2009 Annual Report

The Virginia Institute of Marine Science July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2009 1 Letter from the Dean & Director

Dear Friends of VIMS:

The 2009 fiscal year was one of This year also saw construction begin classes ever: 27 new students, 3 Group, part of the U.S. Climate challenges for VIMS, as it has been on a new concrete pier to replace the of whom had perfect scores on the Change Science Program that for higher education throughout pair of wooden piers that had been quantitative portion of the Graduate coordinates research among 13 federal the Commonwealth and nation. damaged by recent storms. Record exams. agencies. Professor John Graves was appointed to the Department of At the same time, it was a year of We welcomed faculty member Dr. Students and faculty continued to Commerce’s top advisory body for significant achievements for the VIMS Aaron Beck into the Department of garner awards and recognition. the management of commercial and community, and a year in which our Physical Sciences. He received his Several graduate students received recreational fisheries in U.S. waters. generous donors helped us maintain Ph.D. from Stony Brook University awards for oral and poster Professor Eugene Burreson received cutting-edge research and provided and joined us after doing post-doctoral presentations at regional and national the Honored Life Member Award from critical support for our students. work at the Max Planck Institute in meetings. Heidi Geisz was among the National Shellfisheries Association In April we were honored by the Germany. A geochemist, he will be a handful of graduate students for outstanding contributions to the presence of many dignitaries, developing a trace-metal research nationwide selected to participate field of shellfish biology. Professors including Cynthia Andrews, when program to examine the health of in the 32nd-annual Antarctic Treaty Roger Mann and James Bauer we dedicated Andrews Hall and our Chesapeake Bay and the coastal Consultative Meeting, which marked served on Governor Kaine’s Climate Seawater Research Laboratory. The ocean. This work will have important the 50th anniversary of the Treaty’s Change Commission. Because of lab, with an “acre under a roof,” is implications for the food web and signing and the conclusion of the Hampton Roads’ vulnerability to one of the largest facilities of its kind human health. International Polar Year. anywhere. Together, these buildings climate-change impacts and vital During the year, 20 students received Professor Deborah Bronk was provide 110,000 square feet of importance to our economy and their Master’s degrees and 14 received appointed to a 2-year term on the cutting-edge research and office national security, planning for climate their Ph.D. This past spring we Carbon Cycle Science Working space—our largest capital project ever. change is a strategic imperative for the accepted one of the best incoming Commonwealth and federal agencies. Another sign of VIMS’ health as a scientific institution is its ranking in an analysis of the worldwide scientific literature by Thomson Reuters. It shows the work of VIMS professors Deborah Steinberg and James Bauer helps define a “research front” in the cover photo by ???????? biological effects of ocean chemistry. A recent view of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science campus in Gloucester Point, VA, showing the green space created by the demolition of Brooke, Davis, and Byrd halls. 2 Generous donors who have Foundation and a pledge to continue I especially want to thank our committee hosted a great evening established fellowship endowments these camps for the next four years. energetic volunteer leadership for that brought in funds to support our have allowed the VIMS Foundation Camps were offered to students from all that they do: Carroll Owens, Jr., students. to support 12 students from 10 1st through 8th grade. Their activities President of the VIMS Foundation, During the 2010-2011 fiscal year we endowment funds in the 2009-2010 are pictured in this report and provide has worked with a dedicated board will look ahead to celebrate the 10th academic year. This support is ever a wonderful way for VIMS to reach overseeing the Foundation in these Anniversary of the VIMS Foundation, more critical as stipends for VIMS out to the children and families of our challenging times. Bob Roper, the and as state funding declines, we graduate students lag behind those of surrounding community. new Chair of the VIMS Council, hope we can count on our friends and our competitors. A highly unusual gift In late 2007, the VIMS Foundation contributed to the VIMS Strategic donors to continue their vital support. occurred when David Clifford donated Plan and led an effort to align the Board decided to join the William and Thank you all! the assets of his firm Fetch LLC to Mary Investment Trust (WAMIT) to Council’s working committees with VIMS and the College of William and handle the Foundation’s investable it. Maurice “Mo” Lynch, alumnus and Mary, including several autonomous assets. Foundation assets have grown emeritus professor, has led an effort to Dean and Director underwater vehicles and a patent significantly in the last several years, increase alumni support of the Annual for the “brains” of these exploratory even though they decreased due to Fund, which is more critical to VIMS robots. In 2009, we were also honored market conditions in FY 2009 as than ever. Tammy Bacot chaired the to receive a bequest from long-time reflected in the financial pages of this 2009 VIMS Art Auction. She and her VIMS friend and former VIMS report. Council member Matthew (Tim) Blackwood, a yachtsman and lover of Chesapeake Bay. The bequest totaled more than $100,000, and income from the new Blackwood Endowment will support VIMS’ greatest needs from year to year. This type of support is a great vote of confidence in VIMS’ future success, and we are deeply grateful to Tim. From L to R: VIMS Council Chair Bob Roper with former Virginia The summer of 2009 saw the launch Governor A. Linwood Holton and VIMS Dean and Director John of five weeklong summer camps made From L to R: Eastern Shore Sculptor William Turner, William and Wells during Holton’s book signing ceremony at VIMS. Governor possible by a private gift to the VIMS Mary President Taylor Reveley, and VIMS Foundation President Holton served from 1970-1974 and has been a member of the VIMS Carroll Owens at the VIMS Art Auction. Council since 2001. 3 Science for Society These selected news stories highlight the many ways in which VIMS researchers use financial support from state, federal, and private sources to provide knowledge and solutions to the challenges facing our marine resources. Researchers create interactive map of Bay efforts to recover these “ghost pots” and further reduce grasses their inadvertent trapping of Bay wildlife. VIMS researchers have created an interactive map that The program paid out-of-work crab dredgers to use allows web users to see the coverage of underwater side-imaging sonar to detect and retrieve abandoned grasses in Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries. crab pots and other marine debris from the bay floor. Watermen were paid a daily rate for their efforts and The tool, created using Google MapsSM by researchers compensated for their fuel costs. in the Submerged Aquatic Vegetation (SAV) program at VIMS, is designed to help resource managers, “The watermen were a pleasure to work with and scientists, and citizens better track and visualize bay- showed a real eagerness to help clean up the Bay,” said grass restoration efforts. It is available on-line at VIMS project leader Dr. Kirk Havens. web.vims.edu/bio/sav/maps. To date, the program has recovered more than 8,600 Underwater grasses serve vital functions in coastal crab pots, along with 61 abandoned nets and other ecosystems. They shelter young striped bass, blue SAV interactive map at web.vims.edu/bio/sav/maps. debris. crabs, and other key species; improve water clarity; Many of the pots had been derelict for several years, oxygenate the water; reduce erosion; and provide food continuing to trap and kill crabs, fish, eels, turtles, and for waterfowl. other wildlife. Each functional crab pot can capture and Professor Robert “JJ” Orth, head of the SAV program kill about 50 crabs a year. at VIMS, says access to the new map is much faster About 20% of crab pots are lost due to storms or boat than previous offerings. In addition, the map displays propellers that accidentally cut the pots free from their charts showing the coverage of underwater grasses in buoys. particular areas from 1970 until present. Biosensors promise new era in marine “Ghost Pot” program benefits Bay and research watermen VIMS researchers Steve Kaattari and Mike Unger are Researchers with the Center for Coastal Resources tapping the immune system’s power—and the latest Management at VIMS head up Virginia’s one-of-a-kind advances in electronic instruments—to address pressing program to remove derelict crab traps from Chesapeake issues in marine science. Bay. The pair combines specially designed antibodies The program, funded by federal blue crab disaster with digital instruments to create “biosensors” that relief funds through the Virginia Marine Resources Chesapeake Bay waterman and his dog check hold promise for detecting and tracking oil spills, Commission, is yielding data that will improve future an abandoned crab pot. monitoring harmful algal blooms, identifying toxins,

4 and other, perhaps yet unrecognized, With biosensors, Unger says “We’re The abundance of young-of-the-year Research by Diaz and Swedish applications—all in real time. looking at a new era, where there’s crabs did not change measurably from collaborator Rutger Rosenberg shows Kaattari says the team is “developing a possibility of achieving fast, cheap the previous year, and remains below that the number of dead zones—areas antibody-based sensors with the idea environmental data.” the 18-year survey average. These of seafloor with too little oxygen for of placing them on different platforms crabs will become vulnerable to the most marine life—has increased by a to sense the introduction and dispersal fisheries late in the 2009 season and third between 1995 and 2007. of aquatic contaminants.” Platforms represent the 2010 spawning potential. The pair says that dead zones are include marine buoys, robotic Professor Rom Lipcius, who directs now “the key stressor on marine submarines, and in the near future, the VIMS component of the survey, ecosystems” and “rank with over- a device small enough to clip on a says “The increase in crab abundance fishing, habitat loss, and harmful researcher’s belt. was clearly due to the recent algal blooms as global environmental Making these measurements using management actions. Now, we have problems.” traditional technology is both time- Dredged blue crab to ensure that these females survive Users can access Diaz’s dead zone consuming and expensive, says to spawn this summer, and that their data within Google Earth by opening Survey supports blue crab offspring produce a healthy spawning Unger: “Today, for every hour I spend management actions the “Layers” pane and navigating to collecting samples, I have to spend stock in coming years.” Ocean/State of the Ocean/Dead Zones. The 2008-2009 winter blue another 100 hours in the lab. There Diaz contributes to Google Each dead-zone location in Google are multiple steps; it can literally take crab dredge survey showed that Earth significantly more crabs overwintered Earth includes data on the nature of weeks to get one data point—at up to The newest version of Google Earth the dead zone (periodic, seasonal, or $1,000 per sample.” in Chesapeake Bay than during the previous year, indicating that contains data on marine “dead zones” persistent), its size, the date it was first coordinated management actions in contributed by VIMS Professor Robert observed, its impact on fisheries, its 2008 by Maryland, Virginia, and the Diaz. impact on deep-water ecosystems, and Potomac River Fisheries Commission a reference. were effective at increasing the abundance of spawning-age females. The Bay-wide winter dredge survey is an annual cooperative effort between VIMS and the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. The VIMS biosensor team. Clockwise The observed increase, from 280 from L: graduate students Candace Spier and Jianmin Ye, marine scientist million crabs in 2007-2008 to just Mary Ann Vogelbein, Dr. Erin over 400 million in 2008-2009, Bromage, Dr. Mike Unger, marine was due primarily to a doubling in scientist George Vadas, and Dr. Steve the number of adult female crabs. Kaattari. Dead zones in 2009 The abundance of adult male crabs From Diaz and Rosenberg 2008, Rabalals et al. 2009 increased by approximately 50%.

