The GCC WEEKLY | 12 April 2022

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Job Posting: 2 Openings for Biological Scientists with USDA APHIS


The Biological Scientist for the Biotechnology Risk Analysis Programs (BRAP) of USDA APHIS: Biotechnology Regulatory Services is responsible for providing authoritative expertise in diverse areas of biotechnology and the biological sciences, and serves as a source of information on a variety of biotechnology matters related to plant ecology, molecular ecology, plant science, weed science and ecology, forestry, horticulture, silviculture, and agro-ecology.


Contact IGC Alumni Becky Fletcher with any questions!

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Sarah Kuchinsky

Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology

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Passionate about the concept of One Health, Sarah seeks to combine wildlife research with traditional veterinary medicine by pursuing a veterinary science, PhD/DVM dual degree program. Her research at Virginia Tech seeks to understand the pathogenesis, transmissibility, and disease dynamics of Usutu Virus, a close phylogenetic and ecological relative of West Nile Virus.


Sarah is honored with the 2022 Outstanding Doctoral Degree Student Award from the VT Graduate School for the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine.


Congratulations Sarah!

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LECTURES & SEMINARS



Managing landscapes to reduce the triple Anthropocene threat

STEP Keynote Seminar


Claire Kremen

University of British Columbia


Tuesday April 12

4:00-5:30 PM EDT


Register for Zoom link here

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Science, Policy and Management of Biological Invasions Discussion Group


Vanessa Lopez

Invasive Plants National Program Manager, USDA


Wednesday April 13

10:00-11:30 AM EDT


Full Schedule and more info here

Zoom link here

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Urban pests, pesticides, and emerging contaminants

ENTO Seminar Series


Zach DeVries

University of Kentucky


Thursday April 14

3:00-4:00 PM EDT


220 Price Hall

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How different are bats from non-bats? Insights from the age of genomes

EEB Seminar Series


Liliana Dávalos

Stony Brook University


Thursday April 14

3:30-4:30 PM EDT


Contact Kate Langwig to join

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"Managing Landscapes to Reduce the Triple Anthropocene Threat"


by Dr. Claire Kremen

Professor and President's Excellence Chair in Biodiversity, University of British Columbia


Biodiversity loss, climate change, and unsustainable extraction from land and sea constitute the triple Anthropocene threat. How can we manage landscapes to reduce these threats? Professor Kremen will discuss the “working lands conservation” concept and develop several examples to show how these regenerative techniques both support and depend on biodiversity, while promoting climate mitigation and adaptation. Professor Kremen will discuss one promising pathway to broader uptake, and what working lands conservation could look like from regional to global scales, within the context of current agricultural and environmental policies.


Tuesday April 12, 4:00-5:30 PM EDT

Register in advance here



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"Seed Money: Monsanto's Past and Our Food Future"


The VT Food Studies Program invites you to join for a discussion with Dr. Bart Elmore (Ohio State) about his new book Seed Money: Monsanto's Past and Our Food Future. The book is an authoritative and eye-opening history that examines how Monsanto came to have outsized influence over our food system. Incorporating global fieldwork, interviews with company employees, and untapped corporate and government records, Elmore traces Monsanto’s astounding evolution from a scrappy chemical startup to a global agribusiness powerhouse. Monsanto used seed money derived from toxic products—including PCBs and Agent Orange—to build an agricultural empire, promising endless bounty through its genetically engineered technology.


Monday April 18, 5:00 - 6:00 PM EDT

Register for the virtual talk here



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The City Nature Challenge is an annual four-day global bioblitz at the end of April, where cities are in a collaboration-meets-friendly-competition to see not only what can be accomplished when we all work toward a common goal, but also which city can gather the most observations of nature, find the most species, and engage the most people in the event.

Check out the 2021 results for Blacksburg VA here - can you help top the observations for this year?!


April 29-May 8

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Natural resources management has become more challenging as the degree of polarization in national politics has increased. Join Professor Marc Stern of the Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation for a practical discussion of how lessons from social science research can help bridge these challenges and build more collaborative approaches



Thursday April 21, 12:00-1:15 PM ET

Register Here
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GCC Affiliate Landon Marston on "Water Use in a Changing World"


In a recent article published in the journal Nature Climate Change Landon Marston, assistant professor in VT's Civil and Environmental Engineering department, shares analysis of new research reported in Earth's Future about water consumption in the United States.


"Arriving at accurate predictions of future water use, even in the short term, is difficult as it requires foresight on how drivers of water use (for example, population size, irrigated area and electricity production) and water-use intensity (for example, m³ per capita, m³ per ha and m³ per kWh) will evolve. Projections of future water demand often under-appreciate the role of water conservation measures, economic shifts and other changes in human behaviour, thus leading to inaccurate projections of future water use that can lead to poor policy and misguided infrastructure investments. The study by Warziniack and colleagues is unique in that it explores national water-use projections across multiple sectors under a range of potential socioeconomic and climate futures. Various plausible climatic scenarios and socioeconomic pathways are combined to provide a range of potential water-use futures."

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