FALL 2011

  VIRGINIA PROGRAM GRANT AWARDS

$87,000
Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, Virginia
Climate Change and the Fisheries Food Web in the Chesapeake Bay
and Coastal Atlantic Ocean (Two Years) – Matched by $88,060

$60,000
Southern Environmental Law Center, Charlottesville, Virginia
Leadership for Land Conservation and the Chesapeake Bay
Matched by $240,000

$25,000
The Elizabeth River Project, Portsmouth, Virginia
The Learning Barge: Building the Capacity to Achieve Sustained Funding
Matched by $27,500

$24,000
Virginia Junior Academy of Science, Richmond, Virginia
The Henry W. MacKenzie Jr. Environmental Scholarship
(Four Years)

$23,417
Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk, Virginia
Estimating Nutrient Inputs Through Stochastic Events in a Lower Chesapeake Bay Tributary
Matched by $23,983

$17,600
Wetlands Watch, Inc., Norfolk, Virginia
Sea Level Rise Adaptation: Marketing to the Private Business Sector
Matched by $17,842

$6,600
Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia
Environment Virginia Symposium
April 10-12, 2012

VIRGINIA MINI-GRANT AWARDS

$2,713
Waller Mill Elementary School, Williamsburg, Virginia
Friends with Nature Field Classroom and Walking Trail
Matched by $825 in kind and volunteer services

$4,550
Nansemond River Preservation Alliance, Suffolk, Virginia
Restoring Suffolk Waterway: Oyster Restoration Project
Matched by $1,250 + $4,500 in-kind

$4,000
Varina High School, Richmond, Virginia
Investigation of Water Quality and Endocrine Disrupters in the James River in
Richmond, Virginia – Matched by in-kind and volunteer services of USGS

KANAWHA & OHIO RIVER VALLEYS PROGRAM GRANT AWARDS

$30,000
West Virginia Rivers Coalition, Elkins, West Virginia
Water Policies in West Virginia: Maintaining an independent and science based voice
to protect our water resources (Two Years) – Matched by $40,500

$30,000
Watershed Watch in Kentucky, Inc., Midway, Kentucky
Watershed Watch in Kentucky Program
 Matched by $30,000