The Batten School & VIMS campus will be closed on Monday, March 15 due to the National Weather Service prediction for severe weather including periods of rain, damaging winds and the potential for tornadoes.

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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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- Engage
- 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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Aimee Halvorson Comer

Laboratory Specialist I

Email: [[aimeehal]]
Phone: (804) 684-7751
Office: Nunnally Hall 138
Section: Natural Resources

Selected Publications

Halvorson, A.D. 2009. First records of Hypleurochilus geminatus and Centropristis philadelphica from Chesapeake Bay. Virginia Journal of Science 60(3):141-147.

Halvorson, A.D. 2007. Recent additions of warmwater fish species to Chesapeake Bay. Northeastern Naturalist 14(4):651-656. http://dx.doi.org/10.1656/1092-6194(2007)14[651:RAOWFS]2.0.CO;2

Gartland, J., R.J. Latour, A.D. Halvorson, and H.M. Austin. 2006. Diet composition of young-of-the-year bluefish in the lower Chesapeake Bay and the coastal ocean of Virginia. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 135:371-378. http://dx.doi.org/10.1577/T05-033.1