5 Researchers unite fish families Study shows bacterial disease can kill striped bass Research by an international team of scientists including Assistant Professor A study led by VIMS researchers is the first to demonstrate that Tracey Sutton of VIMS has resolved a long-standing biological puzzle by striped bass in Chesapeake Bay are succumbing to mycobacteriosis. showing that a group of deep-sea fishes previously classified into three separate This chronic bacterial disease, first detected in Bay stripers in 1997, families are actually the larvae, males, and females of a single family—the now infects more than half of all striped bass in Bay waters. whalefishes. The study was conducted by David Gauthier, Rob Latour, Chris To put the team’s discovery Bonzek, Jim Gartland, and Wolfgang Vogelbein, as well as Erin into perspective, consider Burge of Coastal Carolina University and Dennis Heisey of the U.S. that cats, dogs, and walruses Geological Survey. also represent three Observation of mortality among wild fish is typically limited to biological families. It’s as if acute fish-kill events of schooling species such as menhaden, when the researchers discovered large numbers of that dogs are really male dead fish float to walruses, and that kittens the surface or wash aren’t cats but a walrus’s ashore. juvenile form. Detection of Their findings represent mortality from “the most extreme example chronic infections of metamorphoses and is more difficult, sexual dimorphism ever as fish are likely to documented in vertebrates.” die in small numbers through time across a wide area. “Due to the Sutton attributes the long- chronic nature of mycobacteriosis in striped bass, the mortality is standing confusion over cryptic,” says Gauthier. “That makes it difficult to measure.” the classification of these Knowing whether mycobacteriosis kills Bay stripers is of concern fishes to their rarity and to fisheries managers and anglers all along the Eastern seaboard. to the difficulties of deep- Striped bass are one of the region’s most economically and sea sampling. Because the ecologically important finfish, and Chesapeake Bay is the main Photo Credit: Larva, Don Hughes; Male image, Dave adult forms of these fishes Johnson; Female, Bruce Robison/MBARI. breeding and nursery ground for this species on the Atlantic coast. typically live between 3,000 and 12,000 feet below the surface, they are rarely sampled. The few that are During the study, the researchers fed data from a three-year Bay netted are typically in poor condition by the time they are brought aboard a survey of mycobacteriosis into a state-of-the-art demographic research vessel. model developed by Heisey. “That’s what sets our study apart,” says Vogelbein. “We were able to provide our model with field data Specimens of larvae are more common, as these migrate into shallower waters showing the prevalence of infection in different age classes through to feed, but they differ so markedly from their adult forms that scientists had time.” never previously recognized their family kinship.

6 Service to Virginia and the Nation

Carol Brill serves as President of 198 meetings, and published 578 Tom Murray was appointed to Michael Oesterling serves as the Mid-Atlantic Marine Education advisory notes. serve on the U.S. Department of the Virginia representative on the Association, and as Virginia regional Bob Diaz served on the Steering Agriculture’s Tidewater Resource Technical Committee for Research for co-coordinator for the National Ocean Committee for the Integrated Coastal Conservation & Development the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Science Bowl. Research Initiative, part of UNESCO’s Council. Southern Regional Aquaculture Deborah Bronk is co-chairing the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Tom Murray and Michael Center. Energy and Environment Committee Commission. Oesterling continue to serve on Tracey Sutton served on a panel for the Council of Scientific Society Carl Friedrichs serves on the Virginia Aquaculture Advisory to evaluate the ecology of northwest Presidents. The committee provides the steering committees of the Board’s Technical Committee. The Atlantic seamounts and submitted advice on current issues facing the Chesapeake Bay Observing System pair also released their fourth annual activity and catch reports to the nation with respect to energy and the and the Chesapeake Community survey of clam and oyster aquaculture National Marine Fisheries Service. environment. She is also a member Modeling Program. The programs in Virginia, which documents The catch report is used to set of the U.S. National Committee for aim to advance environmental continuing growth in both industries. management criteria and quotas for the Intergovernmental Oceanographic observations and models in support of large coastal sharks. Commission of UNESCO, which management efforts in the region. supports U.S. participation at the Marjy Friedrichs served on the United Nations with respect to ocean issues. W&M review panel for high- performance computing and a Elizabeth Canuel provided monitoring review workshop for seminars to various groups interested the Chesapeake Bay Program’s in the potential use of algae as a Scientific and Technical Advisory source of biofuels, including the Committee. Virginia Coastal Energy Research Consortium, Hampton Roads Carl Hershner served on the Research Partnership, and the Virginia Chesapeake Bay Program Scientific Economic Developers Association. and Technical Advisory Committee. During 2008, staff with the Steve Kuehl served as steering Center for Coastal Resources committee member of the NSF- Management at VIMS (CCRM) MARGINS initiative and hosted responded to 2,063 information an international workshop for the requests, provided 73 site visits and MARGINS Source-to-Sink Program. The large crane rising above Gloucester Point was used to construct a new concrete pier (in field consultations, hosted or attended background) for VIMS, and is now being used to remove the Oyster and Ferry piers from VIMS’ York River shoreline (Ferry Pier in foreground). The old piers had suffered severe damage during Hurricane Isabel and Tropical Storm Ernesto. 7 Awards and Recognition

John Hoenig was honored with the Faculty Professor Deborah Bronk is President-Elect of the American University of Rhode Island’s Alumnus Debbie Bronk was chosen to serve Society of Limnology and Distinguished Achievement Award. a 2-year term on the working group Oceanography; a member of Professor emeritus Maurice charged with deciding the nation’s the national panel charged with deciding the U.S. strategy for Lynch was appointed to the Hampton strategy for carbon-cycle research. carbon-cycle research in the Roads Sanitation District Commission Research to understand the in and outs coming decade, and was on the by Governor Timothy M. Kaine. of the global carbon cycle is a key steering committee for the National part of the nation’s ability to predict, Science Foundation’s Ocean Postdoctoral associate Yuehan Carbon and Biogeochemistry Lu received a Mellon Postdoctoral monitor, and respond to climate change initiative. and global warming. Fellowship.

Emmett Duffy, Elizabeth Canuel, Professor Eugene Roger Mann and Gene Burreson and Kim Reece were among the first Burreson (L) accepts the received the Honored Life Member class of W&M faculty to receive the Honored Life Membership Award from the National Shellfisheries Award from the National Association, the association’s highest new Plumeri awards for excellence in Shellfisheries Association research from the College, endowed by during their 101st Annual honor. the generosity of alum Joseph Plumeri. Meeting in Savannah, GA. Mark Patterson received the 2008 Presenting the award is Bill DuPaul received the William long-time colleague Susan Lockheed Martin Award for Ocean Q. Wick Award for Visionary Career Ford of Rutgers University. Science and Engineering from the Leadership by the assembly of Sea Marine Technology Society. The award Grant Extension Program Leaders. is given annually for “the highest degree of technical accomplishment John Graves was named to the in the field of marine science, Department of Commerce’s Marine engineering, or technology.” Patterson Fisheries Advisory Committee, was recognized for his development the nation’s top advisory body for of autonomous underwater vehicles management of fisheries in U.S. waters. (AUV). Graves was selected for his expert knowledge of fisheries genetics, as well Mark Patterson and Roger Mann as his extensive experience in fisheries were finalists in the 2008 Wilcox and management and policy-making. VIMS professor Mark Patterson Savage Innovation Award, Hampton accepts the Lockheed Martin Roads Technology Council, for their Award for Ocean Science and work on a patent for developing a Engineering. system and methods for identifying and quantifying sonar targets in water. 8 Staff VIMS Service Awards Vicki Clark received the 2008 Freeman Volunteer of the Year President’s Award from the Virginia Jim Price chapter of the American Culinary Facilities/Safety/Trades Professor Deborah Steinberg (L) Federation for seafood education with W&M junior Miram Gleiber Becky Kearns near the U.S. Palmer Research programs and support. Station. Support from Adrian G. Carolyn Ridgway Cook was re- Research/Advisory Service “Casey” Duplantier Jr. and 1st Advantage Federal Credit Union of elected to the Executive Board of the Lee Larkin Newport News supported Gleiber’s American Council on Education’s Technical Support research in the Palmer Antarctica Office of Women in Higher Education. Long-Term Ecological Research Karen Hudson project. Ilsa Kaattari served on the volunteer Interim Executive Committee for Administrative Support W&M Professional Faculty for two Diane Perry years, and was elected in 2008 to a Dean’s Prize for the Advancement of 2-year term on the first, 21-member Women in Marine Science Professionals and Professional Faculty Assembly. Deborah Bronk Jennifer Latour was elected to the Outstanding Teaching Award William and Mary President Taylor W&M Professionals and Professional Robert Diaz Reveley bestows a 2008 Faculty Assembly. President’s Award for Service to the Community Lisa Lawrence, Chris Petrone on VIMS Professor and Vicki Clark were recognized for Dennis Taylor (R). providing the Bridge ocean-resource website. The U.S. Program Office of Deborah Steinberg and Jim Bauer were recognized the Census of Marine Life honored the by Thomson Reuters’ Essential Science IndicatorsSM for scholarly contributions Bridge as the “Education Link of the to a “research front” in the “Biological Effects of Ocean Chemistry.” A research Quarter.” front is defined as a cluster of highly cited scientific papers in areas of emerging Phil Sadler was elected Chair of interest. the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Dennis Taylor was awarded one of the 2008 President’s Awards for Service Commission’s Striped Bass Tagging to the Community for his work with students in the local community on such Subcommittee. projects as the biodiesel fuel plant and the Public Commons Project. Taylor also helps lead the College’s Committee on Sustainability.

