Beth Meyer

Currently Meyer is on research leave and focused on the launch of UVA’s Morven Sustainability Lab (MSL), a place-based, pan-university teaching and research endeavor located on 2900 acres of rural Piedmont land located ten miles from the UVA Grounds.  MSL’s mission is three-fold: to support future-oriented teaching and research that recognize the complexities of the climate crisis will require new narratives, policies, ethics  and practices; to afford our students—the generation that will need to imagine, co-create and implement these changes—meaningful nature-connection experiences impactful enough to bolster their personal well-being and to alter their sense of care and belonging to our home, the Virginia Piedmont and the planet Earth; and to recognize that Morven’s ecological benefits and aesthetic beauty, its fecundity and value, was co-curated, cared for and maintained by the Indigenous people including the Monacan Nation and its ancestors that inhabited this region for 10,000 years and the enslaved people who lived and worked at Dick’s Plantation/Indian Camp/Morven from 1730-1865.