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Summer, 2006 (Vol. 8, No. 2)

• Menhaden research
• Sea Grant renews effort to manage cownose rays
• Food-web study aids management of biodiversity
• Horodysky throws light on fish vision
• Research reveals lobsters avoid sick neighbors
• New faculty brushes aside disciplinary boundaries
• Research helps created wetlands come to life
• Miselis chosen as Foster Scholar
• Wetlands workshop promotes informed management
• VIMS bestows 2005 Awards
• Duffy and Lipcius win Leopold Fellowships
• Alum coaches high school team to national recognition
• VIMS alumna receives prestigious national award
• Lucy wins Hutchinson conservation award
• Newsbriefs

Winter, 2006 (Vol. 8, No. 1)

• Governor proposes $2.9 M for VIMS
• Construction begins on new buildings
• VIMS collaborates to restore Lynnhaven
• A tale of two breakwaters
• Seagrass die-back troubles researchers
• VIMS' role in tidal-wetlands permitting
• VIMS' ghostbusters study effects of lost fishing gear
• Virginia Clean Marina program tops 60 members
• VIMS premieres new ocean observatories course
• VIMS student marches with the penguins
• Fabrizio team wins NOAA Bronze Medal Award
• VIMS students win awards
• AFS recognizes Hoffman
• Former Professor Frank Fang dies
• VIMS sees the light
• CBNERR dedicates new lab

Spring/Summer, 2005 (Vol. 7, No. 1)

• Collaborative project gets to the bottom of oyster questions
• Rare crab may hold genetic secrets
• Shark trip brings research career full circle
• ICCAT adopts ban on "shark finning"
• Fisheries hires Fabrizio
• VIMS pair win Environmental Heroes Award
• Friedrichs and Steinberg receive faculty awards
• Trio tops citation analysis
• Fisheries partnership aids sturgeon restoration
• Researchers test beach-nourishment protocol
• CBNERR brings Bay education to local schools
• Hardaway selected to serve on national committee
• Emeritus Professor George Grant dies
• News Briefs

Fall, 2004 (Vol. 6, No. 2)

• NOAA Opens Chesapeake Bay Office in Virginia at VIMS
• Team discovers probable cause of croaker deaths
• Researchers test and refine storm-surge models
• Dye helps predict potential dispersal of non-native oyster larvae
• Researchers release juvenile blue crabs
• Annual wetlands workshop explores Isabel's impacts
• Fellows earn berth at EPA Conference
• Reay and Priest share Spirit award
• Schaffner briefs U.S. Congress
• VIMS student develops educational board game
• VIMS hosts release of Fisheries Ecosystem plan
• Researchers study ocean's "internal weather"
• VIMS mourns passing of Andrews
• News Briefs

Spring, 2004 (Vol. 6, No. 1)

• VIMS dedicates Kauffman Center
• Ocean report bolsters VIMS agenda
• Mann urges Congress to enact ballast water standard
• Graves receives faculty award
• Study supports UN Dead Zone report
• Marine trades will pay for training
• Researchers link beach erosion to ice-age channels
• Recovered tag provides data windfall
• Heritage tourism workshop draws local businesses
• Pair contribute to Science article on ocean fertilization
• VIMS launches data buoy
• Hale takes PBDE research to the air
• VIMS finds pathogen in non-native oyster
• Study reveals drop in SAV
• NOAA honors VIMS alumnus
• Musick celebrates 35th Roanoke round-up
• Assembly names Library for Hargis
• VIMS honors Castagna
• Volunteers support Blue Crab Bowl
• News Briefs

Fall, 2003 (Vol. 5, No. 3)

• VIMS hires new Dean and Director
• Hurricane Isabel hinders research
• VIMS acquires unique new vessel
• Pair pursue promise of proteomics
• Research questions environmental safety of flame retardant
• VIMS scientists quantify Isabel's impact on Bay
• Schaffner Elected ERF President
• ABC continues oyster work with Academy validation
• Newman wins SETAC Founders Award
• Faculty help bring minorities to marine science
• Sea Grant sponsors seafood education programs
• VIMS hosts international sediment conference
• Students chosen as Knauss Fellows
• Aquanauts visit inner space
• Study highlights link between biodiversity and ecosystem function
• CCRM kicks off trans-Atlantic collaboration

