The fiscal year 2021 Water Resources Research Act Program request for applications was released late last week. It includes three grant programs: National Competitive Grants (104g) – Funding Opportunity Number (FON) G21AS00518 Aquatic Invasive Species Competitive Grants – Funding Opportunity Number (FON) G21AS00520. These grants are only for work taking place…
The Virginia Water Center would like to welcome our new Statewide Advisory Board members! Our new members are: Patrick Calvert – Senior Policy and Campaigns Manager, Virginia Conservation Network Lazaro Gonzalez – Director of EHS and Facilities Operations, Micron Technology Dr. Edwin Martinez Martinez – State Conservationist, USDA Natural Resources…
The Virginia Water Center welcomes Aaron Price as our new intern! Aaron is a Crop and Soil Environmental Science major, and is planning to use his internship to work on better understanding the science of riparian buffers and sharing that information with land managers. From Aaron: “I am a transfer…
Save the date: Virginia Water Monitoring Council 2021 Conference will be on Thursday, September 30, 2021. Hybrid event planned: Participate either on-line or in-person* Henrico County Training Center, 7701 East Parham Road, Henrico, VA 23228 More information will be provided closer to the event via the Council’s weekly announcements and…
We would like to welcome Abby Spotswood as our new Water Center intern! Abby is a junior, majoring in Environmental Resource Management. She has a strong passion for environmental stewardship, protection, and conservation. She is pursuing a career in environmental consulting. Abby will be working to complete a semester long…
Water Center faculty Stephen Schoenholtz and Daniel McLaughlin are part of a team that received a seed grant from the Global Change Center(GCC)! The project is titled “Salty carbon: Testing the consequences of freshwater salinization on stream food web dynamics and ecosystem metabolism.” The investigators also include Dr. Erin Hotchkiss (Biological Sciences) and Dr….
The Virginia Water Center’s Luke Juran was featured in the Virginia Tech Daily News today in an article titled “The human dimensions of water.” The article, written by David Fleming, discusses Juran’s research in India, his work with undergraduate researchers at Virginia Tech, and water science kits for students. Excerpt below: “For Associate Professor Luke…
Congratulations to the Water Center’s Dr. Daniel McLaughlin! Dr. McLaughlin is coauthor on a journal article that received the 2020 Boggess Award for best paper published in the Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA). The paper, titled “Modeling Connectivity of Non‐floodplain Wetlands: Insights, Approaches, and Recommendations,” examines modeling approaches…
Congratulations to Carla López Lloreda, who is the 2020 William R. Walker Graduate Research Fellow! Carla is a first-year master’s student from Puerto Rico in the Virginia Tech Department of Biological Sciences working with Dr. Erin Hotchkiss. She completed her undergraduate degree in Environmental Sciences at the University of Puerto…
Ross Cooper has completed his internship with the Virginia Water Center! For his internship, Ross examined the relationship between Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) and socioeconomic factors in the James River watershed. His work found that wealthier localities tend to have more TMDLs than poorer counties. Similarly, the study also…