99 School of Marine Science Graduate students in the School of Marine Science at VIMS have an unparalleled opportunity to conduct research that matters, with many pursuing research and policy avenues that bring them in close contact with industry and management agencies at the state, regional, and international levels. Here are some highlights of student accomplishments in 2008-2009. A full list of theses and dissertations for 2008-2009 is available at www.vims.edu/library. External Student Awards 2009 Spring meeting of the Atlantic Matt Smith was awarded a Reves Sea Grant population dynamics Estuarine Research Society in Ocean Center International Travel Grant fellowships. Samantha Bickel received a City, MD. to present his research results at the VIMS Student Awards Student Travel Award from the annual meeting of the American American Society of Limnology and Amber Hardison received a Reves Center International Travel Grant Fisheries Society in Toronto. These awards are supported by Oceanography (ASLO) and a Reves endowments in the VIMS Foundation. Center International Travel Grant to to present her research at the Ocean Kersey Sturdivant received the Best present her research at the 2009 ASLO Sciences Meeting in Nice, France. Student Poster award at the ASLO Kelley Watson Fellowship Ocean Sciences meeting in Nice, Kristina Hill received a Thurlow Ocean Sciences Meeting in Nice, Kristina Hill France. Nelson Award, Honorable Mention, France. He also received a doctoral Zeigler Student Achievement Award fellowship from the NOAA Graduate Kate Brodie for her outstanding oral presentation at Charles “Chip” Cotton received the Best Science Program. Student Paper award for her poster at the National Shellfisheries Association William J. Hargis Jr. Fellowship the 2008 Fall Meeting of the American annual meeting. Andrew Wozniak took part in Matthew Whalen the fourth annual Graduate Student Geophysical Union (AGU). J. Paul Rinehimer received the Matthew Fontaine Maury Student Research Forum, hosted by the Rachael Blake 2nd place Student Modeler Award in Fellowship commenced a Virginia Council of Graduate Schools. competitive Fellowship from the the “Community Surface Dynamics Heidi Geisz National Estuarine Research Reserve Modeling System” for his Master’s Mark Henderson and Patrick System. research. Lynch were awarded NOAA/ Andre Buchheister and Justine Noelle Relles was awarded a Reves Woodward received Reves Center Center International Travel Grant, and International Travel grants to present a Minority Student Travel Grant from their research at the American the American Society of Limnology Fisheries Society meeting in Ottawa, and Oceanography to present her Canada. research at the ASLO Ocean Sciences Meeting in Nice, France. Karen Capossela received the Best Student Presentation award at the Sarah Schillawski was awarded a 3-year fellowship from the National 2009 Tidewater Chapter Meeting of 2008-2009 Estuarine Research Reserve System the American Fisheries Society. incoming and a Garden Club of America Coastal students Juliette Giordano received the Best Wetlands Scholarship for summer Student Oral Presentation Award at the fieldwork. 10 Best Student Papers pollutants at The team’s next step is to incorporate extremely low the antibodies into electronic Master’s concentrations in “biosensors” that can be deployed Jesse Jarvis and K. A. Moore. water. to monitor pollutants in real-world 2008. Influence of environmental Her work holds settings. factors on Vallisneria americana seed promise for near Dusky sharks vulnerable to NOAA germination. Aquatic Botany 88(4): real-time monitoring fishing Dusky shark Candace Spier 283-294. of oil pollution in any Research by Ph.D. student Jason that mortality was greatest among body of water worldwide. Ph.D. Romine and colleagues shows that small sharks during spring, and Heidi Geisz, R. M. Dickhut, Spier and colleagues made the dusky sharks are highly vulnerable that prolonged time in a net also M. A. Cochran, W. R. Fraser, and breakthrough by exposing mice to to fishing pressure, and that stringent contributed to mortality. molecules that closely resemble regulatory measures will be required H. W. Ducklow. 2008. Melting Their life-history studies suggest “polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.” to recover collapsed populations of glaciers: a probable source of DDT a 3-year reproductive cycle for the PAHs are widespread organic this coastal shark. to the Antarctic marine ecosystem. species, with a 2-year gestation period pollutants that form during the Environmental Science & Technology Dusky sharks, which can grow to and a 1-year resting period. The burning and processing of fossil fuels. 42(11): 3958-3962. 14 feet and 800 pounds, are highly shark’s litters contain only 3-12 pups. Exposure of mice to these PAH look- valued by commercial fisheries for Student Research Highlights “Dead Zones” affecting bottom alikes leads their immune system to their meat, skin, and liver oil. Antibody helps detect pollutants dwellers develop antibodies that can recognize The researchers studied the factors A study of the York and Ph.D. student Candace Spier has real PAHs, at concentrations below that influence mortality of this shark Rappahannock rivers by Ph.D. student tapped the power of the mammalian one part per billion. Spier says the when caught as bycatch in fisheries Chris Long shows that low-oxygen immune system to detect organic process works “like a human vaccine.” targeting other species. They found “dead zones” have begun to affect

Degree Sought Domicile/Nationality 60 125 54 55 51 57 50 36 45 Graduate 40 School 25 35 12 30 Statistics 25

20 5 Ph.D. Masters Out-of-State Virginia International Ph.D Master's Out-of-State Virginia International Todd Clardy Cassie Bradley Christina Pondell Kristina Hill Yi-Cheng Teng

11 the bottom-dwelling communities search-and-rescue teams, engineers, The meeting, the 32nd-annual delegates agreed that continued that nurture higher levels of the and other stakeholders with a means gathering of signatories to the long-term monitoring is imperative Chesapeake Bay food web. to more accurately estimate the height, international treaty governing the continent-wide, and began discussions Long and advisor Rochelle Seitz periodicity, and direction of waves in southern continent, marked the 50th on establishing a marine protected recorded the health of the rivers’ the coastal zone. anniversary of the Treaty’s signing area in the Ross Sea dedicated to bottom-dwelling communities before Assessing the “wave climate” of and the conclusion of the International climate-change research. and after low-oxygen events during a particular shoreline or harbor is Polar Year. The Antarctic Treaty is Green Team wins sustainability the summer of increasingly important in search-and- a unique international agreement to grant 2003 and 2004. rescue missions and modeling studies, reserve Antarctica for the pursuit of Staff and students at VIMS earned and is also essential for quantifying peace and science. They found a two competitive grants from the sediment transport, designing in- Geisz served as decrease in the W&M Committee on Sustainability water and shoreline structures, and a “rapporteur,” “biomass” of to improve energy efficiency on the understanding how sediments interact generating the clams, worms, Gloucester Point campus. and other with marine plants and animals. official record One project will provide $18,000 invertebrates For the study, Vandever and of proceedings to upgrade fluorescent lighting in Bottom-dwelling tube on and in bay- colleagues compared wave-height during the the Hargis Library. Replacement worms floor sediments estimates in 10 coastal and estuarine 11-day event. Heidi Geisz of existing fixtures with enhanced after the low-oxygen bouts, and a environments around the U.S. and The meeting was energy-efficient fixtures will reduce shift toward opportunistic, “weedy” Canada using data from acoustic attended by nearly 400 diplomats, energy consumption and help reduce species. Doppler wave gauges. Their analysis Antarctic program managers and logistics experts, and polar scientists the Institute’s carbon footprint. A similar study conducted 20 years marks the most comprehensive from 47 countries. The other project, proposed by VIMS earlier in the York River found synthesis of such measurements ever graduate student Heidi Geisz on no effect on the bottom-dwelling accomplished in coastal waters. Geisz’s research focuses on the behalf of the VIMS “Green Team,” community. The authors conclude that Their results provide equations that accumulation of persistent organic will use $3,000 to purchase and install the observed increase in low-oxygen allow coastal interests to use computer pollutants in Antarctic seabirds. Her motion sensors and motion-sensor- events during the last two decades models to predict maximum wave studies are part of the NSF-funded controlled lights to significantly has increased their deleterious effects heights within 10% of actual values, Long-Term Ecological Research reduce energy use in low-traffic areas. on the York River’s bottom-dwelling even when long-term observations of (LTER) program at the U.S. Palmer community. the surface wave field are unavailable. Station on the Antarctic Peninsula, The sustainability projects, funded where average annual winter through the student “Green Fee,” are Doppler analysis helps forecast Geisz in Antarctic Treaty temperatures have increased by 10° F part of the ongoing effort to advance wave meeting during the last 50 years, five times the the College’s Sustainability Policy climates Ph.D. student Heidi Geisz was global average warming. announced by William & Mary Research among a handful of graduate students Geisz says “It was exciting to see President Taylor Reveley in the Spring by M.S. nationwide selected to participate how much proactive attention climate of 2008. student in the Antarctic Treaty Consultative change research and information Justin Meeting in Baltimore in April. received at the meeting.” Treaty Vandever is providing mariners, 12 Grants and Contracts VIMS researchers were awarded $17 million by federal, state and private entities during fiscal year 2008-2009. In addition to supporting critical research and oversight activities within the Commonwealth, these grants and contracts provided opportunities to enhance educational programs and conduct cutting-edge research nationally and internationally. A few highlights include: EPA = Environmental Protection Agency; NOAA = National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NSF = National Science Foundation.

Mike Newman Mercury trophic Robert Diaz Workshop on Ken Moore Monitoring estuarine Rob Latour, Chris Bonzek Data transfer model: South River environmental research needs in condition at Colonial National collection and analysis in support floodplain, $163,896, E.I. DuPont support of potential Virginia offshore Historical Park, George Washington of single and multispecies stock Nemours, Inc. oil and gas activities, $150,525, Birthplace National Monument, and assessments in Chesapeake Bay: Kirk Havens, Donna Bilkovic, US Dept. of the Interior Minerals Assateague Island National Seashore, the Chesapeake Bay Multispecies Carl Hershner On-going Management Service NE Coastal and Barrier Network, Monitoring and Assessment Program development of nontidal wetland Jim Perry Assessment of woody 2008 and 2009, $104,134, US (ChesMMAP), $500,815, US inventory and monitoring strategy in vegetation for replacement of Department of the Interior National Department of the Interior Fish and Virginia, $385,699, EPA ecological functions in created Park Service Wildlife Service Kirk Havens, Donna Bilkovic forested wetlands of the piedmont Derelict blue crab trap and marine province of Virginia, $844,041, debris location and removal in shallow Wetland Studies and Solutions, Inc. water, $1,243,416, NOAA Courtney Harris Collaborative Rochelle Seitz Predicting impacts research: formation, reworking and of stressors at the land-water interface, accumulation of sedimentary deposits, $538,126, NOAA Waipaoa River Shelf, New Zealand, $164,023, NSF Walker Smith, Kam Tang Experimental and environmental Robert Orth, Scott Marion, Ken investigations of giant colonies of Moore, Mark Luckenbach Marine Phaeocystis globosa in Chinese ecosystem restoration (native oysters, waters, $461,284, NSF seagrass, and bay scallops) in the Coastal Bays of Virginia, $502,148, Kam Tang, Iris Anderson New NOAA GK-12: Partnership between educators and researchers for enhancing Mike Vecchione, Tracey Sutton classroom teaching (PERFECT), Patterns and processes of the $2,736,518, NSF ecosystems of the northern Mid- Stephen Kaattari The mechanics Atlantic (MAR-ECO), $600,000, and optimization of immunological Sloan Foundation memory in salmonid fishes, $375,000, US Department of Agriculture 13 Outreach