Summer, 2003 (Vol. 5, No. 2)

• TBT or not TBT: Collaborators Search for a Solution to Pollution
• VIMS research helps protect Navy ships from mines
• Switch to Circle Hooks Would Benefit White Marlin
• Do Tags Put a Drag on Marine Organisms?
• Video Technology Links VIMS to the World
• For-hire Fishing Captains Drawn to Regional Workshops
• Teachers Gain Hands-On Research Experience
• Pair Use Neural Network to Predict Hurricane Waves
• Seamount Census Reveals New and Poorly Known Marine Life
• VIMS Helps Local Students Aid Oyster Restoration Effort
• From Counting Fish to Implementing Energy Policy

Winter, 2003 (Vol. 5, No. 1)

• VIMS research helps protect Navy ships from mines
• Moore monitors water quality and seagrasses
• Orth studies seed predators
• Researchers see Bay in a grain of sand
• VIMS reviews VSC proposal
• NAS studies C. ariakensis
• Steinberg conducts zooplankton census
• Russian taxonomist visits
• Schaffner wins award
• VIMS work on hard clams pays off
• VIMS leads Antarctic LTER Program
• VIMS helps manage shellfish waters

Fall, 2002 (Vol. 4, No. 3)

• VIMS researchers win 5-year, $1.7 million NSF award
• Pair complete 3-year study of clam disease
• VIMS joins National Shark Research Consortium
• McNinch receives Young Investigator award
• Field research sheds light on barndoor skate
• Management is key to scallop fishery's success
• VIMS acquires new code for model
• Yes vote on bond referendum good news for VIMS
• CBNERR announces Summer 2003 educational programs
• Workshop series targets charter boat operators
• Ducklow elected AAAS Fellow
• VIMS takes to the air(port)
• VIMS scientists to host international conferences
• Web update
• VIMS researchers in educational videos
• Hoenig writes "hot paper"
• VIMS and partners win grants to promote ocean education
• VIMS Council elects new officers and members
• VIMS launches campaign
• Dr. Hargis honored
• VIMS mourns loss of community leader

Summer, 2002 (Vol. 4, No. 2)

• To B or not to B: Pair use trout to study kidney's role in nurturing fish immune cells
• VIMS researchers use sonar to study impact of pound nets on sea turtles
• New findings surprise Perkinsus researchers
• VIMS and Wales scientists initiate study of turbulence and sediment movement

Spring, 2002 (Vol. 4, No. 1)

• Computer modelers solve real-world problems
• Scientists take a new look at sources of nitrogen in estuaries
• VIMS beach research reveals erosional hotspots
• Large squid discovered
• VIMS develops new online tools for managers
• Marine industry trends--a tale of two fisheries
• VIMS urges caution in commercial release of non-native oysters
• VIMS scientists part of national study in Antarctica

Fall, 2001 (Vol. 3, No. 2)

• VIMS Named World Reference Laboratory for Shellfish Diseases
• VIMS Scientists Receive 2001 Best Paper Award
• Domestic Interest Grows in Cobia Culture
• VIMS Foundation Established
• VIMS Environmental Scientists Spearheading BDE Research in USA
• VIMS Capital Campaign for Kauffman Aquaculture Center Meets its Goal
• Dr. William Reay Named New Manager of Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve
• Summer Course Connects Scientists with Science Teachers
• Beset near 68 degrees south, 69 degrees west
• New researcher studies tiny organisms that play a big role
• VIMS Welcomes New Students
• VIMS to initiate coastal observing program
• VIMS student Receives Dr. Nancy Foster Scholarship Award
• Virginia Fisheries Trends
• Chef's Symposium
• Can Spray Dredging Help Save Local Marshes?
• VIMS Researchers are Domesticating the Wild Clam
• Dean/Director Made Honorary Fellow at University of Wales Bangor
• Environmental Education for Special People
• It's a Brevenew world for nitrogen research at VIMS
• One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
• Kelley Watson Fellowship
• VIMS Annual Fund Board Host Donor Day
• VIMS Launches New Web Site
• Two Boats Added to Fleet
• Baby Billfish--Figuring Out Who's Who
• Oyster Reef Restoration: How Should Sanctuary Reefs Look?
• Many Questions, Many Perspectives on Non-Native Oysters
• A Variety of Suspension Feeders May Be Assisting Oysters in Filtering Bay Water
• Clean Marina Program Takes Off
• Science and Economics
• Washington Office for W & M

