The Impact of Your Gifts
Promoting science to save the Bay
Gifts from individuals and corporations help VIMS researchers create the fundamental knowledge needed to restore and sustainably manage Chesapeake Bay and the coastal ocean. Private giving also supports education and training of the next generation of marine scientists and policymakers.
The Tidewater Oyster Gardeners Association has provided VIMS with an initial gift of $27,000 to establish the TOGA Fellowship Endowment in support of research by VIMS graduate students.
$50,000 gift from Dominion Foundation will fund purchase of an underwater video system for field studies in Chesapeake Bay.
The Gloucester Point Rotary Club makes a $5,000 gift to honor J. Ernest Warinner and to support graduate students at VIMS.
The gift to the VIMS Foundation will support climate change research by Master’s student Emily Jayne.
Five students from universities throughout the Commonwealth returned to their native Eastern shore to pursue research at VIMS' Eastern Shore Laboratory in Wachapreague.
Two local chapters of the U.S. Power Squadrons raise more than $3,000 for VIMS during the first annual "Dinghy Poker Run."
A gift from Adrian G. "Casey" Duplantier Jr. and 1st Advantage Federal Credit Union supports another season of field research for two W&M students.
VIMS begins a new program to train the skilled workers needed to advance Chesapeake Bay’s rapidly growing oyster-farming industry.
VIMS' annual open house drew an estimated 2,000 visitors to Gloucester Point on May 30 for a day of fun and learning.
VIMS' 2009 Art Show and Auction will feature the works of Eastern Shore sculptors William and David Turner, a father and son team known internationally for their wildlife sculptures in bronze.
Ferguson Enterprises of Newport News has pledged $75,000 to the Virginia Institute of Marine Science to support graduate student education and public outreach at the Gloucester Point campus.
A major gift from Norfolk Dredging Company will help VIMS researchers advance their studies of seafloor history and ecology. VIMS will use the funds to purchase an automatic core logger that can uncover a wealth of environmental data from seafloor sediment cores.
Norfolk Southern Corporation has committed $150,000 to VIMS to help purchase an Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer, an instrument that provides new opportunities for addressing important questions in marine ecology and conservation.
Dominion of Richmond has given VIMS a $50,000 gift to help equip a distance-learning classroom in VIMS' new research building, Andrews Hall, which is scheduled to open in spring 2007.
The Beazley Foundation of Portsmouth has awarded the Virginia Institute of Marine Science Foundation a $50,000 endowed student fellowship to attract students from the Tidewater region of Virginia.
The Massey Foundation of Richmond has committed an additional $500,000 to the Virginia Institute of Marine Science's 5-year capital campaign, doubling the Foundation's total contribution to $1 million.