robots and their potential for Ghost pots in the Bay (October at W&M, VIMS researchers explored exploring Chesapeake Bay and 30, 2008) Dr. Kirk Havens of the causes and consequences of global the global ocean. VIMS’ Center for Coastal Resources change in Chesapeake Bay. Blue Crab Blues (March 26, Management described how continued Species of Special Concern 2009) VIMS researcher Jacques fishing by “ghost” crab pots impacts During this five-week course, hosted van Montfrans described the life Chesapeake Bay. by Christopher Newport University’s of blue crabs in the Bay, as well Can algae fuel our cars? Lifelong Learning Society, VIMS as current management issues (September 25, 2008) VIMS Professor researchers explored the natural his- surrounding the blue crab fishery Liz Canuel described her collaborative tory and conservation status of some in Virginia and Maryland. efforts to turn the kinds of algae that of Chesapeake Bay’s ecologically, are choking Chesapeake Bay into a commercially, and recreationally im- Not your grandfather’s Marine Science Day renewable fuel that might one day portant species, including blue crabs, Chesapeake (February 26, 2009) power our cars. menhaden, oysters, striped bass, and Marine Science Day on May 30th VIMS assistant professor Eric Hilton seagrass. brought a record crowd of more than explored how human activities and Corn ethanol and Chesapeake 2,000 visitors to the VIMS campus for climate change promote the invasion Bay: Unforeseen consequences Public Tours (August 28, 2008) Virginia Tech hands-on exhibits showcasing research of non-native species in Chesapeake Guided tours gave 366 adults and Professor Jim Pease explored the in Chesapeake Bay and around the Bay. older children a behind-the-scenes potential economic and environmental world. The Children’s Pavilion, York look at VIMS, including a visit to State of the Oyster 2009 (January consequences of large-scale ethanol River seining, laboratory tours, and the Visitor’s Center and Aquarium, a 29, 2009) VIMS professor Mark production for the Chesapeake Bay the Parade of Marine Life engaged research laboratory, and the Teaching participants young and old. Luckenbach described the current watershed. status of oyster restoration efforts in Marsh. After Hours Lectures Chesapeake Bay. Speaker’s Bureau Closed to Swimming? Human VIMS faculty and staff presented 19 Health and the Chesapeake invited talks to nearly 400 citizens and (June 25, 2009) VIMS professor students at community organizations, Howard Kator described harmful schools, clubs, businesses, and other marine bacteria and the risks they pose venues throughout Hampton Roads to Bay enthusiasts. and the Northern Neck. Underwater Robots: A Mini-Schools Revolution in Oceanography Global Warming in The Bay (April 30, 2009) VIMS associate Ghost pot During this three-week course, hosted Amanda Chesler (hands raised) describes professor Mark Patterson offered a oyster-rearing techniques in the VIMS oyster by the Christopher Wren Association multimedia exploration of submarine hatchery to a visiting group. 14 Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve Discovery Labs

Why animals don’t wear clothes (June 16, 2009) Dan Summers from the Virginia Living Museum explored the adaptations that Chesapeake Bay animals use to protect themselves and keep warm. Climate change and the Bay (April 21, 2009) David Jasinski, co-founder of Be the Bay, discussed how pollution, development, and climate change affect Chesapeake Bay. Mollusks (March 17, 2009) Malacologist Hannah McLean used her personal shell collection to help describe the many different kinds of mollusks. Shorebirds (February 17, 2009) Dr. Adam Duerr of the W&M Center for Conservation Biology discussed the impor- tance of shore birds to Chesapeake Bay. Estuaries—where rivers meet the sea (January 20, 2009) CBNERR Education Coordinator Sarah McGuire used kids’ activities and hands-on experiments to explore estuaries. The Mad Lab returns! (October 21, 2008) Audience members took a spooky look at deep-sea animals that live and glow in the dark.

15 Publications VIMS researchers published hundreds of journal articles, technical reports, and other scientific communications in 2008 and 2009. Here’s a statistical snapshot of the 230 journal articles published by VIMS faculty, staff, and students between January 2008 and September 2009. A full list of VIMS-authored journal articles is available at vims.edu/library. Statistics were generated using software tools provided by Thompson ScientificSM.

Top 10 Journals # Articles

1. Journal of Shellfish Research 39 2. Journal of Coastal Research 10 3. Estuaries and Coasts 9 4. Marine Ecology-Progress Series 8 5. Deep-Sea Research-Topical Studies in Oceanography 7 6. Marine Biology 7 7. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 7 8. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 6 9. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 6 10. Environmental Science & Technology 5

Top 10 Keywords

1. species 6. population 2. change 7. time 3. model 8. bay 4. rate 9. range 5. fish 10. river

VIMS scientists collaborate and publish with colleagues from around the world. Lower pie chart shows top 10 countries of co-authors for papers with international collaborators during 2008- 2009. Nearly half of all papers with VIMS authors include international collaborators. Data according to the Web of Science.© 16 Giving Highlights VIMS Council Private giving and the VIMS Foundation advance education and research member Matthew (Tim) Blackwood All state institutions of higher education, including VIMS and the College of William and on his Tartan 37, Mary, face major challenges as state funding decreases as a proportion of the total budget. Even “Paradox.” though VIMS remains highly successful in competing for federally sponsored research sup- port, we still require gifts and endowments to fill critical needs such as student fellowships and acquisition of up-to-date scientific equipment. Today less than 1% of the VIMS budget comes from private support, as compared to several comparable research institutions that have established endowments of several hundred million Blackwood’s love of Chesapeake Bay provides a legacy for VIMS dollars. We created the VIMS Foundation to help assure a successful future, and are glad to report that its support of the Institute continues to increase. Longtime VIMS Council member Matthew T. (Tim) Blackwood left a generous unrestricted bequest of $108,000 VIMS receives gifts directly as well as through its Foundation. Total private giving for VIMS to the VIMS Foundation. The Blackwood Unrestricted and the VIMS Foundation in FY2009 amounted to 440 gifts totaling $1,409,539. Of this, Endowment Fund will provide the Foundation’s Board of $606,529 came to the VIMS Foundation. In addition, the VIMS Art Auction netted more than Directors and the Dean and Director of VIMS with flexibility $30,000 to support student research. New endowments have made it possible for the VIMS to support a variety of institutional needs that are critical to a Foundation to support as many as 12 students in the current academic year. scientific enterprise. The total assets of the VIMS Foundation were $6,678,562 as of June 30, 2009, down from Tim was born in New York City in 1928 and lived most of $7,758,212 on June 30, 2008, due to market conditions. Most importantly, endowments and his youth in Centreville, Maryland. A graduate of Culver expendable gifts have allowed the Foundation to increase its assistance to VIMS from $277,000 Military Academy and Cornell University, he served 4 years in 2008 to $634,000 in 2009. The VIMS Foundation’s endowed funds are invested with the Wil- of active duty and 12 years in the USMC Reserves. Tim liam and Mary Investment Trust or WAMIT. See WAMIT investment report on page 25. worked at Johnson & Higgins for 31 years, in Philadelphia and Richmond. He was a dedicated volunteer and board We deeply appreciate the commitments of so many friends, foundations, and corporations in FY member for a number of causes. After he moved to 2009 and recognize them in the listings that follow. We can also report that a growing number Deltaville in 1994, VIMS was fortunate enough to have him of people are including the VIMS Foundation in their estate plans, a good sign for the future of join the VIMS Council. the VIMS Foundation and the role it can play in supporting VIMS’ work to restore and man- An avid sailor, Tim always had a twinkle in his eye and age Chesapeake Bay and our marine resources. An investment in our students and faculty is an offered quiet but astute guidance as a member of the VIMS investment in the quality of our environment as these are the people who will identify and help Council. He was a generous supporter of the building of the solve our environmental challenges. Kauffman Aquaculture Center and of student research at To mark the 10th anniversary of the VIMS Foundation in 2010-2011, we hope to significantly the VIMS Eastern Shore Laboratory. Tim’s love of the Bay increase the VIMS Foundation endowments for student support. For information on how you will endure through his legacy of support of future students can help, please call the VIMS Development and VIMS Foundation Office at 804-684-7107 or and education and research at VIMS from the Blackwood 7099. Endowment. 17 Nunnally pledge supports Latour Gift supports aquaculture interns

