VIMS 2020 Service Awards

The recipient of the 2020 Outstanding Employee in Facilities/Safety/Trades is Paul Richardson.

The winner of the 2020 Outstanding Employee for Technical Support is PG Ross.

The winner of the 2020 Outstanding Employee for Administrative Support is Denise Berry.

The recipient of this year’s award is Karinna Nunez.

The PPFA Researcher Award for 2020 goes to Dr. Hamish Small.

The PPFA Administrator Award for 2020 goes to Jennifer Hay.

This award recognizes a faculty member who has demonstrated mastery of graduate-student mentoring. This year's award goes to Dr. Jian Shen.

This award recognizes a staff member who continually goes above and beyond their assigned job duties to better the institution. The winner of this year's award is Paula Dye.

This award recognizes a faculty member who has excelled in teaching, research, or advisory service. This year's winner is Iris Anderson.

Coastal landscapes facing the combined threats of sea-level rise and erosion are at risk of a diminished, fleeting blue carbon stock

VIMS’ annual report of “dead-zone” conditions in the Chesapeake Bay indicates that hypoxic, low-oxygen conditions, in 2023 were at their lowest since monitoring began in 1985

True multidisciplinary collaboration is at the heart of what is now known as the Nepal Water Initiative (NWI), a research effort led by scientists and scholars from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS), the Global Research Institute (GRI), the Institute for Integrative Conservation (IIC), and the Religious Studies Department.

24th-annual contest recognizes the most noteworthy images captured by VIMS faculty, students, and staff while conducting research in the field and laboratory.

Preliminary results from an ongoing long-term survey conducted by researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science suggest a poor year class of young-of-year striped bass was produced in Virginia tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay in 2023.

Results demonstrate that fiddler crabs reduce plant growth in crabs’ expanded range, with findings counter to decades of research in their historical range.

Dr. Siddhartha Mitra PhD '97 joins VIMS as associate dean for academic affairs.

Each year the VIMS community gathers to recognize exemplary performance by faculty, staff, and students. Learn about this year's honorees.

An annual survey led by VIMS researchers mapped 76,462 acres of underwater grasses in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries in 2022. Their report, published today, documents a 12% increase in submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) in the regions mapped by the team, with lead researcher Dr. Christopher Patrick noting, “For the most part, we had a really encouraging year for SAV throughout the Bay.”