
https://www.coastaleducation.virginia.edu/wp/
In the meantime, you can see the process of our explorations on the Ghosts of the Coast Facebook page.
The Coastal Research Center is open with reduced capacity in response to Covid-19 risk.
As of 3 June 2020
To request a visit or use of station resources, contact the Site Director – Cora Johnston – at coraj@virginia.edu or (757) 620-7016 (text or call).
Please review our Station Policies with regard to operations under COVID-19 restrictions.
Staff continue to work off site and can be reached by email or phone (see staff info at the bottom of this page).
You can visit UVA’s website to read the University of Virginia’s complete set of policies in response to Covid-19.
Writers: The writer’s workshop scheduled for late April has been canceled. We will be in touch soon with more details.
Artists: We are making plans to continue with the ghost forest collective, though scheduling remains tentative. Invited artists have been notified.
Thank you for your patience and understanding. Updates will be posted here as they become available.

Welcome to the Anheuser-Busch Coastal Research Center (ABCRC) of the University of Virginia!
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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.
Consult the menus (above) for additional information and resources. You can also view an interactive map showing ABCRC sites and facilities.