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Aquaculture

Virginia Sea Grant Launches the USDA and NOAA-Supported Aquaculture Information Exchange Online Community Platform

The Aquaculture Information Exchange (AIE) online community platform website is now live and open for new user registrations. The AIE represents a joint effort between NOAA’s National Sea Grant Office, NOAA’s Fisheries Office of Aquaculture, USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS), USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), and Virginia Sea Grant.

October 26, 2023

Academia to Government

Sea Grant Announces the 2024 Class of the John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Sea Grant College Program (Sea Grant) is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2024 class of the John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship program. The 85 early-career professionals selected will be placed in federal government offices throughout Washington, D.C., and join the over 1,600 individuals who have participated in the program since its inception in 1979.

September 15, 2023

Maryland

Researcher Examines Best Practices for Managing Biodiversity and Blue Carbon in the Face of Barrier Island Migration and Sea Level Rise

Sea level rates in the Chesapeake and coastal bays are rising at about twice the national average. Climate change is making storms more intense. This

April 27, 2022

Virginia

Virginia Sea Grant extension facilitates streamlining of environmental policies

With the direction of staff from NOAA and Virginia’s Coastal Zone Management Program, Virginia Sea Grant extension partners at the Virginia Coastal Policy Center (VCPC) drafted updated

April 14, 2022

50th Anniversary

Graduate Education: With Sea Grantâ€™s help, student learns value of science communication

Virginia Sea Grant’s Advanced Science Communication Seminar challenged graduate student scientists to develop a communication tool that explains their research to the public. One graduate student’s infographic about sea turtle strandings ended up crossing institutional boundaries.

August 23, 2016

Announcements

Hampton Roads Adaptation Forum Helps Norfolk’s “Green Infrastructure” Team Secure $4.6M Grant

Virginia Sea Grant's Hampton Roads Adaptation Forum is a networking and educational meeting for professionals working on sea level rise adaptation. A recent survey of attendees indicates that 83% have built professional relationships through the Forum, leading to new opportunities.

September 17, 2015

Oysters

Aquaculture

Sea Grant Researchers Find a Surprising Possible Advantage of Oyster Disease Tolerance

Sea Grant funded-researchers from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science may have found a positive side to an oyster parasite and its impact on vibrios bacteria.

March 23, 2015

Virginia Sea Grant

Announcements

Virginia Sea Grant achieves College Status

On Thursday, December 18, Virginia Sea Grant will be receiving the highest accreditation level: College Status. The award recognizes Virginia Sea Grant’s excellence in enhancing the ecological, economic, and social sustainability of Virginia's coasts and oceans.

December 16, 2014

Stephanie Smallegan

Education

Strengthening Networks and Sharing Knowledge on Virginiaâ€™s Coasts

Virginia Sea Grant helps fellows connect their research with end-users giving them the opportunity to experience the importance of considering stakeholder engagement from start to finish.

December 8, 2014

Research on Effects of Climate Change on Distribution of Summer Flounder

Climate

Research on Effects of Climate Change on Distribution of Summer Flounder

Mid-Atlantic Sea Grant research funded a project that is looking at the shifting distribution of summer flounder under climate change conditions, including some bio-economic modeling to examine the economic impact of that shift.

December 6, 2014

Resiliency Design project in Hampton Roads

Climate and Hazard Adaptation

Resiliency Design Project in Hampton Roads

The lead coordinating organization is Wetlands Watch, working with architects at Hampton University, builders from the Hampton Roads Green Building Council, Urban Land Institute, and a suite of engineers. They are focused on Chesterfield Heights neighborhood in Norfolk, and will be creating specific designs for a more resilient Chesterfield Heights.

December 6, 2014

Faculty of Practice

Climate

Hampton Roads Sea Level Rise and Flooding Adaptation Forum

December 6, 2014

FutureCoast Sea Level Rise Web-Based Tool

Climate

FutureCoast Sea Level Rise Web-Based Tool

This was developed through a mid-Atlantic Sea Level Rise project we secured from Coastal Services Center (CSC). It was applied in Annapolis, and they explored its application in Hampton Roads, but it was too early in the evolution of the issues in Hampton Roads to use here. That is, this tool shows climate impacts at the individual lot level and the Hampton Roads citizenry and local elected officials were not ready to see, hear, realize that then (~2011). We are ready now and because we took an incremental approach with our community, we have been able to leap frog some of the challenges that other states faced and Fall 2014 we held a workshop with the real estate community.

December 6, 2014

Selecting a Better Oyster – Part 3

Part 3 of the 3 part series 'Selecting a Better Oyster'. Scientists at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science's Aquaculture Genetics and Breeding Technology Center look into how traits from parent oysters are passed to their offspring in hopes of improving Virgina's oyster aquaculture industry.

August 8, 2013

Chesapeake Bay Oyster Company.

Aquaculture

Selecting a Better Oyster – Part 2

This is art 2 in a 3 part series 'Selecting a Better Oyster'. Virginia Sea Grant-funded research gets more profitable oysters in the hands of growers.

July 10, 2013

Selecting a Better Oyster – Part I

Part 1 of a 3 part series 'Building a Better Oyster'. Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) Aquaculture Genetics and Breeding Technology Center helps take the oyster aquaculture industry to the next level.

May 9, 2013