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- - Virginia Tech launches the Center for Coastal Studies to address complex issues in the coastal zone
    The new center, housed under the Fralin Life Sciences Institute, will engage with a diverse set of stakeholders, create a safe space for difficult conversations with the public around coastal-zone issues, and establish a Coastal Zone Observatory.
- - VDGIF executive director is College of Natural Resources and Environment’s inaugural visiting executive
    The college welcomed Ryan Brown as its inaugural visiting executive under an initiative that seeks to bring professionals to campus to share their knowledge and experience with students and staff.
- - Helping coastal communities face the challenges posed by flooding and sea level rise
    Assistant Professor Anamaria Bukvic is using a fellowship from the National Center for Atmospheric Research to examine the issue of population mobility in the face of coastal vulnerability.
- - College of Natural Resources and Environment welcomes eight new faculty members
    New faculty members have joined each of the college’s four departments: fish and wildlife conservation, forest resources and environmental conservation, geography, and sustainable biomaterials.
- - Students scale new heights during Rocky Mountain field course
    Seven meteorology students traveled to Colorado to learn about weather systems and meteorology while negotiating the challenges of high altitudes and rapidly changing weather conditions.
- - Coastal@VT researchers lead Kids’ Tech University session about sea level rise
    The Kids' Tech University program is different from other kids' programs because it puts real researchers in front of children to give exciting interactive sessions based on those famous "why" questions that have always intrigued children.
- - Class of 2019: Geography major Neil Schubel charts a path around the world
    Schubel’s quest for cultural awareness and desire to experience different physical environments and worldviews firsthand have defined his time at Virginia Tech.
- - Internships help ready the next generation of U.S. Air Force weather officers
    Alumni from Virginia Tech filled more U.S. Air Force weather officer positions than any other university in the country this year.
- - Meteorology faculty and students anchor weather stations on highest peaks in Virginia and West Virginia
    There are currently eight weather stations that translate data directly to a central website.
- - Class of 2018: Molly McKnight uses GIS to show data in 3D
    McKnight is using geographic information systems to help give a clearer sense of the impact that solar farms and other energy projects would have on a landscape.
- - Keith Goyne named associate dean of College of Natural Resources and Environment
    Goyne is currently associate director and professor of soil and environmental sciences at the University of Missouri School of Natural Resources.
- - 2018 Summit of the Virginia Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine: Securing Prosperity in the Coastal Zone
    At the request of the Virginia Academy of Science Engineering, and Medicine, Virginia Tech researchers Robert Weiss and Jennifer Irish of the Coastal@VT initiative led the organizing committee for the 2018 VASEM Summit.
- - New position to equip College of Natural Resources and Environment students for career success
    Ken Morgan of Morgan Lumber Company is funding a new director of employer relations position in the college.