The College of Natural Resources and Environment is sponsoring a study abroad trip to New Zealand’s South Island over winter break. The theme of the trip is “Sustaining Human Societies and the Natural Environment”, and students will receive 6 credits for their participation in the 3-week course. Field trips and…
Congratulations to Daniel DeBruler for successfully defending his M.S. thesis in August 2014! Daniel will soon be moving to Ohio, where he will be employed as an environmental scientist with MAD Scientist and Associates, an ecological and wetland consulting company in Columbus.
From Virginia Tech News BLACKSBURG, Va., June 5, 2014 – Water is the source of mounting pressures throughout the world. The prospect of water disputes increases as supplies become scarcer and more stressed. Some stressors, such as climate change, call for scientific understanding of the water cycle. In addition, sustainable…
Abstract: EFFECTS OF LONG-TERM SALINIZATION: A MULTI-YEAR STUDY OF INVERTEBRATE COMMUNITY STRUCTURE IN COAL MINE-INFLUENCED STREAMS Timpano, A. J., Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA, atimpano@vt.edu Schoenholtz, S. H., Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA, schoenhs@vt.edu Soucek, D. J., Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign, USA, soucek@illinois.edu Zipper, C. E., Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA, czip@vt.edu…
ABSTRACT: Detection of invertebrate community change in mine-influenced streams using quantitative sampling. Damion Drover1, Stephen Schoenholtz1, Carl Zipper1, Tony Timpano1, David Soucek2 1Virginia Tech; 2Illinois Natural History Survey Recent studies associating declines in biotic condition of streams with elevated dissolved solids from surface mining in the Central Appalachian coalfields have…
Congratulations to Andy Neal for completing his Masters degree at Virginia Tech in May 2014! Andy is now a Senior Environmental Field Sampler for an FDA Global Monitoring program with CSS-Dynamac, based out of Durham, North Carolina.
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