Anheuser Busch Coastal Research Center


Field station name: Anheuser Busch Coastal Research Center

URL: https://www.abcrc.virginia.edu/siteman2/

Year founded: 2006

Mission statement: Anheuser-Busch Coastal Research Center of the University of Virginia, provides facilities to support a wide variety of research activities in the coastal bays, salt marshes and barrier islands of the Eastern Shore of Virginia.The field station provides laboratory and dormitory facilities, logistics and technical support to visiting ABCRC researchers from various institutions and agencies. Field station personnel maintain the site, conduct collaborative research with other researchers, collect data from meteorological stations, tide gauges, well transects and water level recorders. The staff are here to support your research, logistics to and from research sites, integration of GPS surveys (both kinematic and static), assisting in laboratory facilities and availability and housing/dormitory requirements.

Annual visitors: 42

Land: 43 acres (17 hectares)

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Outreach Goals

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    Build community

    Disseminate place-based knowledge and/or skills

    Encourage conservation or environmental stewardship

    Inspire curiosity

    Make field station resources available to the public

    Promote STEM careers

    Raise awareness of the field station's work

    Raise money

    Reach a particular audience

    Teach about the environment generally

    Teach researchers how to communicate with the public

Outreach Programs