Listen to Dr. Bill Hopkins talk about hellbender ecology on Jim Metzner’s Pulse of the Planet radio show! This broadcast reaches hundreds of thousands of listeners, through more than 250 radio channels nationally (mostly NPR stations) and worldwide via arm forces radio.
Listen to his broadcasts about hellbenders in these 2-minute clips:
Hellbender Radio 1: Large Salamanders
Hellbender Radio 2: Bad Name, Good Sign
A new Virginia Tech University Relations video features Dr. Bill Hopkins, associate professor in the Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, along with a number of other VT researchers engaged in hands-on learning.
Read more about the faculty featured in this video here: http://www.unirel.vt.edu/audio_video/2013/10/universityvideo.html
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Published in General and Comparative Endocrinology…
Recent research conducted in the Hopkins Lab on eastern hellbender physiology makes the cover of General and Comparative Endocrinology!
Hopkins, W.A., DuRant, S.E. 2011. Innate immunity and stress physiology of eastern hellbenders (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis) from two stream reaches with differing habitat quality. General and Comparative Endocrinology 174:107-115.
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Here’s a new publication on wood duck embryonic energy expenditure that just made the cover of Physiological and Biochemical Zoology:
DuRant, S.E, Hopkins, W.A., and Hepp, G.R. 2011. Embryonic Developmental Patterns and Energy expenditure are Affected by Incubation Temperature in Wood Ducks (Aix sponsa). Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 84:451-457.
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Dr. Bill Hopkins was featured in a recent Virginia Tech advertising campaign. The ad below ran in a variety of outlets, including The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, The New York Times, The Blue Ridge Business Journal, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Business, Virginia Business, Washington Business Journal, and Newsweek.
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Sarah Durant successfully defended her dissertation “The influence of incubation temperature on avian offspring phenotype: Implications for the life history evolution, avian ecology and conservation”. Congratulations Dr. DuRant!!!
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Sarah Durant was named the 2011 Outstanding Ph.D. student in the Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation. Well done, Sarah!
Read More →Published online at Blue Legacy: Telling the Story of our Water Planet…
“Nearly two years after the TVA Kingston Coal Ash Spill, many have already forgotten its impacts on the community and the environment and yet the TVA coal ash spill is still the largest industrial spill in American history. It was six times larger in volume than the BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
In September 2010 Alexandra Cousteau and Expedition Blue Planet visited Kingston, Tennessee to find out ...
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Researchers from Virginia Tech’s College of Natural Resources and Environment have received a $3.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior to study the effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on piping plovers, shorebirds that have been listed as threatened since 1986.
Breeding populations of piping plovers exist in three distinct locations — the Atlantic Coast, the American and Canadian Great Plains, and the Great Lakes — but birds from ...
Read More →Sarah DuRant and Dr. Bill Hopkins were recently featured in Science Nation, an online magazine and NSF initiative focused on bringing science to the general population using dynamic and entertaining short films. The program featured the wood ducks project.
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