Sarah Durant was named the 2011 Outstanding Ph.D. student in the Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation. Well done, Sarah!
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MAR
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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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NOV
2010
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2010
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 ...
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NOV
2010
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2010
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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AUG
2010
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2010
MOTHERS’ INFLUENCE ON YOUNG WILDLIFE MORE THAN GENETIC
By Cody Trotter and Lynn Davis, College of Natural Resources
Few relationships in life are closer or more important than those between a mother and her offspring. In many wildlife species, mothers raise and nurture their young until they are independent, teaching valuable life lessons along the way. In addition, mothers influence their young based on the habitats they select for nesting, the types of food ...
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2009
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2009