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- With 500+ faculty, staff and students and three campus locations, the Batten School & VIMS are equipped to tackle pressing challenges through research, education and advisory service.
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- Research & Advisory
- Purple marsh crabs are significantly disrupting carbon cycling in salt marshes along the East Coast of the U.S., according to a study led by Batten School & VIMS scientists.
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- Batten School
- The R. Todd Stravitz Scholars Program will provide full tuition support for students pursuing the new bachelor’s degree in coastal & marine sciences at the Batten School & VIMS.
  
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- Popular, free camps enable rising third through eighth graders to learn about the Chesapeake Bay, coastal ecosystems and environmental stewardship.
  
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- News & Events
- National TRAP Program funds large-scale cleanup of discarded fishing gear, first round of subawards totaling more than $1.4M supports 11 projects focused on removing derelict fishing gear from coastal waters in nine U.S. states and Palau.
  
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- Giving
- As an expression of parental pride in their daughter, Taylor Spencer ‘83 and Martha Spencer recently established an undergraduate field research endowment at the Batten School & VIMS.
  
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Amanda Timmerman

Research Scientist

Email: [[v|atimmerman]]
Phone: (804) 684-7237
Office: Chesapeake Bay Hall 124
Section: Ecosystem Health
Interests: biogeochemistry, carbon cycling, primary production, air-sea gas exchange, oxygen

Education

B.S., Global Environmental Science, University of Hawaii Manoa
M.S., Oceanography, University of Hawaii Manoa
Ph.D., Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Victoria BC

Research Interests

As a sea-going oceanographer, her research has primarily focused on ocean biogeochemical cycling. She explores phytoplankton's role in driving spatial and temporal trends in biogeochemical cycling. To better constrain production rates, she compares primary production and carbon export methods. She combines shipboard sampling, satellites and model output to help answer her research questions. Amanda is also the lab manager of the Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer lab.