Virginia Institute of Marine Science

(VIMS)

Using science to…

Increase oyster and clam production

Model Bay dynamics

Identify aquatic disease

Reduce billfish by-catch

Trace contaminants

Understand food web production

Increase blue crab populations

Explore bottom dwellers

Restore seagrass

Strengthen natural stocks

Investigate coastal erosion

Understand nutrient cycles

The Nation’s leading research facility focusing on coastal and estuarine science

Since 1940, ...