Cathy Jachowski investigates the effects of environmental disturbance on hellbender populations. Her research* was recently featured in this Virginia Tech video.

*Hellbender research in the Hopkins Lab is the result of a partnership with the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, funded through the State Wildlife Grants Program.

The Fledge mentoring program in the Hopkins Lab allows talented undergraduate students to experience in-depth research by pairing them with a current graduate student. This partnership provides the graduate students with an opportunity to hone their teaching skills. Associate Professor Bill Hopkins created the program in order to better prepare students at both levels for the next step in their educational or professional careers.

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

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 ...