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Agricultural Experiment Station (AES)
UVI Student Workers Graft Mango Trees
UVI's St. Croix Hair Sheep Flock
Sweet Potato Harvest
UVI Student Worker Kalunda Cuffey Plants Frangipani
The Agricultural Experiment Station (AES) is located on the St. Croix Campus of the University of the Virgin Islands. AES is part of the Research and Public Service Component. The U.S. Virgin Islands are semiarid, subtropical islands in the Lesser Antilles. The islands are marked by easterly trade winds which provide a nearly constant breeze and alternating periods of drought and heavy rain. A long tradition of agriculture in St. Croix provides an ideal location for our research mission.
Agriculture Experiment Station Annual Reports
Please click the cover photo to download the report.
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Summer Internship 2018 - University of Guam
The Agricultural Experiment Station has funding to support one UVI student to attend a summer internship at the University of Guam (June 10 - 24). The student should be interested in pursuing a career in agriculture, food sciences, environment and natural resources, or biology-related sciences, but this is not required.
Application deadline is April 16, 2018. Interested students should be nominated by a faculty member and the student should send a letter of interest and explain how this opportunity would benefit their academic career to Dr. Bob Godfrey. The full announcement is available at the link below.
Click to Download the Guam Internship Recruitment Information
Programs and Personnel
| Research Areas | Leader | Telephone | Email address |
| Agroforestry | Michael Morgan | (340) 692-4078 | mmorgan@uvi.edu |
| Agronomy | Stuart Weiss | (340) 692-4044 | sweiss@uvi.edu |
| Animal Science | Bob Godfrey | (340) 692-4042 | rgodfre@uvi.edu |
| Aquaculture | Donald Bailey | (340) 692-4038 | dbailey@uvi.edu |
| Biotechnology | Tom Zimmerman | (340) 692-4074 | tzimmer@uvi.edu |
| Horticulture | (340) 692-4086 | ||
| AES Administration | |||
| Director | Bob Godfrey | (340) 692-4042 | rgodfre@uvi.edu |
| Assistant Director | Tom Zimmerman | (340) 692-4074 | tzimmer@uvi.edu |
| Trades Leader | Angel Gonzalez | (340) 692-4020 | |
| Administrative Specialist | (340) 692-4020 | ||
| Administrative Specialist | Fiola Alexander | (340) 692-4041 | falexan@live.uvi.edu |
| Fax number for all programs | (340) 692-4035 | ||
OUR MISSION
AES conducts basic and applied research to meet the needs of the local agricultural community in increasing production, improving efficiency, developing new enterprises, preserving and propagating germplasm unique to the Virgin Islands, and protecting the natural resource base. AES has research programs in animal science aquaculture, biotechnology, forage agronomy, fruit and ornamental crops and vegetable crops.
OUR VISION
Our vision is to generate information by conducting scientific research that leads to improved agricultural practices in the Virgin Islands and the Car!bean Region. Our research programs will be increasingly influenced by the needs of the public and the farming community and by research conducted by other agricultural research institutions Using new technologies, the results of our research will be disseminated more widely to farmers and the international scientific community.
RESULTS
Our results are disseminated to the local and regional agricultural community, scientists and the public through peer-reviewed scientific journals, conference presentations and proceedings, seminars, workshops, technical and farmers bulletins, popular media and the Cooperative Extension Service. Examples of research results can be found on the individual program sites using the links above.
TO CONTACT US
University of the Virgin Islands
Agricultural Experiment Station
RR 1, Box 10,000
Kingshill, VI 00850
Telephone: (340) 692-4020 Fax: (340) 692-4035