Hunter and Cynthia Andrews established an endowment at VIMS to honor the memory of their son, the late H. Booker Andrews Jr. The Andrews endowment is a charitable remainder annuity trust totaling more than $100,000 that benefits graduate students at VIMS.

Dr. Steven Kaattari, CSX Professor of Marine Science in VIMS Department of Environmental Sciences, tells how CSX funds help support research and educational activities in his lab.

Glucksman Professor Hugh Ducklow is internationally recognized as an expert in the ecology of marine microbial plankton. Marine micbrobes are the smallest, most numerous and widely distributed autonomous organisms on Earth.

The Hargis Library Endowment was established to ensure the VIMS library maintains one of the finest collections in the country.

In 1997, Jack and Ann Kauffman made a $20 million bequest to VIMS, which included their home on the Rappahannock River. Concerned about disappearing oysters and other environmental issues, the Kauffmans decided that their home would be a perfect place for VIMS to establish an oyster-breeding facility and acquaculture center.

Receiving the Marlatt fellowship was the deciding factor in graduate student Melanie Spring's decision to attend VIMS, where she is now conducting research on the blue crab.

A longtime supporter of VIMS, Morgan Massey was the driving force behind establishment of the VIMS Foundation and now serves as its first president.

Captain J. Maury Werth, USN (Ret.), endowed an annual award to a VIMS graduate student in honor of his great-grandfather Mathew Fontaine Maury, known as the Father of Oceanography and the Pathfinder of the Sea.

Moses D. Nunnally, Jr. was an avid recreational sports fisherman with a keen interest in VIMS. Support from the Nunnally Trust provided funding for Nunnally Hall, which houses VIMS' 100,000 specimen Fish Collection, and also helped purhase equipment for the Fisheries Science Laboratory.

Private support to the Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve-Virginia provides an annual fellowship to a student engaged in research and collection of long-term ecological data within the Research Reserve system.

Support from private owners of some of the most pristine tidal wetlands in the nation sustains a four-year project to investigate whether spray dredging can be an environmentally acceptable method of dredged material disposable and whether it can help marshes withstand rising sea level.