Spend summer 2023 at the Coastal Research Center! Applications are now open for Undergraduate Research Experiences (REUs) with the Virginia Coast Reserve LTER.
Applications are Due February 15th.
For more information and to apply: https://www.abcrc.virginia.edu/siteman2/index.php/2023/01/12/2023vcrreus/
Learn more about REUs at Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) sites: https://lternet.edu/education-and-training/undergraduate/
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.
To inquire about visits and facility use, please contact the Site Director – Cora Baird (coraj@virginia.edu).
COVID Policy Update:
Our Covid-19 policies have been updated for the 2022 field season. Please review the policies here, or download them here.
If you have tested positive for Covid19, or have been exposed to someone with Covid19: please delay your arrival at the research center, contact the site director (Cora Baird, coraj@virginia.edu), and wait for approval for your visit.

A glimpse of station life with VCR LTER
We envision VCR LTER and the Coastal Research Center as a thriving research community where both our scientists’ identities and their research projects are fully supported.