A $250,000 pledge from the Moses D. Nunnally A $90,000 gift from an anonymous private donor through the non-profit Charitable Trust is supporting Dr. Rob Latour as the Philanthropic Collaborative has allowed VIMS to begin training the Moses D. Nunnally Term Professor at VIMS. skilled workers needed to advance Chesapeake Bay’s rapidly growing oyster-farming industry. Latour, a leader in the field of ecosystem-based management, heads up two VIMS programs with this Professor Stan Allen, Director of the Aquaculture Genetics and Breeding theme: the Chesapeake Bay Multispecies Monitoring Technology Center at VIMS, used the gift to initiate a long-held vision— and Assessment Program (ChesMMAP) and the Fisheries Ecosystem the Oyster Aquaculture Training program, or OAT. Modeling and Assessment Project (FEMAP). The program will provide oyster farmers with workers who are skilled in Both programs move beyond traditional single-species management all aspects of the trade, from hatchery production to grow-out. Allen says approaches to analyze the interactions between and among species and the goal “is to provide their environment. Multispecies research includes studies of predator-prey Virginia’s expanding interactions; fish age, sex, and maturity; seasonal variations in species aquaculture industry distributions; and water-quality effects. with trained technicians using a pool of local, State and federal agencies use program results to craft sustainable interested people.” management plans for commercial and recreational fishes in Chesapeake Bay and along the Atlantic seaboard. First-year trainees were Elisabeth Bloom of Hayes, Ben Clark of Fetch LLC gift helps advance robotic subs West Point, Tommy OAT trainees in the VIMS Oyster Hatchery. From L: Camp of Williamsburg, Elisabeth Bloom of Hayes, Tommy Camp of Williams- burg, Lisa Domalewski of Virginia Beach, and Ben Clark Fetch LLC’s generous donation of and Lisa Domalewski of of West Point. several autonomous underwater Virginia Beach. The group vehicles (AUVs), numerous pieces of includes two college biology majors, a “life-long naturalist,” and a recent related equipment, and a U.S. patent high-school graduate. for operational software will further enhance VIMS’ groundbreaking A 2008 survey by the Sea Grant Marine Advisory Program at VIMS advances in the field of marine robotics. shows a steady growth of oyster aquaculture in Virginia as watermen shift from the traditional planting of “shell on bottom” to farming using The gift, to the Autonomous Systems cages, racks, and floats. The number of farmed oysters nearly tripled Laboratory (ASL) at VIMS, will allow Dr. Mark Patterson and students to between 2005 and 2006, and growers predicted a 33% increase during continue developing and deploying the next generation of AUVs. To date, the most recent growing season. the ASL team has conducted AUV research in Chesapeake Bay, the Florida Keys, Antarctica, and Iceland. The robotic subs provide unprecedented The trainees agree that the breadth of the program is one of its key opportunities to go where ships and divers can not and to observe changes in strengths. Clark, who comes from a family of commercial anglers, says the ocean as they occur. “it’s eye-opening to see what goes on from start to finish.” 18 DuPlantier gift contributes to student research in Antarctica Olsson, NewMarket, and Norfolk Southern support purchase of mass spectrometers A gift from Adrian G. DuPlantier, Jr. and First Advantage Federal Credit The Elis Olsson Memorial Foundation has pledged $50,000 towards the Union supported student research at the acquisition of additional mass spectrometry equipment at VIMS. The Palmer Long-term Ecological Research gift will contribute to the purchase of a new gas chromatograph mass site in Antarctica. The gift allowed spectrometer. W&M junior Miram Gleiber and VIMS The Norfolk Southern Foundation has also made an additional pledge to Master’s student Glaucia Fragoso to help with this new instrument. The instrument will be added to the mass conduct research in the waters off the L to R - Miram Gleiber, Professor spectrometry facility at VIMS, which was initiated through the purchase of Antarctic peninsula with Professor Steinberg, and Glaucia Fragoso an elemental analysis isotope ratio mass spectrometer (EA-IRMS) that the Deborah Steinberg. Foundation funded over the last few years with a $150,000 pledge. The high-tech instruments, which allow for measurement of stable isotopes in environmental samples, will serve the programs of professors Rebecca Dickhut and Elizabeth Canuel. Master’s student Christina Pondell will use the EA-IRMS to help determine how land-use changes and dams affect the transport of organic carbon to the coastal ocean, research that will ultimately help provide a better understanding of the global carbon cycle. Ph.D. student Heidi Geisz will use the device to analyze carbon and nitrogen isotopes in Antarctic seabirds. The ratio of these elements in seabird eggs and tissues throws light on the birds’ dietary preferences and migratory patterns, and helps assess Geisz in the necropsy the “biomagnification” of any contaminants in their lab tissues. Just after the end of the fiscal year, NewMarket Corporation joined the group of mass spectrometry funders by making a gift of $50,000, which, combined with other resources, allowed the final purchase of a $400,000 machine—an inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer. This machine will be critical for new professor Dr. Aaron Beck to establish a cutting- edge, trace-metal research program at VIMS.

VIMS research vessel Bay Eagle and the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Fetch. The Acquisition of scientific instrumentation is one of VIMS’ most critical robotic sub provides unprecedented opportunities to go where ships and divers can not, and ongoing needs. to observe changes in ocean as they occur.

19 Eastern Shore Lab hosts interns Thanks to gifts from friends of VIMS on the Eastern Shore, the VIMS Eastern Shore Lab was able to hire five local undergraduates for summer internships. The competition for the positions was stiff. Students participated fully in research at the lab including studies of oysters, scallops, and clams in the ESL’s Shellfish Research Hatchery. Others studied sea ducks, clam aquaculture, oyster restoration, and the ecology of invasive species. While attending various colleges, the participating students all hail from Eastern Shore communities: Will Hart of the College of William and Mary hails from Bloxom; Kelly Hinman of the University of Maryland, Eastern Shore hails from Willis Wharf; Zack Mallette of Old Dominion University hails from Locustville; Paige Smith of Randolph-Macon College hails from Harborton; and Trisha Wagner from the University of West Florida hails from Cheriton. Hart, who studied the foraging ecology of surf scoters and long-tailed ducks, said the internship piqued his interest in marine science. “I learned through hands-on experience how important marine research is to issues in Chesapeake Bay,” says Hart. “I’m grateful that I was lucky enough to receive the opportunity to work at the Eastern Shore Lab, it was an experience that I’ll never forget. The skills that I acquired this summer are irreplaceable, and ones that every scientist needs.” ESL Director Mark Luckenbach says the interns were “an excellent group that each day brought enthusiasm, a willingness to work hard, and an interest in learning.” He adds “On behalf of the students, we thank the Young, Johnsen, Bosworth, Amory, Lalor, and Kellam families and Cynthia Bailey for the generous gifts that made it possible for us to hire these promising young students.”

(Bottom row, L to R): Will Hart; Zack Mallette. (Top row, L to R) Trisha Wagner; Paige Smith; and Kelly Hinman.

20 Summer camps engage kids “[Our daughter] had a great time and wants to come back next year—always a great sign!”—Cyndi Masterstaff In the words of one youngster: “This was the best camp in the history of camps.” He was referring to Chesapeake Bay Explorers, one of “The best part was the trip to Goodwin Island. The canoe trip was five week-long summer camps made possible by a gift from a private something I will never forget. I think this was a good program and donor to VIMS. should continue for other students.”—Yasmene Kimble

The gift will also fund summer camps at VIMS during the next four summers. The camps, led by Education Coordinator Sarah McGuire of the Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve at VIMS, provided fun, hands-on experiences in the field and lab to 89 elementary and middle school students from in and around Gloucester County.

Campers got wet and muddy at sites around the Bay, from the VIMS Teaching Marsh to the Goodwin Islands and the barrier islands of the Eastern Shore.

Wetland Waders—these rising 1st and 2nd graders dip-netted, seined, and produced a play about salt marshes. Bay Savers, rising 3rd and 4th graders, learned about Chesapeake Bay habitats and stewardship. They made picture frames from recycled materials, painted rain barrels, and planned waste-free lunches. Bay Techies, rising 5th and 6th graders, applied technology to study the Bay. They used GPS units to find an ecocache, built observing buoys and robotic subs, and produced a video about their adventures. Chesapeake Bay Investigators, rising 7th and 8th graders, explored a variety of habitats in the Bay watershed and investigated Bay issues such as fish-kill events and invasive species.Chesapeake Bay Explorers, rising 7th and 8th graders, enjoyed a weeklong overnight trip to the VIMS Eastern Shore Laboratory. The youngest group to ever participate in an ESL program, the students hiked, canoed, boated, trawled, dredged, seined, dissected, and more.

21 VIMS Foundation Fellowships Fellowships and awards for students in the School of Marine Science at VIMS recognize and reward qualities that lead to success in graduate school and subsequent careers—including commitment, initiative, scholarship, and interdisciplinary research. This year we are glad to announce the Holland and Roper fellowships, which were offered for the first time.

Barbara and Harry Hager Fellowship Hunter B. Andrews, Jr., Fellowships Matthew Whalen, M.S. Student Kristene Parsons, Ph.D. Student Faculty Advisor Emmett Duffy Faculty Advisor Tracey Sutton Identifying the role of mesoherbivory in seagrass Shark assemblage structure and biogeographic systems distribution in Chesapeake Bay and coastal Virginia Kristene Parsons

Matt Whalen Beazley Fellowship Wenda Ribeiro, Ph.D. Student Alison Deary, M.S. Student Faculty Advisor Kimberly Reece Faculty Advisor Eric Hilton Detection and identification of adenovirus in local Habitat differentiation, development of feeding estuarine waters receiving waste water effluent and in apparatus, and sensory development during the shellfish tissue harvested from these waters. ontogeny of larval sciaenids in Chesapeake Bay

Alison Deary Wenda Ribeiro

Edward M. Holland Fellowship Kathryn Sobocinski, Ph.D. Student Lori Sutter, Ph.D. Student Faculty Advisors Rob Latour & Emmett Faculty Advisor Jim Perry Duffy Vegetative community nutrient uptake Connecting productivity in eelgrass beds to fishes along the York River salinity gradient: in Chesapeake Bay Kathryn Sobocinski Implications of rising sea level Lori Sutter Zeigler Fellowship Funded by Charles Natale Ferguson Enterprises Fellowship Ryan Schloesser, Ph.D. Student Christina Pondell, M.S. Student Faculty Advisor Mary Fabrizio Faculty Advisor Elizabeth Canuel Changes in the distribution and abundance of The effects of changes in land-use and climate on non-indigenous species in Chesapeake Bay organic carbon accumulation in reservoirs based on trawl surveys

Christina Pondell Ryan Schloesser 22 Juliette B. and Carroll W. SunTrust Fellowship Owens, Sr. Fellowship Emily Jayne, M.S. Student Erin Jenkins, M.S. Student Faculty Advisors Rebecca Dickhut and Elizabeth Faculty Advisor Jeffrey Shields Canuel Parasite biology in local crustacean Development of methodology for quantifying air-sea populations Erin Jenkins fluxes of volatile organic carbon

Emily Jayne Kathleen and Robert Roper Fellowship Virginia Institute of Marine Science Julia Moriarty, M.S. Student Faculty Advisor Courtney Harris Council Fellowship Sediment transport and deposition on the Waipaoa Andre Buchheister, Ph.D. Candidate River continental shelf, New Zealand Faculty Advisor Robert Latour Food web dynamics and community structure of Julia Moriarty demersal fishes in Chesapeake Bay

Andre Buchheister

The new Vessels Operation and Field-Support Center at VIMS (rear of photo) is a two-story, 10,000 square-foot building that will replace facilites that were severely damaged during Hurricane Isabel.