Summer, 2001 (Vol. 3, No. 1)

• VIMS to Begin New Ecosystem Management Study
• CBNERRVA Receives Coastal America Partnership Award
• VIMS Shoreline Permit Application Reports Now Available Online
• Marina Program Launched
• Web Based Education Hub Developed by VIMS/Sea Grant Educators
• In the middle of the storm... where VIMS scientists plan to be
• Continental margins--where the action is
• Aquaculture and agriculture--working together for solutions
• Marine Finfish Culture Activities
• Kauffman Aquaculture Center Campaign
• New Graduate Courses for Science Teachers
• VIMS scientists explore pollution of Antarctic sea ice
• Mid-Atlantic Scallop Closed Areas Set to Reopen
• VIMS study poses new questions on river carbon
• Marine Industry Trends
• Stranded Sea Turtle Program Underway

Summer, 2000 (Vol. 2, No. 2 )

• VIMS Scientists Successfully Spawn Cobia
• NMFS Faculty Position Established at VIMS
• Scientists Discover New Species of Perkinsus
• Researchers Discover New Pollutants Infiltrating Virginia Rivers
• Sea Scallop Research Resumed in June
• MARSH Project Will Help Save Tidal Wetlands
• Virginia's Changing Coastal Community - Indicators of Change
• New Pound-Net Design Spares Young Fish
• VIMS Scientist Studies Oysters in India
• American Shad Focus of Unique Study
• From the Coleman Bridge to Menai Bridge: VIMS Professor Leads Field-Course in Wales
• New Experimental Design Course for Teachers
• Students Teaching Students
• Horseshoe Crab Research is Timely
• Award Winning Bridge Website Receives Renewed Funding from National Oceanographic Partnership Program
• VIMS Stranded Sea Turtle Hotline

Winter, 2000 (Vol. 2, No. 1)

• VIMS Director Invited to Speak in China
• Finfish Aquaculture Updates
• Riparian Buffer Demonstration Sites
• Bay-Sustaining Life Bustling On The Bottom
• New Technology Boosts Billfish Survivability Research
• A Profile of the Aquaculture Molecular Genetics Laboratory: Probing the DNA of the Oyster and its Parasite Perkinsus marinus (Dermo)
• Origin of MSX in Eastern Oyster Documented by VIMS Scientists
• Guess What Really Takes A Blue Crab's Breath Away?
• Catch and Release Symposium Tackles Tough Salt Water Fishing Issues
• Teaching Marsh Update
• Oyster Reef Habitat Restoration Book now Available
• Future Alterations to the Yangzi Estuary

Summer, 1999 (Vol. 1, No. 2 )

• New Research Aquarium System
• Finfish Aquaculture at VIMS
• Virginia Creates State Research Reserve System
• Pollution-Laden Sediments In Constant Flux
• Survey of Mid-Atlantic Sea Scallop Closed Areas
• Pfiesteria Update
• New Computer Program Helps Planners Balance Growth, Protection
• Virginia Sea Grant to Administer Commercial Fishery Resource Program
• VIMS Stranded Sea Turtle Project Underway
• Coastal Sediments Offer Clues to Climate Change, Pollution
• Seemingly Barren Habitat Proves Vital for Economically Important Virginia Fish (juvenile flounder) 

Winter, 1999 (Vol. 1, No. 1)

• Experimental Fishery on Georges Bank Holds Promise for the Scallop Industry
• New VIMS Center Boosts Aquafarming
• Invader Threatens Stressed Ecosystem (Rapa Whelk)
• Microscopic Phytoplankton Live Large
• Reality By the Numbers (Computer Modeling)
• Tautog Research
• Latest Returns From the Game Fish Tagging Program
• Educational Landscape Center (VIMS Teaching Marsh)
• Responding to the Chesapeake Executive Council Directive for Wetlands Protection and Restoration Goals
• Dangers to Blue Crabs Accelerating