Where We Work

Our Research and Activity in Virginia

State-Related Research Projects

• Forecasting Chesapeake Bay Fishery Resources
• Determining the Cause of Endocrine Disruption in the Tributaries of the Shenandoah River
• Restoring our Nation’s Wetlands using MAPTITE: A Marsh Analysis and Planning Tool Incorporating Tides and Elevation
• Bacterial and Pharmaceutical Pollution from Agricultural Lands in the Chesapeake Bay
• Shallow Water Hypoxia: Tipping the Balance for Individual Animals, Populations, and Ecosystems
• Land Use and Ecosystem Health: Decision-Making Tools for Coastal Planning in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
• Coastal Ecological Assessments and Indicator Development
• National Phytoplankton Monitoring Network
• Atlantic Coastal Fish Habitat Database: Construction, Documentation and Use
• National Fish Habitat Action Plan (NFHAP) Coastal Assessment
• The EcoGIS Project— Tools for Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management

Recent Related News and Headlines

• NCCOS Staff Member Advises Fishery Management Council on Coral Conservation Issues
• Why Do Some Jellyfish Bloom? A New Theory Emerges
• Recreational Water Pathogen Detection Workshops Build Skills for State Labs
• Project Finds Fish Prefer Natural Shorelines
• Hardening of Shorelines in the Mid-Atlantic Focus of Meeting
• Study Shows Smaller Late Summer Dead Zone in the Chesapeake
• New Pollution Scoring System Helps Identify Top Targets for Clean-Up
• Researchers Examine Night and Day Swings in Oxygen Depletion on Finfish and Oyster Habitat
• New Research Aims to Unravel How Nutrients Drive Toxic “Brown Tides”
• Invasive Sea Squirts Threaten Shellfish Aquaculture
• Toxic Free Radical Produced by Pfiesteria piscicida: A New Paradigm in Marine Toxins
• Assessment Quantifies Extent of Sediment Contamination, Toxicity in Chesapeake Bay