23 VIMS Foundation Financials Statement of Financial Position June 30, 2009 Statement of Activities for the Year Ended June 30, 2009

Assets Temporarily Permanently Current Assets Unrestricted Restricted Restricted Total Cash and cash equivalents $ 703,705 Revenue, Gains, and Pledges receivable $ 256,684 Other Support Total Current Assets $ 960,389 Contributions $ 293,656 $ 261,095 $ 51,778 $ 606,529 Investments $ 5,522,090 Net Investment Income (Loss) $ (379,518) $ (644,282) - $ (1,023,800) $ (85,862) $ (383,187) $ 51,778 $ (417,271) Other Assets Net assets released from restrictions $ 480,540 $ (480,540) - - Pledges receivable $ 196,083 Total Revenue, Gains, and $ 394,678 $ (863,727) $ 51,778 $ (417,271) TOTAL ASSETS $6,678,562 Other Support

Liabilities and Net Assets Expenses Accounts payable $ - Accounting and Legal $ 13,215 - - $ 13,215 Bank Fees $ 6,916 - - $ 6,916 Net Assets Grants and Support $ 634,018 - - $ 634,018 Unrestricted, as restated $ 260,472 Taxes and Licenses $ 2,399 - - $ 2,399 Temporarily restricted, as restated $ 2,118,572 Insurance $ 4,658 - - $ 4,658 Permanently restricted $ 4,299,518 Total Expenses $ 661,206 - - $ 661,206 Total Net Assets $ 6,678,562 Change in Net Assets $(266,528) $ (863,727) $ 51,778 $(1,078,477) TOTAL LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS $6,678,562 Net Assets, Beginning of Year $ 527,000 $ 2,982,299 $4,247,740 $ 7,757,039 NET ASSETS, END OF YEAR $ 260,472 $ 2,118,572 $4,299,518 $ 6,678,562

2424 William and Mary Investment Trust (WAMIT) Investment Performance The College of William & Mary Foundation administers about two-thirds of the endowed assets held university-wide through the William & Mary Investment INVESTMENT RESULTS Trust (WAMIT). Created in 2004, WAMIT allows endowed funds held by Fiscal year 2009, net of all fees College-related foundations to be pooled for investment purposes. 1 YEAR 3 YEARS 5 YEARS The foundations associated with the schools of Marine Science, Business, and The William & Mary Investment Trust (WAMIT) -16.3% -0.7% 4.7% Law are all members of WAMIT along with the William & Mary Foundation. Overseen by the William & Mary Foundation’s Investments Committee, Blended Benchmark -21.4% -5.0% 0.7% WAMIT employs a long-term investment approach and incorporates many Value Added 5.1% 4.4% 4.0% diversifying strategies that work to lower the funds’ risk profile, especially during turbulent times in the national and global markets. The five-year rate of Policy Benchmark: 60% Russell 3000 Index, 20% MSCIWorld ex-US, 20% Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index return for WAMIT’s portfolio was 4.7 percent (annualized) through June 30, 2009. In the long run, the objective is to achieve real growth of 2 percent in the Foundation’s general pool so that the purchasing power of each endowed fund is retained for future generations. THE WILLIAM & MARY INVESTMENT TRUST: ASSET ALLOCATION OF POLICY PORTFOLIO Fiscal year 2009 POLICY ACTUAL Domestic Equities 20% 18.4%

Foreign Equities 13% 9.1%

Emerging Market Equities 7% 10.2%

Fixed Income 12% 13.0%

Special Situations 10% 13.2%

Absolute Return 20% 16.1%

Real Assets 10% 8.4%

Private Equity 8% 3.9% Robert Richter, a resident of Gloucester and a long-time collector of materials related to Matthew Fontaine Maury, presents Maury’s “Wind and Current Charts”, published Cash 0% 7.9% in 1854, to VIMS Dean & Director John Wells. The Hargis Library at VIMS has an outstanding collection of Maury materials, including his chart table, which was donated by his descendents. Maury is a native Virginian often referred to as the father of oceanography and the “Pathfinder of the Seas.” 25 Art Show and Auction

VIMS’ 2009 Art Show and Auction During the gala event, participants netted more than $30,000 to support bid on selected works by the Turners, student research during the 2009- as well as trips, jewelry, marine William Turner, W&M President Taylor 2010 academic year. Auction equipment, and other items from a Reveley, VIMS Foundation President proceeds have been particularly Carroll Owens and VIMS Dean and diverse selection of leading artists. A Director John Wells. helpful in these economic times highlight of the auction was a group of when several students have lost their six river otters sculpted in bronze by funding support. the Turners.

The auction featured the works of William Turner says he greatly Eastern Shore sculptors William enjoyed his participation in this year’s and David Turner, a father and son event. “It’s good to know that our Let the bidding begin. team known internationally for their sculptures helped VIMS in its efforts wildlife sculptures in bronze. to conserve and manage the Bay and its wildlife.” Art Auction Committee

