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386                                            Purple marsh crabs are significantly disrupting carbon cycling in salt marshes along the East Coast of the U.S., according to a&#160;study led by Batten School &amp; VIMS scientists.
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454<p>The R. Todd Stravitz Scholars Program will provide full tuition support for students pursuing the new bachelor&#8217;s degree in coastal &amp; marine sciences at the Batten School &amp; VIMS.</p>
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600                                            <p>National TRAP Program funds large-scale cleanup of discarded fishing gear, first round of subawards totaling more than $1.4M supports 11 projects focused on removing derelict fishing gear from coastal waters in nine U.S. states and Palau.</p>
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1156                <span class="o-vims-news__in-the-news">In the News</span>
1157                <span class="o-vims-news__card-heading">How Small Dollar Donations Make a Critical Difference for Scientists and Students at W&amp;M’s VIMS &amp; Batten School</span>
1158                <span class="o-vims-news__card-text">
1159Ph.D. student Matt McCormick's research has directly benefitted from the collective power of small dollar donations. That's why, during W&amp;M's most recent One Tribe One Day giving event, he made his own small dollar gift to VIMS &amp; the Batten School.
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1176                  <img alt="Bangor University instructor Charlotte Colvin helps students pull in seine net on Cedar Island beach." src="/newsandevents/topstories/2026/_images/bangor/55529878546_a9c1a9bad9_k_wm-events-image1000x668.jpg"/>
1177                </div>
1178                <span class="o-vims-news__in-the-news">In the News</span>
1179                <span class="o-vims-news__card-heading">Bangor University Field Course at the VIMS Eastern Shore Laboratory Dazzles International Students</span>
1180                <span class="o-vims-news__card-text">Explore how UK-based Bangor University's long-running partnership with William &amp; Mary&#8217;s VIMS Eastern Shore Laboratory gives marine science students hands-on fieldwork experience&#8212;from seining and crab studies to independent pilot research projects.</span>
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1196                  <img alt="Divers with National Marine Sanctuary Foundation bring derelict spiny lobster traps to the surface using air-filled buoys. " src="/_homepage/home_feature-box/nmsf-trap-homepage.jpg"/>
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1198                <span class="o-vims-news__in-the-news">In The News</span>
1199                <span class="o-vims-news__card-heading">TRAP Program Funds 11 New Projects, Expands National Impact</span>
1200                <span class="o-vims-news__card-text">After recovering more than 600,000 pounds of lost fishing traps in just two years, the Nationwide Fishing Trap, Removal Assessment and Prevention (TRAP) Program is announcing 11 new coastal clean up projects in seven states.</span>
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1216                  <img alt="Aerial image of seagrasses in Mobjack Bay." src="/_homepage/home_feature-box/2025-sav-survey-homepage.jpg"/>
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1218                <span class="o-vims-news__in-the-news">In The News</span>
1219                <span class="o-vims-news__card-heading">Bay Grasses Increase 7%, Buoyed by Gains in Salty Waters</span>
1220                <span class="o-vims-news__card-text">Submerged aquatic vegetation, one of the Chesapeake Bay&#8217;s most important indicators of ecosystem health, increased by 7% to its highest level since 2018, according to researchers at William &amp; Mary&#8217;s VIMS &amp;
1220 Batten School.</span>
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1236                  <img alt="Graduate students joined VIMS &amp; Batten School faculty on the Eastern Shore as part of their orientation. Photo by Candace Johnson." src="/newsandevents/topstories/2026/_images/2026-new-students/grads-esl-hero.jpg"/>
1237                </div>
1238                <span class="o-vims-news__in-the-news">In The News</span>
1239                <span class="o-vims-news__card-heading">A Wave of New Students Arrives at William &amp; Mary’s VIMS &amp; the Batten School</span>
