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Biodiversity, fishing, and the environment: thinking globally to protect our oceans , articleResearchers estimate that 90 percent of the ocean’s biodiversity could be preserved by strategically protecting just 21 percent of the ocean, and that protecting high-priority areas would have significant ramifications for critically endangered ocean species.
Date: Mar 17, 2021 -
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Virginia Tech freshwater scientist Cayelan Carey selected for 2021 cohort in Earth Leadership Program , articleCarey, an associate professor of biological sciences in the Virginia Tech College of Science and an affiliated faculty member at the Fralin Life Sciences Institute and the Global Change Center, is one of 21 academics who have been handpicked for the 2021-22 North American cohort.
Date: Mar 05, 2021 -
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Virginia Tech researcher highlights infectious diseases and social distancing in nature , articleIn a new review published in Science, Dana Hawley, a professor of biological sciences in the Virginia Tech College of Science, and a team of scientists have highlighted some non-human species that have intuitively practiced social distancing when one of their own became sick - long before humans learned about and started “social distancing due to COVID-19."
Date: Mar 04, 2021 -
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What can stream quality tell us about quality of life? , articleResearchers are using stream quality data to find new insights into the interactions between the health of our natural spaces and human well-being.
Date: Mar 04, 2021 -
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Coffee for the birds: connecting bird-watchers with shade-grown coffee , articleResearchers from Virginia Tech, Cornell University, and Columbia University examined ways to improve awareness of coffee grown in a way that protects bird habitat.
Date: Mar 02, 2021 -
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Songbirds exposed to lead-contaminated water show telltale signs about human impacts , articleKendra Sewall, an associate professor of biological sciences in the College of Science, and a diverse team of scientists and students have found that lead levels like those reported in Flint, Michigan, can interfere with the vocal development of songbirds and affect mate attraction.
Date: Feb 03, 2021 -
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Q&A: Vaccine basics, their history, importance, and role in COVID-19 , articleKate Langwig, a quantitative disease ecologist and an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Virginia Tech, breaks down the basics about vaccines, how they work, and how they have protected humans from lethal diseases for decades.
Date: Feb 01, 2021 -
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Virginia Tech researchers discover 635 million-year-old fungi-like microfossil that bailed us out of an ice age , articleA team of scientists from Virginia Tech, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guizhou Education University, and University of Cincinnati has discovered the remains of a fungi-like microfossil that emerged at the end of an ice age some 635 million years ago.
Date: Jan 28, 2021 -
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New fossil provides clarity to the history of Alligatoridae , articleA new fossil has been identified by Michelle Stocker, of the Department of Geosciences in the College of Science, which will provide some much needed clarity into the complex, and incomplete, history of caimans and their movements across time and space.
Date: Jan 15, 2021 -
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William Hopkins receives Virginia’s highest faculty honor , articleHopkins, professor of wildlife in the College of Natural Resources, has been selected to receive a 2021 Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education and Dominion Power.
Date: Dec 11, 2020 -
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Low oxygen levels in lakes and reservoirs may accelerate global change , articleIn a first of its kind study, researchers at Virginia Tech have experimentally tested, at the whole ecosystem-scale, how different oxygen levels in lakes and reservoirs affect the concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and contribute to global change.
Date: Dec 09, 2020 -
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Virginia Tech paleontologists find pterosaur precursors that fill a gap in early evolutionary history , articleWith the help of newly discovered skulls and skeletons that were unearthed in North America, Brazil, Argentina, and Madagascar, Virginia Tech researchers Sterling Nesbitt and Michelle Stocker from the Department of Geosciences have demonstrated that a group of "dinosaur precursors," called lagerpetids, are the closest relatives of pterosaurs.
Date: Dec 09, 2020 -
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Confronting ecological change takes a collaborative leap with the NEON Ecological Forecasting Challenge , articleThe NEON Ecological Forecasting Challenge enters its first year seeking to mobilize researchers and forecast answers to a complex set of ecological questions.
Date: Dec 01, 2020 -
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Warmer mountaintops, wetter coasts , articleLynn Resler and Anamaria Bukvic investigate how climate change affects two vastly different ecosystems.
Date: Nov 20, 2020 -
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Lurking in genomic shadows: How giant viruses fuel the evolution of algae , articleViruses are tiny invaders that cause a wide range of diseases, from rabies to tomato spotted wilt virus and, most recently, COVID-19 in humans. But viruses can do more than elicit sickness — and not all viruses are tiny.
Date: Nov 18, 2020 -
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Virtual but still interactive: Kids' Tech University returns to Virginia Tech , articleIn a normal year, the program creates a "university feel" by including children in an interactive STEM sessions in a university classroom. But this year, the program will be hosted through Zoom and will mail packets of materials for hands-on activities.
Date: Oct 22, 2020 -
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Geoscience’s Ben Gill seeks answer to how the planet changed during Triassic mass-extinction event 200 million years ago , articleGill, a geoscientist within the College of Science, will seek the answer or answers to what caused the Triassic mass-extinction event — one of the largest extinction events in the history of our planet — 200 million years ago.
Date: Oct 19, 2020 -
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Study: Land development and climate change threaten clear water lakes, but there is hope for protecting them , articleA recent study from the Virginia Tech Department of Biological Sciences shows that the negative effects from climate change on clear water lakes can be mitigated by limiting nutrient pollution from land development in clear-water lakes.
Date: Oct 14, 2020 -
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Walking a fine line: How chemical diversity in plants facilitates plant-animal interactions , articleChemical ecologists at the Whitehead Lab at Virginia Tech are working to uncover why plants have such diverse chemicals and to determine the functions of these chemicals in plant-microbe and plant-animal interactions.
Date: Sep 09, 2020 -
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A trans-Atlantic journey: how microbes and dust travel from Africa to the Americas , articleA team led by Virginia Tech researchers in collaboration with the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of La Laguna in the Canary Islands received a $1.1 million grant from NASA to study microbial diversity in dust plumes and the physics behind the transport of dust and microbes along superhighways in the sky.
Date: Sep 01, 2020
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