Mrs. Tammy Bacot, Chair Dr. Bill DuPaul Mrs. Nancy George Mo Lynch, VIMS Annual Appeal chair, and his wife Gin check an item up for bid. Mrs. Tish Grant Mr. Bill Hudgins Ms. Betty Jones Dr. Maurice Lynch Mr. Dick Morgan Ms. Holly Nordholm Tammy Bacot, Auction Chair Dr. William Reay Student volunteers 26 Donors & Supporters VIMS received gifts totaling $1,409,539 in fiscal year 2009 (July 1, 2008 – June 30, 2009). In addition, the VIMS Art Show and Auction raised more than $30,000 for student research. We sincerely thank all donors and recognize members of the Maury Society, who make leadership gifts of $1,000 or more, and VIMS Pathfinders, for their generous lifetime commitments to research, education, and advisory service in marine science. Pathfinders The Virginia Institute of Marine Science is proud to recognize the following individuals, corporations, and foundations that have generously supported its work with lifetime gifts of $100,000 or more. Mr. and Mrs. A. Marshall Acuff, Jr. Mr. Peter L. Foley Prizm Ace, Inc. The Honorable Hunter B. Andrews*and Friend of VIMS Rouse-Bottom Foundation Mrs. Cynthia C. Andrews Mrs. Inge Gläsel and Mr. Peter Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation Bank of America C. Gläsel* Southeastern Universities Research Mr. Matthew T. Blackwood* Mr. Lewis L. Glucksman* and Mrs. Association Bluewater Yacht Sales Loretta Glucksman The Community Foundation serving Mr. Alex P. Burruss* and Mrs. Mary Dr. and Mrs. Harry G. Hager, Jr. Richmond and Central Virginia Catlett Burruss Honeywell, Inc./AlliedSignal Foundation The Offield Family Foundation The Keith Campbell Foundation Mrs. Ann Kauffman* and Mr. John Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Tullidge, Jr. P. D. Kauffman Mr. and Mrs. Charles Catlett Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Tullidge, Sr. Massey Foundation Mr. John W. C. Catlett, Jr. Dr. Willard A. Van Engel Nature Conservancy Chesapeake Corporation Estate of Mr. and Mrs. Woodford G. David P. Clifford Norfolk Dredging Company Vaughan, Jr.* CSX Corporation Norfolk Southern Corporation Virginia Environmental Endowment Dominion Resources, Inc. Moses D. Nunnally Charitable Trust Mr. and Mrs. Alan Voorhees* Fetch, LLC Elis Olsson Memorial Foundation Mr. A. Thomas and Mrs. Page Fluor Foundation Owens Foundation Hayden Young The Maury Society Named for the “Pathfinder of the Seas” Matthew Fontaine Maury, the Maury Society recognizes donors who make an annual gift of $1,000 or more. This group of dedicated patrons helps VIMS to continue Maury’s tradition of scientific discovery. $100,000 - $249,000 Nature Conservancy James A. Hixon, Esquire Anonymous Norfolk Southern Corporation Elis Olsson Memorial Foundation The Estate of Mr. Matthew T. Moses D. Nunnally Charitable Trust Robert and Kathleen Roper Family Fund of the Mathews Community Foundation Blackwood* $10,000 - $49,999 The Keith Campbell Foundation SunTrust Foundation Mid-Atlantic Mr. and Mrs. R. Bruce Bradley Fetch, LLC/David Clifford The Community Foundation Serving Mr. H. R. Dunlap Massey Foundation Richmond and Central Virginia Mrs. Inge Gläsel Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Tullidge, Sr. $50,000 - $99,999 Garland and Agnes Taylor Gray Anonymous Foundation Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund 27 * Deceased $5,000 - $9,999 $500 - $999 Mr. and Mrs. Richard K. Holmquist Dr. Christian E. Creteur Captain Ed Lawrence Beazley Foundation, Inc. Mrs. Patricia M. Almond Mr. and Mrs. S. Wally Dawson, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Brent G. Meadors Dr. and Mrs. Gerald Broock Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. John W. Dayton Ms. Kelly Mihalcoe Mrs. Pamela F. Faggert Bass Pro Shops Dominion Ms. Holly Jo Nordholm Garden Club of America Mrs. Marilyn M. Entwisle Ms. Michela English and Mr. Robert Mr. Rick Nunnally Mr. A. Travis Massey Capt. John H. Garrett, Jr., USN, (Ret.) Quartel, Jr. Ms. Mary E. Peacock Ms. Kathryn B. McQuade Graces Parent Association Francois A. Espourteille, Ph.D. Speckulater Charters Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Natale, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Carl Hershner ESS Group, Inc. Tidewater Newspapers, Inc. Owens Foundation JCB Transport, Inc. Ferguson Enterprises, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Austin L. Roberts, III Rouse-Bottom Foundation Kelsick Specialty Market First Advantage Federal Credit Union Mr. and Mrs. Bobbie L. Roberts Mr. and Mrs. A. Thomas Young Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Lombard Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Gottwald Dr. Michael A. Unger Martin, Ingles & Ingles, Ltd. $2,500 - $4,999 Harry & Harriet Grandis Family Mr. Jacques van Montfrans and Mrs. Suzann Wilson Matthews Foundation Ms. Elizabeth Wilkins Mr. A. Marshall Acuff, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Henry H. McVey, III Herndon Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Harrison G. Wehner, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. L.D. Amory, III Mid-Atlantic Marine Group Mr. and Mrs. Jon Hill York River Inn Bed & Breakfast Elizabeth L. Anderson, Ph.D. and Dr. and Mrs. John D. Milliman The Honorable and Mrs. Edward M. Holland Mr. and Mrs. Earl L. Young Dr. Edward L. Delaney Mr. Richard Morgan The Honorable and Mrs. A. Linwood Holton Mr. David E. Zwerner Dr. and Mrs. D. Christopher Bosworth Mrs. Kathy Hornsby Dr. David Morris Christopher Wren Association Mr. Steven A. Johnsen and Ms. Teresa Munford $100 - $249 Mr. and Mrs. Adrian G. DuPlantier, Jr. Dr. Barbara A. Johnsen Oceanside Conservation Company, Inc. Dr. and Mrs. James P. Amon Mr. and Mrs. Henry H. George Ms. Caramine Kellam Dr. John E. Olney Dr. Iris Anderson Golden Creations Mr. E. Polk Kellam, Jr. Dr. Linda C. Schaffner Animal Care of Gloucester Mr. and Mrs. R. Peter Lalor Lake Frances Marina, Ltd. Virginia Yacht Club Dr. Krisa M. Arzayus and Dr. and Mrs. Maurice P. Lynch Mr. Dennis H. Liberson Dr. Oscar W. Ward, Jr. Mr. L. Felipe Arzayus Mrs. Peggy W. Marlatt Dr. G. Alex Marsh, III Mr. Harry H. Wason Mr. Thomas A. Barnard, Jr. Charles Stewart Mott Foundation The Honorable and Mrs. John O. West Marine Mr. Jim Bento Riverside Health System Foundation Marsh, III William & Mary Catering Services Dr. Joseph N. Boyer Turner Sculpture Mr. and Mrs. Hugh McCormick Williamsburg Plantation Resort Mr. David V. Bristow Dr. and Mrs. John T. Wells Mr. and Mrs. Donald G. Owens Dr. W. Stanley Wilson Dr. Hugh A. Brooks Ronald West Family Foundation Phillips Energy, Inc. York Chapter Chesapeake Bay Mr. Joseph H. Brown Foundation, Inc. $1,000 - $2,499 Mr. and Mrs. James E. Rogers Mr. and Mrs. E.A. Brummer Mr. and Mrs. Timothy L. Rollins Anonymous $250 - $499 Mr. Alfie Butts Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Roper, Jr. Mrs. Cynthia C. Andrews R. Harvey Chappell, Jr., Esquire Mr. and Mrs. R. Gordon Smith Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. Dan M. Bacot, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Peter M. Clay Mr. Steve Snyder Dr. Thomas A. Armitage Ms. Cynthia V. Bailey Ms. Maria K. Cochran and Stingray Point Marina Dr. Jay Austin and Ballard Fish & Oyster Company Mr. Aaron Adams Mr. and Mrs. William J. Strickland Dr. Elizabeth C. Austin-Minor Ms. Susan O. Barrick Curry & Curry SunTrust Bank Black Dog Gallery Mrs. Jennifer Bateman and Mr. Jay Mr. and Mrs. Joe C. Curtis, III Ms. Theresa Thompson Mr. and Mrs. Wesley M. Brown Bateman Mr. and Mrs. Donald W. Davis, Jr. Mrs. Mary Wright Thrasher* Dance’s Sporting Goods Bluewater Yacht Sales Mrs. Jennifer S. Dillon Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Walker Dr. Elizabeth Canuel and Dr. J. Emmett Duffy Dr. John D. Boon, III Mr. and Mrs. Sidney C. Dixon Wanchese Fish Company, Inc. Colonial Virginia Bank Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Brinley, II Dr. and Mrs. John P. Doley Weldon Owen Publishing Corner Cottage Frame Shop Mrs. Mary A. Catlett Burruss Mr. James E. Douglas, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Philip A. Wenger Mrs. Jean S. Feng Dr. Robert J. Byrne and Dr. Joan Byrne Jack and Craig Dozier Mr. and Mrs. F. Case Whittemore Guy Harvey Publishing Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Causey, Jr. Mr. William Elias Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wilson Mrs. Jane Armistead Hall Chesapeake Bank Mr. Kenneth M. Elliott, III Douglas S. Wood, Esquire Ms. Ellen Fisher Mr. and Mrs. Julian F. Cox, Jr. Mr. Walt Evaniak Friends of Harvey Morgan Mr. Mark S. Evans 28 * Deceased Mrs. Dorothy N. Gabig and Sam Rust Seafood, Inc. Ms. Carole K. Castleberry Mr. A. John Gabig Mr. Bill Savage CBC, Inc. Mr. Lance Gardner Mr. and Mrs. Henry T. Schreyer, Jr. Center Street Grill Mrs. Emily Wells Gianfortoni Mr. A. Kenneth Scribner, Jr. Chesapeake Bay Foundation Mrs. Patricia Gurley SCRIMSHAW by Linda Walker Dr. and Mrs. Alan B. Cohen Ms. Peggy E. Hargis Specialty Building Supply, Inc. Ms. Elizabeth A. Cornell Dr. Carl H. Hobbs, III Claude V. Spratley, III, Esquire Mr. Charles J. Costello Dr. Andrij Horodysky Mr. Kersey Sturdivant Cowlings BBQ Mr. and Mrs. T. Parker Host, III Tartan Golf Club Mr. Thomas Coye Mr. and Mrs. John Houyoux The Poddery Mr. Christian D. Crippen Lieutenant Colonel and The Skin Clinic Mrs. Jennifer B. Crippen Mrs. David W. Howell The Spa at Williamsburg Plantation Mr. and Mrs. Wiley Cross, Jr. Mrs. Mary S. Humelsine The Williamsburg Winery, Ltd. Crown Pointe Marina Dr. and Mrs. Mohammed S. Huq Tribe Club Curves Ingleside Vineyards Ms. Pauline P. Trimpi Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Disharoon Mr. Michael Ivey Viccellio Goldsmith Neil Drumheller Ms. Betty B. Jones Virginia Living Museum Mr. and Mrs. William G. Emerson Kathy Corbet Interiors Virginia Shakespeare Festival Faith Baptist Church Kingsmill Yacht Club Virginia Symphony Orchestra Farm Fresh Charitable Foundation Dr. Albert Y. Kuo Mr. Sam Wallace Dr. and Mrs. Robert J. Faulconer Lipscombe Furniture TV & Appliances Mr. Dennis T. Walsh Mr. James B. Feeley Dr. Anne A. Marshall and Mr. Davis Marshall Mrs. Lorna C. Wass Ms. Sandra J. Fenwick Mr. Gordon Martin Williamsburg Alumni Chapter Dr. Daniel J. Fisher Dr. and Mrs. Lockert B. Mason Mr. David M. Wyanski Gloucester House Mrs. Elizabeth J. Mathers York River Yacht Haven Mr. Jason S. Goldberg Ms. Miranda McClintic Mrs. Marilyn A. Zeigler Mr. and Mrs. Willard S. Grant Mr. and Mrs. Read McGehee $1 - $99 Mr. H. Carlyle Gravely, III Mr. George J. McVey, Jr. Green Gates Gifts, Furniture & Accessories Mr. Jonathan D. Mintz Anonymous Green Top Sporting Goods Morning Glory Gallery Mr. Michael J. Antczak Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Hampton Mr. and Mrs. John A. Munick, Jr. Mr. Michael D. Arendt Mr. and Mrs. James H. Hargis The Honorable and Ash Lawn-Highland Mrs. Constance M. Harris Mrs. W. Tayloe Murphy, Jr. Ash Lawn Opera Mr. and Mrs. James H. Harris Dr. B. Voss Neal Mr. and Mrs. Rexford F. Beckwith, III Mr. Thomas M. Harris Ms. Robin H. Newland Mrs. Mary Hyde Berg Mr. John B. Harvie, Jr. Dr. Maynard Nichols Ms. Helen S.M. Blackwood Mr. and Mrs. Dexter S. Haven North River Inn Mr. Donald J. Blakeslee Ms. Anne Jackson Henry Ocean Marine Yacht Center The Honorable Robert S. Bloxom Ms. Grace S. Heron Captain and Mrs. Edward C. Oldfield, Jr. Blue Crab Bay Company Mr. and Mrs. O. Paul Higgins, III Mr. Frederick A. Olverson Blue Heron Restaurant Mr. Ray Hooker Dr. Robert J. Orth Bob Jones University Johns Hopkins University John E. Owens, Esquire and Mr. and Mrs. James C. Boyd Mr. William W. Jenkins The Honorable Donna B. Owens Brent & Becky’s Bulbs Jimmy & Sook Retail Store Professor and Mrs. John B. Pleasants Dr. Edward E. Brickell Dr. Stephen R. Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Clyde A. Ratcliffe Dr. Victor G. Burrell, Jr. Mr. Anthony C. Kaczka Ms. Elizabeth Rawles Buttons-n-Bows Children’s Shop James J. Kail, DDS Rivers Rest Marina Reverend and Mrs. L. Lawson Byrd Mr. and Mrs. David P. Kilduff Mr. and Mrs. Stephen R. Rosenkranz Ms. Andrea K. Calfee Kilmarnock Lettering Company Dr. and Mrs. Hawes Campbell, III * Deceased Mr. and Mrs. William H. Koehler 29 Mayer G. Levy Revocable Trust The Honorable and Mrs. Frederick B. Lowe In Honor/In Memory Gifts Lowes of Gloucester A Note to Our Donors Mr. and Mrs. Terence D. Malarkey The Virginia Institute of Marine Science Mariners’ Museum In memory of Dr. William J. Ms. Elsie L. Mulrooney values all forms of support for its Ms. Anne R. Marshall North River Circle of the tripartite mission of research, education, Mr. Sterry M. McGee Hargis, Jr. (Gifts to the William King’s Daughters and advisory service. We are especially Mr. George J. McVey J. Hargis, Jr. Library and the Dr. John Olney appreciative of the efforts of the many Mr. and Mrs. Hugh S. Meredith William J. Hargis, Jr. Fellow- Professor and Mrs. John Pleasants alumni and friends who volunteer at Ms. Laurie C. Meree Mr. and Mrs. Timothy L. Rollins ship): VIMS. Mr. Charles H. Merritt John Scarborough, Inc. Mobjack Bay Seafood Dr. Iris Anderson and Ms. Eileen Shea This report includes donors whose gifts Ms. Elsie L. Mulrooney Mr. Griff Anderson Mr. and Mrs. David Thomas were received between July 1, 2008 and Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth A. Moore Dr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Dr. Oscar W. Ward, Jr. June 30, 2009. We apologize for any Dr. John A. Musick and Mrs. Beverly Barnard, Jr. R. T. Wells Builders, Inc. errors or omissions, and hope you bring McMillan Ms. Susan O. Barrick Dr. W. Stanley Wilson them to our attention. Please report North River Circle of The Kings Daughters Bob Jones University Mr. David M. Wyanski corrections to Lisa Phipps, Office of Professor Ray T. Oglesby Ms. Jean J. Brown York Chapter, Chesapeake Development, Virginia Institute of Marine Peace Frogs, Inc. Mr. Joseph H. Brown Bay Foundation, Inc. Science, P. O. Box 1346, Gloucester Rappahannock Concrete Corporation Dr. and Mrs. Victor Burrell, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. David Zwerner Rappahannock Hang-Ups Rev. and L. Lawson Byrd Point, VA 23062, (804) 684-7099, Felicity Rask Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Inc. In memory of gifts to the VIMS [email protected]. Mrs. Ashley Hudgins Rice Ms. Elizabeth A. Cornell and Foundation: Mr. and Mrs. William O. Rogers Mr. James J. Vild Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Ryland, Jr. Mr. W. E. Cross, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John W. Dayton in John Scarborough, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Joe C. Curtis, III memory of Mr. Matthew T. Ms. Eileen L. Shea Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Dixon Blackwood Mr. and Mrs. Peter Sidway Mr. James E. Douglas, Jr. Mrs. Mary Wright Thrasher in Smith’s Florist & Gift Shoppe Mr. Kenneth M. Elliott, III memory of Dr. Robert H. Thrasher Mr. Gary A. Spivack Faith Baptist Church In memory gift designated for Sundog Yoga Mr. and Mrs. James B. Feeley Sushi-Foremost Ms. Sandra Fenwick VIMS’ Sea Turtle program: Ta Da Gifts! Dr. and Mrs. Daniel Fisher Mr. Bill Savage in loving memory of The Compleat Gourmet Gloucester House Ms. Paula Joyner The Riverwalk Restaurant-Yorktown Mr. and Mrs. James H. Hargis Mr. and Mrs. David Thomas Mr. Patrick Hargis and his friends In honor of gifts to the VIMS Mr. and Mrs. George Thompson and associates at Marine Corps Foundation: Twice Told Tales Systems Command, Quantico Ferguson Enterprises, Inc. in honor Mr. James J. Vild Mrs. Peggy E. Hargis of Mr. David L. Peebles Ms. Diane Walker Mr. and Mrs. Dexter Haven Ms. Emily Wells Gianfortoni in Mr. Brian Watkins Dr. and Mrs. Carl Hershner honor of Dr. John T. Wells Ms. Catherine Weaver Mr. and Mrs. O. Paul Higgins, III Mr. George J. McVey in honor of L.T. Wells Builders, Inc. Dr. Carl H. Hobbs, III Dr. and Mrs. Hawes Campbell Dr. Peter E. Wilcox Mr. and Mrs. Richard Holmquist Mr. and Mrs. Henry H. McVey, III Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Young Mr. and Mrs. T. Parker Host, Jr. in honor of Mrs. Candy Campbell Dr. Peter J. Zullo Ms. Mary S. Humelsine Mr. Dennis T. Walsh in honor of Mr. Kip Johnson Mr. Dexter S. Haven Dr. Albert Kuo Waterside view, William J. Mr. Sterry M. McGee * Deceased Hargis, Jr. library at VIMS. 30 VIMS Financials FY 2008-09

