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 ,
Lifetime Learning: Coastal Water Quality
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
20 Years of Seagrass Restoration
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
A Sea Change for the Eastern Shore of Virginia
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
VCR LTER Seagrass Research Highlighted
The LTER Network News features a new story on “Can seagrass meadows mitigate climate change?” that focuses on VCR LTER research examining how seagrass impact the global carbon cycle. The article is at: https://lternet.edu/stories/seagrass-meadows-climate-change
Ian Reeves Receives Student Modeler Award
VCR/LTER graduate student Ian Reeves will receive the Jaia Syvitski Student Modeler Award for 2020, and will be giving a keynote presentation at the CSDMS meeting. The award is given by the Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System (CSDMS) at their annual meeting in Boulder CO, May 19-21, 2020 and recognizes outstanding achievement in surface modeling, with a focus on how modelling is used to address scientific and societal challenges. Entries were judged on the basis of ingenuity, applicability, and contribution toward the advancement of geoscience modeling.