VIMS Internal Events

This is a general information session for those considering applying for a Fulbright Scholarship to spend 2016-17 abroad. If you are already working with the Peer Scholarship Advisors, please meet with them rather than coming to this session.

"Resuspension and Oxygen Consumption: A Coupled Model for the Rhone River Delta", by Julia Moriarty, VIMS

Do you have an idea for a sustainability project or research? Green Fee Proposals are due October 1! Make your proposal the best it can be or learn the basics now for later! September 10, 12-1pm, Sadler Center: York Room. Questions? [[waterslake]]

Dr. Chelsea M. Rochman, David H. Smith Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UC Davis, will explore the chemical contaminants associated with plastic pollution in aquatic habitats.

Chelsea Rochman, a David H. Smith Conservation Research fellow at the University of California-Davis, will present a seminar titled "Plastic and priority pollutants in aquatic habitats: a chemical cockTALE".

"Efforts to Improve the Health and Resilience of the Great Barrier Reef...", by Michael St. John Warne, Queensland Department of Science, Information Technology, Innovation and the Arts, Australia, hosted by Mike Unger

All parts of the Fulbright Full Grant application must be submitted on line by noon on Monday, September 21.

Dr. Robert Humston of Washington and Lee University will discuss the scale and ontogeny of fish dispersal in river networks during the Fisheries Science noon seminar series.

"Tidal Flat Morphodynamics", by Carl Friedrichs, VIMS

Join VIMS professor Deborah Steinberg as she continues VIMS' 75th anniversary lecture series by introducing the film that tells the behind-the-scenes story of long-term ecological research at Palmer Station on the West Antarctic Peninsula.

VIMS Professor John Graves will discuss transatlantic movements of juvenile Atlantic Bluefin Tuna inferred from analyses of organochlorine tracers during the Fisheries Science noon seminar series.

This workshop is designed to provide tips and discussion about classroom practices that support international students.

Mark Devries, director of "Speciesism: The Movie" (2013) and creator of the "Citizen Drone Project", will examine environmental problems associated with CAFOs today. Opening talk by Jeff Kelble, President of the Potomac Riverkeeper Network.