GCC Affiliate Wendy Parker Co-authors Recent IPCC Sixth Assessment Report |
[Image: Changing by the artist Alisa Singer]
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Welcome New GCC Staff Member, Lara Hopkins! |
We’d like to welcome Lara Hopkins as she joins the Global Change Center administrative team this month! Lara will work part-time through the fall semester as Global Change Center Program Coordinator, Jess Zielske, prepares to welcome a new addition to her family in September.
Welcome aboard, Lara!
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IGC GSO Transitions to New Officers for 2021-2022 |
As we welcome in the newest officers of the IGC GSO, we also want to take a moment to thank all the officers who are finishing up their term. The IGC GSO exists to benefit the IGC community as a whole through student contributions to infrastructural, educational, and social investments and activities. Thank you, 2020-2021 officers, for all your contributions this past year.
Congratulations to our newest officers!
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Call for Students Interested in the Interfaces of Global Change IGEP: Sign Up by September 15th |
Details about the upcoming IGC Information Sessions will be sent out to the listserv of prospective applicants so make sure you’ve contacted GCC staff! More information about application requirements can be found on our website.
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GCC Undergraduate Research Grant: Call for Proposals |
The GCC is now accepting proposals from undergraduate students and their GCC-affiliated faculty mentor(s) to support undergraduate research that will advance the mission of the GCC. Previous recipients of the grant Omar West, Ash VanWinkle, and Tess Alexander (pictured above, left to right) were recently featured in a GCC news article.
The application deadline is October 1, 2021.
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Course of Interest: Grant Writing for the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) |
GCC Affiliate and Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences Meryl Mims is offering a 1-credit course this fall to help eligible undergraduates and first- and second-year graduate students apply for the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). Students will learn to communicate their ideas in a short-format proposal and will benefit from advice, mentorship, and feedback from peer-review and interactions with senior graduate students, postdocs, and faculty.
See course syllabus here.
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Course of Interest: Remote Sensing in the Social Sciences |
GCC Affiliate and Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics Elinor Benami is offering a course that will review how recent advances in satellite remote sensing and geocomputation have been applied to address problems in the social sciences, with a focus on agriculture, the environment, and economic development.
Interested students should contact Elinor directly at elinor@vt.edu.
See course syllabus here.
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Job Posting: Rural Health Research Faculty |
Job posting can be found here.
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Austin Gray Awarded the 2021 SETAC Eugene Kenaga Membership Award |
GCC Affiliate and Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences Austin Gray recently received the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) Eugene Kenaga Membership Award! This annual award is presented to a SETAC member who has contributed to membership growth, provided leadership for members, or helped improve membership services through activities such as professional training courses and workshops, committee representation, and annual meeting support. As Co-Chair and Co-founder of the SETAC North America Inclusive Diversity Committee since 2018 and recipient of the 2020 Future Faculty Diversity Program, Austin is dedicated towards serving the scientific community through his research and advocacy.
For more information about Austin's research, visit his website here.
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Courses of Interest for Fall 2021 |
Scientific Analysis in the Molecular Life Sciences
Course description:
Practice in scientific data analysis, critical evaluation of results, data presentation, writing and peer-review with examples from contemporary molecular life sciences.
See course syllabus here.
The Science of COVID-19 (Pathways 4: all majors welcome!)
Course description:
Come learn about the disease from faculty experts from across campus!
Instructor: GCC Affiliate Ignacio Moore (COS) and multiple GCC Affiliates as Guest Lecturers!.
See course announcement here.
Special Study: COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2)
Course description:
This course will take a multidisciplinary approach to discussing the COVID-19 pandemic.
See course syllabus here.
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Remote Sensing of Human-Water Systems
Date/Time: Friday, 8/20/21 from 1:00-2:00PM EST
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Science Communication, Marketing and Branding Seminar |
Affiliated faculty members of the Fralin Life Sciences Institute are invited to attend the online this seminar on August 25 from 11:00 am to 12:15 pm. Topics will include how to create press releases, use social media, adhere to Virginia Tech's branding guidelines, and more.
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Small Fossils Offer Big Results for GCC Affiliate Shuhai Xiao
Professor of Geobiology in the Department of Geosciences Shuhai Xiao was recently featured in an article highlighting his research and academic recognitions. Earlier this year, Shuhai won the prestigious Mary Clark Thompson Medal awarded by the National Academy of Sciences for work in geology and paleontology. Shuhai was honored for studying the evolution of life before the “Cambrian Explosion,” the period when complex life forms arose and radiated across the planet. Learn more about the Xiao Research Group here.
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GCC Affiliate Ashley Dayer Shares the Importance of Shared Data
Ashley Dayer, Assistant Professor in the Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation in the College of Natural Resources and the Environment and an affiliate of the Global Change Center, was featured in a recent article highlighting The University Libraries new version of its research data repository platform, powered by Figshare. Accessible from anywhere, Figshare is a cloud-based platform for storing, sharing, and citing research data. Virginia Tech researchers can upload their research data and receive a digital object identifier (DOI) for citing the data in publications and meet sponsor requirements for openly available data.
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GCC Affiliates and IGC Alumnus Fellow Ernie Osburn Study the Effects of Drought on Soil Microbial Communities.
In a new study, GCC Affiliates Drs. Jeb Barrett, Brian Badgley, and Frank Aylward and IGC Fellow Alumnus Dr. Ernie Osburn assess historical land use influences on microbial drought responses. Prior studies have investigated effects of drought on soil microbial communities, yet, few studies have assessed soil microbial responses to drought in combination with other environmental change drivers. This research shows that legacies of past land use change influence soil microbial responses to intensifying droughts, which, in turn, will influence the future ecosystem-scale functioning of terrestrial environments.
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