ENTO
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Susan Fahrbach
, Wake Forest University - The effects of fipronil on honey bee brain development
Thursday, 4/4 at 3:00 pm
220 Price Hall
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EEB
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Diego Salazar
, Florida Internat'l University -
From metabolites to communities: exploring the role of plant chemistry at the local and regional scales
Thursday, 4/4 at 3:30 pm
4069 Derring Hall
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Federal Water Resources Agencies - Panel Discussion
Hear about what it's like to work for various federal water resources agencies. Panel members will talk about their work, career path, and their agency. All students, postdocs, and faculty with interest in freshwater science encouraged to attend...
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Thursday, 4/4 at 7:00 pm,
with meet-the-scientists reception 8:00 - 8:30 pm
2062 Derring
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FREC:
Carol Franco
, FREC Senior Research Associate, VT - Climate change adaptation and mitigation policy
Friday, 4/5 at 10:00 am,
refreshments at 9:30a
Fralin Auditorium
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GEOS
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Sarah Carmichael
, Appalachian State University - CSI Devonian: deciphering Late Devonian mass extinctions in different paleoenvironments
Friday, 4/5:
3:30 pm - GEOS Seminar
4069 Derring Hall
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CEE EWR
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Kevin McGuire
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FREC &
G
CC Faculty, VT
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Stream water age and implications for water quality prediction
Friday, 4/5 at 2:30 pm
261 Durham Hall
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FACULTY & FELLOW SPOTLIGHT
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Ashley Dayer - Fish and Wildlife Conservation
Dr. Dayer is a conservation social scientist. Her research program focuses on understanding people's and organizations' conservation behavior, especially related to private lands habitat conservation, human-wildlife conflict, endangered species...
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Congrats! Jonathan Doubek - IGC Alumni, Biological Sciences
Jon will be starting as an Assistant Professor of Freshwater Ecology at Lake Superior State University this fall 2020! Jon completed his Ph.D. studies in the Carey Lab at VT in May of 2018. He's been working as a postdoc in the Rubenstein School...
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Simulating the reintroduction of bull trout
VT NEWS | A multi-institutional team of researchers, led by GCC Faculty affiliate Meryl Mims, has assessed how environmental, demographic, and genetic factors play a role in the reintroduction of bull trout in Washington State. Their project is...
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Implications of backyard bird feeding for bird conservation
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VT NEWS | GCC Faculty Ashley Dayer and Dana Hawley study the observations and corresponding actions of people who feed birds.
People in many parts of the world feed birds in their backyards, often due to a desire to help wildlife or to connect with nature.
www.globalchange.vt.edu
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IGC Professional Development Series: Alternative Careers
BY IGC FELLOW, LAUREN MAYNARD | On March 8th, the IGC's Professional Development Series on Alternative Careers hosted Dr. Susan Cook-Patton, a forest restoration scientist with The Nature Conservancy.
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They Grew Up Around Fossil Fuels. Now, Their Jobs Are in ...
NY TIMES | Chris Riley comes from a coal town and a coal family, but he founded a company that could hasten coal's decline. Lee Van Horn, whose father worked underground in the mines, spends some days more than 300 feet in the air atop a wind turb...
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Amphibian 'apocalypse' caused by most destructive...
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC | For decades, a silent killer has slaughtered frogs and salamanders around the world by eating their skins alive. Now, a global team of 41 scientists has announced that the pathogen-which humans unwittingly spread around the...
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