Virginia Sea Grant facilitates research, educational, and outreach activities promoting sustainable management of marine resources. We are part of a larger network of Sea Grant programs housed in 32 colleges and universities around the country. That network — the National Sea Grant College Program — began in 1966 through a Congressional Act and is part of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, of the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Virginia Sea Grant is based at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science of the College of William & Mary, with partners at Virginia Tech, Old Dominion University, and the University of Virginia.

Learn more at http://www.vims.edu/seagrant