Congratulations to Molly Mitchell for winning the Applied Ecol. Resources|Ecol. Solutions & Evidence Chico Mendes Prize!👏

Molly worked with local managers to build an estimate model of marsh migration to prioritise #management areas amidst rising sea levels – combining #science with on-the-ground #practice !🌊

The study from @vims_news shows that extreme water temperatures associated with marine heatwaves last longer than previously known, exhibit subsurface seasonal patterns and are associated with the expansion of hypoxic zones.

news.wm.edu/2024/03/26/une…

Last Wednesday, about 60 collaborators and colleagues in the region came together for the Middle Peninsula Restoration Workshop at Virginia Institute of Marine Science!

Wahoo! Made the cover. Look at the boss of crab!

Climate changes relationships:
After a marine heatwave, fiddler crabs migrated north. There they reduced plant growth, the opposite of what they usually to do.

#climatechange

Virginia Institute of Marine Science @nsf Plum Island LTER

Excited to share my first first-author pub: rdcu.be/dtX7p. Landward migration of open-ocean coasts 1) leads to rapid rates of carbon erosion, dominated by C in lagoon sediments; and 2) spells trouble for the entire coastal system to continue functioning as a net C sink

As waters are warming, Cape Cod may eventually have no cod. Through his work as a co-PI with Virginia Institute of Marine Science Professor Roger Mann, CGA at W&M student Garrett Bellin ’25 is addressing fisheries management challenges and influencing industry partners’ decisions.

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The Coastal Ecogeomorphology Lab Virginia Institute of Marine Science, William & Mary, is seeking a fully funded PhD student to investigate the ecological and geomorphic impacts of sea level rise on coastal landscapes in collaboration with USGS Woods Hole. [email protected] for details.

Just over two weeks left to apply for the VIMS RAISE Postdoctoral Fellowship: Learn more: vims.edu/research/units…