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…
With an eye toward the future of water, Stephen Schoenholtz, professor of forest hydrology and soils in the College of Natural Resources and Environment, has been named president-elect of the National Institutes for Water Resources and will serve as president starting Oct. 1, 2016. The National Institutes for Water Resources…
From VT News Story by Lindsay Key BLACKSBURG, Va., March 2, 2016 – Aquatic life can suffer when high concentrations of dissolved salts enter freshwater ecosystems, a process known as salinization. An international, multi-institutional team of researchers that includes a Virginia Tech graduate student recommends ways that humans can protect…
