Virginia Coast Reserve Long-Term Ecological Research
Ecological Research on a High-Speed Landscape: Developing a predictive understanding of how long-term change and short-term disturbance control the dynamic nature of coastal barrier landscapes.
Spend your summer doing real science as part of a collaboration among world-class researchers studying the last coastal wilderness on the East Coast.
Applications are due February 11, 2024
See: https://www.abcrc.virginia.edu/siteman2/index.php/2024/01/09/2024-summer-research-experiences-for-undergraduates-applications-are-open/ for details .
VCR/LTER Investigator Matt Kirwan was featured in a segment of CBS Mornings on April 21, 2023. You can view it at:
A new “Storymap” has been developed to display differences for Cobb, Hog, Wreck, Ship Shoal and Myrtle Islands. It uses high resolution data from the Virginia Base Mapping Project. You can access it at: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/71d432c7f1334f9d8a8ab250ebf90717
Information on the 2023 Research Experience for Undergraduates opportunities at the VCR LTER can be found at: https://www.abcrc.virginia.edu/siteman2/index.php/2023/01/12/2023vcrreus/
With the goal of making VCR data accessible to stakeholders in the community and to eventually facilitate bringing VCR data into the classroom, VCR Graduate student Sean Hardison has created a new data visualization app for interactively viewing data from the Oyster Meteorological and Tide Stations http://vcr.uvadcos.io/ . The interactive app allows you to view up to two variables simultaneously vs time. The variables available for viewing include, temperature (air and water), relative tide level, wind speeds and precipitation events. They can be aggregated by the month, week, day and hour. The underlying technology is the open source Shiny R package that generates on-the-fly visualizations from the latest VCR/LTER data.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/06/ecologist-thinks-coastal-wetlands-can-outrun-rising-seas-not-everyone-s-convinced has an article on the controversy regarding the response of salt marshes to sea-level rise that features VCR/LTER researcher Matt Kirwan and several other researchers and students working at the VCR/LTER.
The Coastal & Estuarine Research Foundation Newsletter recently highlighted a paper by Matt Oreska, Karen McGlathery, Pat Wiberg, Robert Orth and David Wilcox on the seagrass restoration project on the Virginia Coast. You can read the summary at: https://cerf.memberclicks.net/cesn-march-2021#Article4 and read the paper at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-020-00881-3 ,
Scott Doney, the Joe D. and Helen J. Kington Professor in Environmental Change at the University of Virginia gave a podcast on Coastal Water Quality. You can view it at: https://soundcloud.com/user-648419957/coastal-water-quality
WVTF (“RadioIQ”) has a piece about the 20-year Seagrass Restoration (the world’s largest) in the coastal bays of the Virginia coast. VCR/LTER PI Karen McGlathery was interviewed for this piece: https://www.wvtf.org/post/seagrass-meadows-restored-eastern-shore#stream/0
The UVA Arts & Sciences Magazine has a story about VCR/LTER Graduate Student Victoria Long and her family history on the Eastern Shore, extending back 400 years and its relation to rising sea level. You can see it at: http://give.as.virginia.edu/news/story/sea-change-eastern-shore