The Elizabeth Zintl Leadership Award is presented in memory of Elizabeth Zintl, an accomplished writer and journalist who served as Chief of Staff in the Office of the President at the University of Virginia. The Zintl Award celebrates the leadership that is found in many areas and positions at UVA. This year’s recipient is Karen McGlathery in recognition of her high degree of professionalism, creativity, and commitment that best reflect Elizabeth Zintl’s significant contributions to the University. You can learn more about Karen in the article linked below.
Barrier Islands on the Front Line of Climate Change
Julie Zinnert and her team are featured in an article and WHRO/NPR radio piece on the Virginia Barrier Islands. The link is: https://www.whro.org/environment/2024-09-11/researchers-are-looking-to-virginias-barrier-islands-on-the-front-lines-of-climate-change-for-answers
Former VCR/LTER Post-Doc Now Constructs Kelp Reefs
PBS has a feature on the activities of Rachel Smith, a former VCR/LTER Post-Doc and member of the Castorani lab. She’s working on restoring a kelp forest by creating a reef off southern California to mitigate impacts of a nuclear power plant.
Research Experience for Undergraduates Opportunity
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 .
CBS Story on Ghost Forests
VCR/LTER Investigator Matt Kirwan was featured in a segment of CBS Mornings on April 21, 2023. You can view it at:
Visualizing Island Changes 2002-2021
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
Research Experience For Undergraduates
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/
New VCR LTER Data Visualization App
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.
Matt Kirwan Profiled in Science Mag.
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.
CERF Highlights VCR/LTER Seagrass Research
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 ,