The UVA Arts & Sciences Magazine has a story about UVA Graduate Student Victoria Long and her family history on the Eastern Shore, extending back 400 years and its relation to rising sea level. You can see it at: http://give.as.virginia.edu/news/story/sea-change-eastern-shore
University of Virginia's Coastal Research Center
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.