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- - Scientists using collaborative NSF grant to understand hydrologic controls on carbon processes in wetlands
    Scientists will research the links between hydrological and carbon dynamics taking place in forested wetlands to better understand the role that these ecosystems play in the export, storage, and emission of carbon.
- - Using data to predict the future of ecosystems
    Quinn Thomas is a quantitative ecosystem ecologist who focuses on understanding how forests and other ecosystems will respond to global environmental change.
- - Researchers collaborate to address water and health issues in rural China and Appalachia
    Earlier this month, the first-ever Water & Health in Rural China & Appalachia Conference kicked off at Virginia Tech on the Blacksburg campus. This event also marked the formal inclusion of Virginia Tech in a collaborative research program with researchers from UC Berkeley and China.
- - Happy Halloween: Meet the Batmen and Batwomen of Virginia Tech
    While bats are often portrayed as scary in myths and folklore, especially around Halloween, they play a critical role as insect regulators and pollinators. At Virginia Tech, assistant professors Kate Langwig and Joe Hoyt focus their research on endangered bats and the proliferation of the fungal disease white nose syndrome.
- - Virginia Tech researchers follow in Darwin’s footsteps: understanding the plant evolution of florist’s gloxinia
    In a new study, a team led by Virginia Tech researchers discovered that in its 200 years of being cultivated and domesticated, florist’s gloxinia, Sinningia speciosa, has reached tremendous levels of physical variation and originates from a single founder population.
- - The Global Change Center sponsors ‘Hidden Rivers’ film at the Lyric Theatre
    “Hidden Rivers,” a film 10 years in the making, explores the rivers and streams of the Southern Appalachian region, which are home to North America’s most biologically rich waters. The film follows conservation biologists and explorers as they find ways to protect the beautiful and delicate life within our rivers, streams, and lakes.
- - Using data to protect the lakes we love
    Kelly Cobourn has been exploring the ecological impact of humans on lakes, as well as how these bodies of water can impact people, with a goal of producing a new model for use in protecting and maintaining lakes.
- - Professors take part in journal’s test for peer review bias in major international study
    Editors of the journal Functional Ecology are testing to see the hidden biases in scientific peer review.
- - Geosciences’ Shuhai Xiao finds fossils dating back 550 million years, among earliest known displays of animal mobility
    In a remarkable evolutionary discovery, a team of scientists co-led by a Virginia Tech geoscientist has discovered what could be among the first trails made by animals on the surface of the Earth roughly a half-billion years ago.
- - Researchers receive NSF grant to create Ecological Forecasting Research Coordination Network
    A group of researchers, led by Quinn Thomas, associate professor in the Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation in the College of Natural Resources and Environment at Virginia Tech, received a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to tackle environmental challenges with the creation of a new network.
- - Search committee for Fralin Life Sciences Institute director announced
    Stefan Duma, executive director of Virginia Tech’s Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science, will chair the search committee.
- - When invasive plants take root, native animals pay the price
    A Virginia Tech research team has discovered that native animals are diminishing as invasive plants gain a foothold in their habitats. Their study, which took place over a two-year period, is published in the journal Global Change Biology.
- - 'Leaving no stone unturned' at the Ninth Eastern Hellbender Symposium
    The hellbender is one of the largest salamanders in North America and the third largest salamander in the world after the closely related Chinese and Japanese giant salamanders.
- - Researchers publish new study on citrus greening disease
    A new study published by researchers at Virginia Tech with a team of international researchers in Journal of Applied Ecology investigates the thermal suitability for transmission of citrus greening disease with implications for surveillance and prevention.
- - Researchers find that probiotic bacteria reduces the impact of white-nose syndrome in bats
    It is widely accepted that probiotic bacteria are beneficial to human health, but what if they could also be used to reduce wildlife disease and conserve biodiversity? Researchers from Virginia Tech and UC Santa Cruz did just that. The findings were published recently in Scientific Reports.
- - Twenty students awarded Fralin Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships
    The SURF program is designed to give students hands-on research experiences during a 10-week curriculum that mimics graduate training.
- - Virginia Tech researchers discover connection between symbiotic worms and the magnetic orientation of crayfish
    Researchers have found that ectosymbionts – species that live on the outside of the host’s body and have mutually beneficial relationships with their hosts – affect a crayfish’s use of the earth’s magnetic field as a directional reference.
- - Biological Sciences’ Frank Aylward awarded Simons Foundation grant to study evolution of oceans
    The three-year, $540,000 grant will help Aylward to understand evolutionary trends in prokaryotes and the roles they play in carbon and nitrogen cycling, and other biogeochemical processes that are vital to the Earth’s climate.
- - Island lizards are expert sunbathers, and it’s slowing their evolution
    According to a new study by Assistant Professor Martha Muñoz at Virginia Tech and Jhan Salazar at Universidad Icesi, physiological evolution in Anolis lizards is actually much slower on islands than on the mainland.
- - Deirdre Conroy named 2019 Outstanding Senior for the College of Natural Resources and Environment
    The wildlife conservation major has been involved in research projects that have taken her from the forests of Virginia to the jungles of Belize.

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