News & Media

Aug 19, 2023 – “Climate Change Is Coming for a Chesapeake Bay Island. Is It Worth Saving?” (The Wall Street Journal)

Aug 22, 2023 – “For better or worse, invasive phragmites is here to stay” (Chesapeake Bay Journal)
April 25, 2023 – “Ghost forests are a haunting new indicator of climate change in the U.S.” (CBS News)

March 24, 2023 – “Migrating Marshes” (radio
segment: “With Good Reason Radio”)

September 20, 2022 – “Ghost forests appear and spread almost invisibly” (article: USA Today)

September 20, 2022 – “A shared storm for the East Coast’s future” (article: USA Today)

June 17, 2021 – “Marshes on the Move” (article: Science.org)

April 16, 2021 – “Let’s Take a Walk: Goodwin Island” (radio segment: “With Good Reason Radio”)

May 22, 2020 – “Loss of Louisiana marshes that protect New Orleans is ‘ probably inevitable’, study finds” (article, Washington Post)

October 8, 2019 – “As Sea Levels Rise, So Do Ghost Forests” (article: The New York Times)
October 8, 2019 – “Ghost Forest: Dying trees show climate change’s advance” (Scripps News)

October 4, 2019 – “Disappearing Iisland threatens to make its residents climate refugees” (CNN)

October 7, 2019 – “Ghost Forests Are Visceral Examples of the Advance of Climate Change”
(article: TIME Magazine)

August 1, 2017 – “Climate Change Before Your Eyes: Seas Rise and Trees Die” (article: Associated Press)
VIMS News Articles
Coverage of our lab’s activities from the VIMS News & Media team.

March 30, 2023 – “Sea-level rise is double-edged sword for carbon storage“.

June 14, 2022 – “Rural areas will bear the brunt of U.S. sea-level rise“.

January 23, 2017 – “Barrier-island migration drives large-scale marsh loss“.

February 24, 2016 – “Study predicts salt marshes will persist despite rising seas“.

November 11, 2013 – “Chesapeake Bay marsh expert joins VIMS faculty“.