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About Us

About Us

About EPSCoR

About Ridge to Reef

Administration

Archive

Resources

Research in action

Watch our documentary videos featuring VI-EPSCoR researchers and students.

watch the videos
Areas of Research

Areas of Research

Watershed

Mangroves

Emerging Areas – Alien Seagrass

Emerging Areas – Movement Ecology

Emerging Areas – Shoreline Response

Fish Ecology

Oceanography

Coral Reef Resilience

Coral Disease & Restoration

Heavy metals and VOCs detected in USVI streambeds.

The Watershed Team has published an article in Scientific Reports which highlights human impacts on USVI guts. Their study suggests that elevated levels of certain heavy metals and VOCs in streambed sediments indicate that guts require a more actionable protection plan.

Read the article
Workforce Development

Workforce Development

Teacher Professional Development & Mentoring and Research Infrastructure

Undergraduate Education Research

Informal Learning

We are building a community of STEM professionals.

Visit the STEM Institute page to learn more about how we are supporting teachers, students and placed-based learning.

the stem institute
Highlights

Highlights

Five Years of Growth: Summer Educator Summit

Read the Blog

Newsletters

Research In Action Videos

The Hull Bay Restoration Project

Mangroves 360

USVI Marine Debris Curriculum

TEDxSaintThomas Talks

Rebuilding Research Capacity at the MacLean Marine Science Center

Have you read our latest newsletter? You can view it online now using the link below.

Read it now
Current Events

Current Events

The Great Mangrove Cleanup 2025

Register today to be a part of the solution! Join the Great Mangrove Cleanup – events are taking place on St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix. PLUS, see the our Forgotten Shorelines video…its unforgettable.

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There's Hope For Lingering Hurricane Debris Thanks To $100K In Funding From NOAA's Marine Debris Program
MARINE DEBRIS Elisa Bryan 10/25/19 MARINE DEBRIS Elisa Bryan 10/25/19

There's Hope For Lingering Hurricane Debris Thanks To $100K In Funding From NOAA's Marine Debris Program

The University of the Virgin Islands Receives $100k in Funding from the NOAA Marine Debris Program to Remove Hurricane Debris from Mangrove Shorelines and Create a new Marine Debris Action Plan for the Territory

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Service Learning and Hurricane Recovery: A Reflection 
EDUCATION, VI-ISERP Elisa Bryan 10/18/18 EDUCATION, VI-ISERP Elisa Bryan 10/18/18

Service Learning and Hurricane Recovery: A Reflection 

AmeriCorps alum, Dr. Michele Guannel, revisits the spirit of service by bringing UVI students outside the classroom to  contribute to real-time disaster recovery in Science 100, the course on natural disasters and local ecosystems of the Caribbean.

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St. Thomas, VI 00802

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phone 340-693-1215

This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation under Grant No. OIA-1946412.

Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. National Science Foundation.