From the Appalachian Mountains to the Chesapeake Bay, the watersheds of the Virginias are all unique and understanding your watershed’s history can be key in being a part of its future. By Cassidy Quistorff Cianciolo Everyone lives in a watershed. Simply put, it’s the land that drains to a common…
Water Center faculty Stephen Schoenholtz and Daniel McLaughlin are part of a team that received a seed grant from the Global Change Center(GCC)! The project is titled “Salty carbon: Testing the consequences of freshwater salinization on stream food web dynamics and ecosystem metabolism.” The investigators also include Dr. Erin Hotchkiss (Biological Sciences) and Dr….
The Virginia Water Center’s Luke Juran was featured in the Virginia Tech Daily News today in an article titled “The human dimensions of water.” The article, written by David Fleming, discusses Juran’s research in India, his work with undergraduate researchers at Virginia Tech, and water science kits for students. Excerpt below: “For Associate Professor Luke…
Congratulations to the Water Center’s Dr. Daniel McLaughlin! Dr. McLaughlin is coauthor on a journal article that received the 2020 Boggess Award for best paper published in the Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA). The paper, titled “Modeling Connectivity of Non‐floodplain Wetlands: Insights, Approaches, and Recommendations,” examines modeling approaches…
Congratulations to Carla López Lloreda, who is the 2020 William R. Walker Graduate Research Fellow! Carla is a first-year master’s student from Puerto Rico in the Virginia Tech Department of Biological Sciences working with Dr. Erin Hotchkiss. She completed her undergraduate degree in Environmental Sciences at the University of Puerto…
Ross Cooper has completed his internship with the Virginia Water Center! For his internship, Ross examined the relationship between Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) and socioeconomic factors in the James River watershed. His work found that wealthier localities tend to have more TMDLs than poorer counties. Similarly, the study also…
The Virginia Water Center invites all Virginia college and university students to submit your photos featuring water in Virginia for our annual photo contest. Whether it’s the Cascades Falls, the Rappahannock River, Virginia Beach, or your favorite backyard stream, we want to see your most amazing water photos! For more…
Applications are now open for the Spring 2021 Water Center Internship! Each year the Water Center supports a Virginia Tech student (second-semester sophomore or above) for a semester-long, paid internship. The Water Center envisions the internship as an opportunity for a student to experience learning and work activities that will…
Nizhoni Tallas has completed her internship with the Virginia Water Center! Her internship project looked at the water issues facing tribal communities in Virginia. A complete write-up of her work can be found here: Water and Virginia Tribal Communities. Her work is also available as a brochure; contact Liz Sharp if you would like…
While access to plumbing and clean tap water is something most people don’t think twice about, it’s a daily struggle for members of many rural communities throughout the state. By Cassidy Quistorff Cianciolo For some people living in rural Appalachia, stopping by the dripping spring coming out of the roadside…
