The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency awarded $2.4 million to projects that will help protect, manage and restore wetlands in the mid-Atlantic region, including a $224,491 grant to the Virginia Institute of Marine Science. The VIMS grant is for its project, “Resilient Wetlands: Science to Enhance Understanding and Support Decision Making.” This project will develop strategies to improve VIMS’s understanding and strengthen the sustainability of Virginia’s coastal wetlands to climate change impacts and human decision making. Outputs of the project will include an updated Quality Assurance Project Plan, a living shoreline monitoring data dashboard, conference presentations of results, literature review on wetland loss associated with dam removal and new data layers incorporated into WetCAT. Awarded every two years, Wetland Program Development Grants are used to build and refine comprehensive wetland programs with priority given to funding projects that address monitoring and assessment...