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The air quality wasn’t great for our quarterly Water Quality Sampling at the Virginia Coast Reserve LTER yesterday, but there were some pretty stellar crews out on the bays!

The #restoration and #conservation of #coastal habitats can enhance #biodiversity and support ecosystem function in the face of global change.🏝️ Read more on this from Hardison, McGlathery, and Castorani at doi.org/10.1111/cobi.1… #science

Coastal marine megaripples are metabolic hotspots with highly dynamic oxygen exchange – Check out our new aquatic #EddyCovariance paper: aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… Image: Google Earth

Some August happenings at the VCR #LTER. Thank you to Sophia Hoffman for the photos 📸

New paper alert! 🚨🌊🌱Led by Dr. Alex Smith, we looked at how coastal ecosystems can absorb regional carbon losses caused by shifts in ecosystem cover. Alex Smith UVa EnviSci Virginia Coast Reserve LTER Flagler College link.springer.com/article/10.100…

New paper: It took only 7 years for surviving #bluecarbon ecosystems to replace 36 years worth of degradation across the entire Virginia Coast Reserve LTER coast. Led by Alex Smith Virginia Institute of Marine Science. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

🌊🌱 It's here! 🚨🥳 Check out our new (and easy!) method for tracking sediment accretion and erosion in #seagrass meadows. #bluecarbon Karen McGlathery Flagler College UVa EnviSci @ResilienceUVA Virginia Coast Reserve LTER doi.org/10.3389/fmars.…

Clear waters and perfect October weather out on South Bay this morning at the Virginia Coast Reserve LTER #seagrass #seaturtles

A great press article from the UVA Environmental Institute summarizing #vcrlter student, Sean Hardison's, paper that was recently published in Conservation Biology

Our recent analysis of land cover change revealed that nearly 200 Gg of carbon were lost from a portion of the coast in ~40 years BUT compensatory mechanisms in the coastal landscape replaced this loss in <7 years! link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Mark your calendars! Next Wednesday, December 6 will be The Coastal Conservatory’s 2023 Coastal Futures Festival in Nau Hall from 2-5pm. Featuring an album release (“Soundscapes of Restoration” by @matthewburtner) and research talks from Karen McGlathery and Matt Reidenbach

"Existing carbon budgets may overstate the magnitude of the coastal carbon sink" because eroding carbon stocks along the VA Atlantic coast are dominated by deep, UNvegetated sediments (nope, not marsh, not seagrass). New paper by Mary Bryan Barksdale

Looking for paid undergraduate research experience this summer? Apply for a REU position at the Virginia Coast Reserve LTER on the Eastern Shore of Virginia! abcrc.virginia.edu/siteman2/index… Applications are due February 11th. #coastalecology #REU #summerinternship US LTER U.S. National Science Foundation NatureConservancy VA

Applications are now open for paid research experiences for undergraduates this summer at the Virginia Coast Reserve LTER! abcrc.virginia.edu/siteman2/ Applications are due February 11th. US LTER #REU #USLTER #VCR

Orientation to the LTER Network—webinar this Wednesday, 1/24! Register for this Community Call, our first, here: lternet.edu/stories/lter-c…

Come spend your summer at the Virginia Coast Reserve #LTER! There are just under 2 weeks left to apply for our #REU positions; applications are due February 11th. U.S. National Science Foundation US LTER

Coming this Friday! Want to learn about science graphics with a Senior Art Editor of Nature? The LTER Visual Media Webinar is on Friday, February 9, 2024 at 8 am PT/ 11 am ET!  Register for the event below. lternet.edu/stories/introd…

Have you ever been somewhere that might not exist in a few years? This is the north end of Cobb Island, which is rapidly changing. Zoom in for some bonus trimble surveying for scale Lauren Brideau UVa EnviSci Virginia Coast Reserve LTER #barrierisland #easternshore #coastalchange

Good morning, Oyster! Are we ready for the summer field season? Virginia Coast Reserve LTER

How are oyster reefs connected, and how does the distribution of their larvae impact recovering oysters? The Castorani lab at UVA has just deployed a new experiment to find out. We'll return later to add cages that help reveal the role of predation in shaping oyster recruitment.