Our lab is happy to welcome Dr. Tony Timpano in his new role as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. Tony’s PhD research focused on characterizing community structural response to increasing salinity and determining the optimal method by which to quantify salinity for the purposes of modeling that response. Tony pursued his…
Congratulations to Tony Timpano for successfully defending his PhD dissertation in August 2017! Tony’s research focuses on characterizing community structural response to increasing salinity and determining the optimal method by which to quantify salinity for the purposes of modeling that response. His dissertation title is “Toward improved assessment of freshwater…
The 2017 Karen P. DePauw Outstanding Interdisciplinary Presentation Award was presented to Tony Timpano at the Interfaces of Global Change (IGC) Graduate Research Symposium. Tony spoke on the effects of coal mining on freshwater salinization and aquatic insect diversity. This years’ annual symposium was held on April 21, 2017 and…
On April 12, 2017, Kriddie Whitmore was awarded the H. E. Burkhart Outstanding Masters Student Award for the Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation. This award honors years of dedicated graduate student research and mentoring by Dr. Harold E. Burkhart in the Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation….
The American Society of Mining and Reclamation hosted the 2017 Joint Conference with the Mine Drainage Task Force, the American Society of Mining and Reclamation, and the Appalachian Regional Reforestation Initiative in Morgantown, WV on April 9-13, 2017 (click here for conference link). Stephen Schoenholtz, who leads the Forest Hydrology…
Congratulations to Kriddie Whitmore for successfully defending her master’s thesis in December 2016! Her thesis title is “Selenium in Headwater Streams: Evaluating Enrichment and Bioaccumulation in Streams of the Central Appalachian Coalfields”
Robert (Trip) Krenz, Assistant Professor at Western Carolina University and a former doctoral student in the Virginia Tech Forest Hydrology and Soils Lab, has published a paper in Ecological Engineering. The paper discusses results from a portion of his dissertation research, which focused on assessing structure and ecological functions of constructed…
