Centers, Labs & Programs

VIMS has established a variety of research centers, programs, laboratory groups, and partnerships to address immediate and long-term issues in marine science.  All share the common goals of providing superior research capabilities in marine and coastal sciences in collaboration with industry and governmental agencies. They support graduate student education and enhance rapid technology transfer from the Institute to commercial groups, coastal managers, and decisionmakers within Virginia and beyond.

Centers and Partners

• Aquaculture Genetics and Breeding Technology Center (ABC)
• Center for Coastal Resources Management (CCRM)
• Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (CBNERR)
• Eastern Shore Laboratory (ESL)
• Kauffman Aquaculture Center (KAC)
• NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office in Virginia (NCBO)
• Virginia Sea Grant

Programs

Programs are long-term, formalized research collaborations that employ dedicated staff. VIMS programs are funded by the Virginia General Assembly or by state and federal agencies.

• Chesapeake Bay Multispecies Monitoring & Assessment Program
• Gamefish Tagging Program
• Initiative for Coastal Climate Change Research (ICCCR)
• Juvenile Abundance Monitoring Surveys
• Juvenile Striped Bass Seine Survey
• OIE Reference Laboratory (Shellfish Diseases)
• Sea Turtle Stranding Program
• Shark Research Program
• Shoreline Studies Program
• Submerged Aquatic Vegetation Program
• VECOS (Virginia Estuarine & Coastal Observing System)

Laboratory Groups

Laboratory groups are research units within an academic department that are typically headed by one or more faculty members and include technicians and graduate students.

• Aquatic Animal Health
• Benthic Ecology
• Biochemical Toxicology
• Chesapeake Bay Multispecies Monitoring & Assessment Program
• Chesapeake Bay Observing Systems - VIMS Real-time DataBuoy
• Chesapeake Bay Trophic Interaction Laboratory Services (CTILS)
• Coastal Hydrodynamics and Sediment Dynamics (CHSD)
• Community Ecology
• Community Sediment Transport Initiative (CSTI)
• Crustacean Diseases
• Ecosystem Modeling
• Ecotoxicology
• Elizabeth River - Transport and Fate of Sediment / Contaminants
• Elizabeth River Tributyltin Monitoring Program
• Environmental Chemistry
• Environmental Health
• Environmental Microbiology
• Fish & Shellfish Immunity
• Fish & Shellfish Nutrition
• Fish Collection
• Fisheries Genetics Program
• Histopathology
• Juvenile Abundance Monitoring Surveys
• Juvenile Striped Bass Seine Survey
• Linking Benthic Community Structure and Ecosystem Function
• Marine Biodiversity
• Molluscan Ecology Program
• Multispecies Research
• Oyster Pathobiology
• Pelican Group - R/V Pelican
• Pfiesteria spp. research
• Phytoplankton Ecology
• Risk Assessment
• Shellfish Pathology Laboratory
• Shoreline Studies Program
• Submerged Aquatic Vegetation
• Tagging Research
• VA-DEQ Elizabeth River Tributyltin Monitoring Program
• Zooplankton Ecology

Projects

Projects are one-time, grant-funded activities that result in written report(s) or other information products. They are conducted within and by centers, partners, programs, departments, labs, or other administrative units at VIMS.

• Beach Erosion Hotspots
• Chesapeake Bay Breakwaters
• Chesapeake Bay Dunes
• Chesapeake Bay Trophic Interaction Laboratory Services (CTILS)
• Controls on Ross Sea Algal Community Structure (CORSACS)
• Craney Island Eastward Expansion (CIEE)
• DIWASP - random images generated using the DIWASP model
• Ecology of Solitary and Colonial Antarctic phaeocystis (ESCAP)
• Elizabeth River Tributyltin Monitoring Program
• ERNESTO: Anatomy of a Storm Tide
• Geochronology - Sediment Geochronology and Seabed Processes
• Harbor Processes / Marine Environmental Quality (MEQ)
• Interannual Variations in the Ross Sea, Antarctica (IVARS)
• Menhaden Research
• Mycobacteriosis in striped bass
• New York Bight - Contaminants and Marine Geology
• Nitrogen Fixation in the Gulf of Mexico
• Organic Matter in Chesapeake Bay (ORGANIC)
• Palmer Long-Term Ecological Research, Antarctic Peninsula (PAL-LTER)
• RIDE Wave Transformation Model
• Sea Coast and Sea Level Trends
• Striped Bass Assessment and Disease Research Program
• Striped Bass Disease Impacts: Tagging Study Information
• Tides & Currents (TC) Tutorial
• "The Tide Next Time"
• Three Faces of Isabel
• WAVE CLIMATE - Directional Wave Data, Lower Chesapeake Bay