S. Doc- Nat. Oceanic & Atmospheric Admin. (Noaa)
Relevant portions of the oyster monitoring database for the James River have been extracted. Maps and other graphical displays of the data have been prepared. There are clear, temporally persistent ...

Ballast Water Treatment & Management
Rickards, William L. Sponsor: U.S. Doc- Nat. Oceanic & Atmospheric Admin. (Noaa)
The economic and ecological threats posed to the United States by nonindigenous invertebrate species transported by ships' ballast water is much better understood and documented than the corresponding ...

Ballast Water Treatment Research - Virginia Project, 2001-2003
Rickards, William L. Sponsor: U.S. Doc- Nat. Oceanic & Atmospheric Admin. (Noaa)
Global shipping moues roughly 80 percent of the world's commodities and is fundamental to worid trade (National -Research Council, 1996). As an unintended resuit of these shipping activities, numerous. ...

BRIDGE: Online Ocean Science Teacher Center
Rickards, William L. Sponsor: U.S. Doc- Nat. Oceanic & Atmospheric Admin. (Noaa)
(22) OBJECTIVES: As described in detail in the proposal text, the objectives are - Objective # 1: Enable educators nationwide to access easily and efficiently a clearinghouse that conceptually organizes ...

Captive spawning, larval and early juvenile culture of
Rickards, William L. Sponsor: U.S. Doc- Nat. Oceanic & Atmospheric Admin. (Noaa)
The development of marine aquaculture technology to be advanced and strengthened through the establishment of an organized and collaborative approach to research, teaching, and outreach programs. ...

Chesapeake Bay Toxics Research Program
Rickards, William L. Sponsor: U.S. Doc- Nat. Oceanic & Atmospheric Admin. (Noaa)
CBEEC-funded research on toxics in the Chesapeake Bay over the last decade has increased our understanding considerably about contaminant transport, the effects of sediment flux processes and the ecological ...

Cooperative Activity in Stock Assessment & Population Dynamics
Smith, David E. Sponsor: U.S. Doc- Nat. Oceanic & Atmospheric Admin. (Noaa)
There is a need to develop gradate students in science of stock assessment and population dynamics to attain the mission of NMFS. A State-Federal cooperative activity can be established at VIMS to train ...

Development and application of depletion models that accommodate ancillary information. SG/NMFS Population Dynamics Fellowship - T. Ihde
Rickards, William L. Sponsor: U.S. Doc- Nat. Oceanic & Atmospheric Admin. (Noaa)
The first objective of this project is to develop appropriate methodologies that modify standard depletion models (index-removal, and Collie-Sissenwine) to include additional sources of information, ...

Hampton University Research Capability Enhancement
Rickards, William L. Sponsor: U.S. Doc- Nat. Oceanic & Atmospheric Admin. (Noaa)
To assist in achieving the goals set forth in the Consortium By-Laws, the following objectives have been established for administering the 'Virginia Sea Grant Program: I. Provide coordination and ...

Institutional Sea Grant Support 2003-2004
Smith, David E. Sponsor: U.S. Doc- Nat. Oceanic & Atmospheric Admin. (Noaa)
OBJECTIVES: To establish and maintain dialogue with marine resource users, and to educate the general public on marine-related matters. To analyze and transfer technical information in an understandable ...

Knauss Fellowship - K.A. Gundersen - 2005
Rickards, William L. Sponsor: U.S. Doc- Nat. Oceanic & Atmospheric Admin. (Noaa)

Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship From VA-SG for Debra Lambert
Rickards, William L. Sponsor: U.S. Doc- Nat. Oceanic & Atmospheric Admin. (Noaa)

National Sea Grant Program 2000-2001 Aquatic Nuisance species & oyster disease research
Rickards, William L. Sponsor: U.S. Doc- Nat. Oceanic & Atmospheric Admin. (Noaa)
1.)To provide funding for the project entitled "ODRP and ANS Research (Virginia Projects)- Year -2 Support per the recipient's application dated 6/28/02 and revisions dated 10/22/02, which are incorporated ...

NMFS-Sea Grant Joint Fellowship in Population Dynamics - Robert Leaf
Smith, David E. Sponsor: U.S. Doc- Nat. Oceanic & Atmospheric Admin. (Noaa)
OBJECTIVES: 1) Investigate the effects of fishing on genetic diversity and alterations in life history characteristics. 2) Describe how alterations in life history characteristics affect the population ...

Oyster Disease Research Program
Rickards, William L. Sponsor: U.S. Doc- Nat. Oceanic & Atmospheric Admin. (Noaa)
The overall objective of this research is to employ a modification of current in vitro culture methodology to produce sensitive and useful prognostic tests for oyster stock resistance to P. ...

Professional Development Programs for Science Teachers - Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Rickards, William L. Sponsor: University Of Maryland
The Virginia Sea Grant Marine Advisory Program at VIMS requests funding for a three-part education program for teachers in the Chesapeake Bay watershed: Manne Recreational Fisheries Science and Management, ...

Virginia Projects - NMAI - 2001/2002
Rickards, William L. Sponsor: U.S. Doc- Nat. Oceanic & Atmospheric Admin. (Noaa)
This proposal addresses the nutritional problems with currently available commercial diets for juvenile summer flounder (Paralichthys dentatus) by investigating basic nutritional requirements ...


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