1240                <span class="o-vims-news__card-text">32 new students are joining VIMS &amp; the Batten School this fall, including 18 graduate students entering M.A., M.S. and Ph.D. programs and 14 undergraduate students entering as the second cohort of Stravitz Scholars majoring in coastal and marine sciences.</span>
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1256                  <img alt="Participants in the first session of the VIMS ESL Seaside Scholars summer camp program." src="/newsandevents/topstories/2026/_images/seaside-scholars/seaside_in-text-1.png"/>
1257                </div>
1258                <span class="o-vims-news__in-the-news">In the News</span>
1259                <span class="o-vims-news__card-heading">Seaside Scholars Summer Camp Inspires Eastern Shore Students to Discover Marine Science in Their Own Backyard</span>
1260                <span class="o-vims-news__card-text">Seaside Scholars is a free summer day camp hosted by W&amp;M's VIMS Eastern Shore Laboratory which gives young learners the opportunity to spend several days exploring local marine organisms and habitats, including dogfish shark dissections and marsh survey research.</span>
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1276                  <img alt="VIMS Eastern Shore Laboratory" src="/newsandevents/topstories/2026/_images/esl-director/esl-director_in-text-1.png"/>
1277                </div>
1278                <span class="o-vims-news__in-the-news">In the News</span>
1279                <span class="o-vims-news__card-heading">New Director Brings Global Perspective to VIMS Eastern Shore Laboratory</span>
1280                <span class="o-vims-news__card-text">Stacy Krueger-Hadfield is now the fifth director at W&amp;M's VIMS Eastern Shore Laboratory. She joined VIMS ESL in 2024 as assistant director and an associate professor at the Batten School, bringing an international academic background and robust research program.</span>
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1296                  <img alt="Picture of the Old Point Comfort Marina docks. " src="/_homepage/home_feature-box/old-point-homepage.jpg"/>
1297                </div>
1298                <span class="o-vims-news__in-the-news">In the News</span>
1299                <span class="o-vims-news__card-heading">W&amp;M’s VIMS Assumes State Administration of Boating Infrastructure Grant Program </span>
1300                <span class="o-vims-news__card-text">As Virginia&#8217;s new administrator of the Boating Infrastructure Grant Program, W&amp;M&#8217;s VIMS will help citizens, businesses and municipalities apply for these federal funds aimed at improving public boating infrastructure.</span>
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1316                  <img alt="Periods of sustained warming can last for weeks to months at a time, with a distinct marine heatwave embedded between them and significant implications for estuarine ecosystems and habitats like seagrass beds. Photograph by Jon Lefcheck." src="/newsandevents/topstories/2026/_images/embedded-heatwaves/lefcheck_seagrassbed_sunlight.jpeg"/>
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1318                <span class="o-vims-news__in-the-news"></span>
1319                <span class="o-vims-news__card-heading"> A Longer, Hotter Reality Surrounds Marine Heatwaves, New Study Finds</span>
1320                <span class="o-vims-news__card-text">New research led by William &amp; Mary's VIMS &amp; Batten School provides a framework to characterize an ecosystem&#8217;s cumulative heat exposure from marine heatwaves and the extended periods of warm water that precede and follow them.</span>
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1336                  <img alt="E.C. Hogg (front) and Ralph Bonniville (back) are TRAP participants who gather bathymetric data. Photo credit: John Wallace." src="/newsandevents/topstories/2026/_images/noaa-bathymetry-partnership/bathymetry_in-text-1.png"/>
1337                </div>
1338                <span class="o-vims-news__in-the-news">In the News</span>
1339                <span class="o-vims-news__card-heading">W&amp;M’s VIMS &amp; Batten School Partner with NOAA to Expand Access to Shallow Water Mapping Data in the Chesapeake Bay</span>
1340                <span class="o-vims-news__card-text">A new partnership between W&amp;M&#8217;s VIMS &amp; Batten School and NOAA is turning routine vessel operations and lost crab trap removal into a new source of valuable bathymetric data. The organizations are collaborating with watermen to track shallow water data as they retrieve derelict crab pots.</span>
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1396                    <h2 class="o-vims-pillars__main-title">What We Do</h2>
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