Craig L. Smith Memorial Educational Scholarship Endowment

The income from this endowment is used to support an academically distinguished graduate student with demonstrated financial need at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science or applied for the best use of the graduate studies program at the discretion of the Dean and Director.

In recent years, it has been awarded to a graduate student applying for funding through the GSA mini-grant program.

Named in memory of Professor Craig L. Smith, Associate Professor of Marine Science in the Department of Environmental Sciences, this fund was established by friends of the late Professor Smith to provide scholarship assistance for an academically distinguished graduate student with demonstrated financial need at VIMS.

Professor Smith came to the Institute to study environmental chemistry and motion of oil spills in coastal waters. He later worked on the organic geochemistry of contaminated Coastal Atlantic sediments. Professor Smith also is responsible for the creation of the Toxics database for the Department of Environmental Quality. This system allows one to access analytical data regarding toxic chemicals found in samples from the Chesapeake Bay along with ancillary data regarding location, date, etc.