Impact

Our work seeks to connect research, environment, and people.

Created with biorender.com

William & Mary’s Batten School & VIMS unveil Chesapeake Bay HallChesapeake Bay Hall serves as a hub for much of the lab-based science driving the institutions’ academic, research and advisory missions.

Small Particles, Big Problem: Measuring Microplastics’ Impact on FishViruses are not just a problem for humans. Viruses are common in our oceans and aquatic environments, too

Analyzing the Interplay Between Microplastics and Infectious DiseaseMicroplastics—tiny particles produced as plastics weather and fragment—pose an increasing threat to the environment and human health.

Microplastics make shrimp more vulnerable to deadly diseaseStudy finds that plastic particles prolong virus survival in larval shrimp and impair their defenses

Microplastics are sickening and killing wildlife, disrupting Earth systemsBottlenose dolphins leapt and torpedoed through the shallow turquoise waters off Florida’s Sarasota Bay. Then, a research team moved in, quickly corralling the small pod in a large net. With the speed of a race car pit crew, veterinarians, biologists and their assistants examined the animals, checking vital signs while taking skin, blood and other […]

The Chesapeake Bay is a ‘sink’ for plastic pollutionThe vast majority of plastic pollution that makes its way into the rivers of the Chesapeake Bay stays in and along local waters and is not, as researchers put it,

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2023/10/17/river-cleanup-trash-ocean-plastic-pollution/

Microplastics: An emerging threat to the Chesapeake BayMicroplastics are a result of our decades-long reliance on plastics and their threat to the Bay may not be fully known for years.

Death by plastic: Sea turtles, marine mammals imperiled by growing debris in Chesapeake BayA new report catalogs how plastic pollution in U.S. waters is proving deadly to sea turtles and marine mammals.

Check out more of our published research on Google Scholar.

Page updated

Google Sites

Report abuse