REVENUE General Funds $19,769,965 Non-general Funds Tuition and Other Funds 1,774,991 Grants & Contracts 21,612,081 Private Funds 800,443

Total Revenue $43,957,480*

EXPENDITURES Instruction $1,767,569 Research and Advisory Services 9,534,004 Public Service 9,962 Academic Support 4,333,442 Institutional Support 2,941,028 Plant Operations 3,361,281 Student Financial Assistance 318,054 Sponsored Programs 21,612,081

Total Expenditures** $43,877,420

CAPITAL EXPENDITURES $3,097,268

* Excluding VIMS Foundation. ** Total expenditures differ from total revenues because expenditures include gifts from prior years.

31 William & Mary Board of Visitors As of June 30, 2009 Officers Michael K. Powell, Rector Henry C. Wolf, Vice Rector Suzann W. Matthews, Secretary Members Charles A. Banks III R. Philip Herget III Student Representatives Janet M. Brashear Kathy Y. Hornsby Valerie R. Hopkins, College of William and Mary Colin G. Campbell Anita O. Poston Landon K. Reidmiller, Richard Bland College Thomas E. Capps Robert E. Scott Timothy P. Dunn John Charles Thomas Faculty Representatives John W. Gerdelman Jeffrey B. Trammel Katherine M. Kulick, College of William and Mary Sarah I. Gore Barbara B. Ukrop Alexandra Duckworth, Richard Bland College

VIMS Administrative Officers

Dr. John Wells, Dean and Director Dr. Anne Alexander Marshall, Dr. Carl H. Hobbs, III, Director for Director of Development Operations, Support Services & Dr. Roger Mann, Director of Special Projects Research and Advisory Services Ms. Jane A. Lopez, Director of Sponsored Programs Dr. David Malmquist, Director of Dr. Iris Anderson, Dean of Graduate Communications Studies Ms. Carol Coughlin, Director of the William J. Hargis Library Ms. Carolyn Ridgeway Cook, Director for Planning and Budget Mr. Newton J. Munson, Director of Information Technology & Mr. Richard White, Director of Networking Services Facilities Management

Oyster cages 32 VIMS Council

As of June 30, 2009 Mr. Robert P. Roper, Jr., Chairman Mr. L. D. Amory, III, Vice-Chairman The Honorable John O. Marsh, Jr., Secretary

Dr. Elizabeth L. Anderson Mr. David L. Peebles Mr. Alvin T. Keith Mr. Dan M. Bacot, Jr. Mr. James E. Rogers Mr. Randolph W. McElroy Ms. Cynthia V. Bailey Mr. R. Gordon Smith Mr. John R. Miles Mr. A. Cameron Blandford William J. Strickland, Esquire Mr. William C. Monroe Dr. David C. Bosworth Mr. Charles Walker The Honorable W. Tayloe Murphy, Jr. Mrs. Sara M. Boyd Mr. F. Case Whittemore Mr. Joseph R. Neikirk Mr. Charles E. Brinley Mr. Martin H. Wilcox Mr. Henry C. Page, Jr. The Honorable Morris D. Busby Mr. A. Thomas Young Mr. Donald Parus Mr. S. Wally Dawson, Jr. Mr. F. Farrell Sanders Ms. Michela English Emeritus Members Mr. Charles G. Thalhimer, Jr. Ms. Pamela F. Faggert Mr. John A. Ahladas Mr. Charles G. Thalhimer, Sr. Mr. J. Carter Fox Mr. Charles R. Amory Mr. Guilford D. Ware Mr. G. Waddy Garrett Mr. C. C. Ballard, Jr. Ms. Cynthia J. Warner Mr. Thomas E. Gottwald Ms. Kathleen Bennett Dr. Jane C. Webb Mr. C. Christian Hall, III Mr. Arthur H. Bryant, II Mr. William S. Wells, III Mr. Conrad M. Hall Dr. Robert J. Byrne Captain J. Maury Werth, USN (Ret.)* Mr. James A. Hixon Mr. Clifford A. Cutchins, III Dr. James A. Wesson The Honorable Edward M. Holland The Honorable Lawrence S. Mr. Henry C. Wolf The Honorable A. Linwood Holton Eagleburger Mr. Douglas K. Woolfolk Mr. Stephen A. Johnsen Mr. Peter Gläsel* Mr. George A. Zahn, Jr. Mr. Thomas E. Kellum Mr. Bruce C. Gottwald, Sr. Mr. Dennis H. Liberson Mr. John B. Graham Chairmen Emeriti Mr. Gary K. Madson Mr. Emory A. Gross Mr. Thomas Blackburn Mr. A. Travis Massey Mr. Brenton S. Halsey Mr. Carroll W. Owens, Jr. Mr. E. Morgan Massey Mrs. Eva Teig Hardy Mr. W. R. Phillips, Jr. Mr. David N. Meeker Mr. Arthur W. Helwig Mr. James E. Rogers Mr. Charles J. Natale, Jr. Ms. Dianne N. Hoppes* Mr. George W. Roper, Jr. Mr. John R. Nelson Mr. Scott Kauffman Mr. Carroll W. Owens, Jr.

* Deceased 33 VIMS Foundation Board As of June 30, 2009

Mr. Carroll W. Owens, Jr., President Mr. A. Travis Massey Mr. A. Thomas Young, Vice-President Mr. E. Morgan Massey Mr. Henry H. George, Treasurer Mr. James E. Rogers Mr. Guilford D. Ware, Secretary Mr. Robert P. Roper, Jr., VIMS Council Representative Mr. Arthur H. Bryant, II Dr. John T. Wells, Ex-Officio Mr. C. Christian Hall, III

Alumni Representatives Dr. Maurice P. Lynch, Chair Annual Appeal and Alumni Outreach Elizabeth Hinchey Malloy, M.A. ‘96, Ph.D. ‘02, Graduate Alumni Reporter Janet Nestlerode, M.A. ‘96, Ph.D. ‘04, Graduate Alumni Reporter View of York River from VIMS beach.

34 Protect the Bay and our Planet: Support the VIMS Foundation!

VIMS scientists and students work every day on issues affecting our marine resources. As the VIMS Foundation approaches its 10th anniversary, we need your support to build endowments to assure that the Virginia Institute of Marine Science and the School of Marine Science remain strong well into the future. VIMS produces the science behind saving Chesapeake Bay, managing our fisheries, understanding and protecting water quality in the Commonwealth, and much more. Marine science knows no boundaries, and our scientists are collaborating internationally on issues affecting the globe—from oyster disease to loss of submerged aquatic vegetation and growth of marine dead zones. If you are interested in an outright gift to support current needs and challenges in the Bay or in a legacy to support the marine scientists of the future, please contact the VIMS Development Office at 804-684-7107 or 804-684-7099. Thank you for your interest and support!

35 Save the Date

Marine Science Day Open House - May 22, 2010

Not printed at public expense Printed on recycled paper 36