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🐚🌊 Warming oceans & rising acidification could shrink mollusk habitats in the western Atlantic by 60%, according to GCC postdoctoral affiliate Dr. Claudia Nuñez-Penichet.
Her research highlights both the risks & the power of human action to protect marine life.
Her research highlights both the risks & the power of human action to protect marine life.
Warming climate could harm mollusk populations in the western Atlantic
The consequences of a warming climate are known to be dangerous for marine ecosystems, with environmental changes like ocean acidification and warming, disrupted nutrient supplies, and rising sea…
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November 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
🐚🌊 Warming oceans & rising acidification could shrink mollusk habitats in the western Atlantic by 60%, according to GCC postdoctoral affiliate Dr. Claudia Nuñez-Penichet.
Her research highlights both the risks & the power of human action to protect marine life.
Her research highlights both the risks & the power of human action to protect marine life.
🦎💧 GCC’s Dr. William Hopkins & Dr. Erin Hotchkiss are partnering with Virginia DWR to restore eastern hellbenders.
By giving eggs & juveniles a “head start” in captivity, they boost survival & support long-term recovery – while habitat restoration improves stream health.
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By giving eggs & juveniles a “head start” in captivity, they boost survival & support long-term recovery – while habitat restoration improves stream health.
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Saving a salamander may require human intervention
Virginia Tech researchers William Hopkins and Erin Hotchkiss and Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources biologists are rearing hellbender salamander eggs in captivity to help stabilize eastern…
news.vt.edu
November 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
🦎💧 GCC’s Dr. William Hopkins & Dr. Erin Hotchkiss are partnering with Virginia DWR to restore eastern hellbenders.
By giving eggs & juveniles a “head start” in captivity, they boost survival & support long-term recovery – while habitat restoration improves stream health.
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By giving eggs & juveniles a “head start” in captivity, they boost survival & support long-term recovery – while habitat restoration improves stream health.
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🌎💧 GCC faculty affiliates Drs. Quinn Thomas, Cayelan Carey & Ryan Calder are part of a team awarded a $1M NSF grant to link land & water forecasting.
Their system will predict reservoir water quality days to months ahead – incorporating wildfires, floods, or droughts.
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Their system will predict reservoir water quality days to months ahead – incorporating wildfires, floods, or droughts.
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Ecological forecasting research team crosses ecosystem boundaries
A $1 million, four-year National Science Foundation grant will help better understand how natural hazards impact the forest and soils that control the water quality that ends up in drinking water…
news.vt.edu
November 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
🌎💧 GCC faculty affiliates Drs. Quinn Thomas, Cayelan Carey & Ryan Calder are part of a team awarded a $1M NSF grant to link land & water forecasting.
Their system will predict reservoir water quality days to months ahead – incorporating wildfires, floods, or droughts.
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Their system will predict reservoir water quality days to months ahead – incorporating wildfires, floods, or droughts.
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🌊 After Hurricane Helene, GCC affiliate Dr. Jon Czuba and VT students are helping restore Cripple Creek in Ivanhoe, VA. Partnering with Trout Unlimited, they’re designing real-world streambank solutions that protect ecosystems and communities. 💧
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Senior design team works to restore Wythe County stream
Last year, flooding from Hurricane Helene damaged a section of Cripple Creek in Ivanhoe, Virginia. Students in Jon Czuba's Biological Systems Engineering class are working with stream specialists at…
news.vt.edu
October 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
🌊 After Hurricane Helene, GCC affiliate Dr. Jon Czuba and VT students are helping restore Cripple Creek in Ivanhoe, VA. Partnering with Trout Unlimited, they’re designing real-world streambank solutions that protect ecosystems and communities. 💧
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🏢💨 Buildings that protect occupants from germs?
GCC’s Dr. Linsey Marr leads a $40M ARPA-H project (with Drs. Amy Pruden & Peter Vikesland) to develop smart systems that detect airborne pathogens & automatically adjust ventilation, filtration, or UV light to keep air healthy.
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GCC’s Dr. Linsey Marr leads a $40M ARPA-H project (with Drs. Amy Pruden & Peter Vikesland) to develop smart systems that detect airborne pathogens & automatically adjust ventilation, filtration, or UV light to keep air healthy.
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Up to $40 million in federal funding fuels research to revolutionize clean indoor air
With the contract from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, an interdisciplinary research team led by Virginia Tech and Linsey Marr will create a “smoke alarm” for airborne contaminants…
news.vt.edu
October 30, 2025 at 2:05 PM
🏢💨 Buildings that protect occupants from germs?
GCC’s Dr. Linsey Marr leads a $40M ARPA-H project (with Drs. Amy Pruden & Peter Vikesland) to develop smart systems that detect airborne pathogens & automatically adjust ventilation, filtration, or UV light to keep air healthy.
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GCC’s Dr. Linsey Marr leads a $40M ARPA-H project (with Drs. Amy Pruden & Peter Vikesland) to develop smart systems that detect airborne pathogens & automatically adjust ventilation, filtration, or UV light to keep air healthy.
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🦠 After 514M years, Salterella finally finds its place on the tree of life!
A new study co-authored by GCC’s Dr. Shuhai Xiao places this puzzling Cambrian fossil within the cnidarians — shedding light on the origins of animal skeletons & shells 🌊🔬
A new study co-authored by GCC’s Dr. Shuhai Xiao places this puzzling Cambrian fossil within the cnidarians — shedding light on the origins of animal skeletons & shells 🌊🔬
A skeleton and a shell? Ancient fossil finally finds home on the tree of life
A tiny fossil found in Southwestern Virginia eluded classification for more than 514 million years. Now, Virginia Tech geoscientists have restored this unique organism into its evolutionary lineage.
news.vt.edu
October 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
🦠 After 514M years, Salterella finally finds its place on the tree of life!
A new study co-authored by GCC’s Dr. Shuhai Xiao places this puzzling Cambrian fossil within the cnidarians — shedding light on the origins of animal skeletons & shells 🌊🔬
A new study co-authored by GCC’s Dr. Shuhai Xiao places this puzzling Cambrian fossil within the cnidarians — shedding light on the origins of animal skeletons & shells 🌊🔬
🏆 Congrats to GCC's Dr. Mary Lofton — recipient of the Ecological Forecasting Outstanding Publication Award from the Ecological Society of America!
Her 2024 BioScience study assessed the Macrosystems EDDIE program, which has reached 35K+ students at 50+ institutions worldwide 🌍
Her 2024 BioScience study assessed the Macrosystems EDDIE program, which has reached 35K+ students at 50+ institutions worldwide 🌍
Mary Lofton earns Ecological Forecasting Outstanding Publication Award
The Center for Ecosystem Forecasting is looking years ahead to train the next generation of ecosystem forecasters, environmental data scientists, and water managers with their Macrosystems EDDIE…
news.vt.edu
October 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
🏆 Congrats to GCC's Dr. Mary Lofton — recipient of the Ecological Forecasting Outstanding Publication Award from the Ecological Society of America!
Her 2024 BioScience study assessed the Macrosystems EDDIE program, which has reached 35K+ students at 50+ institutions worldwide 🌍
Her 2024 BioScience study assessed the Macrosystems EDDIE program, which has reached 35K+ students at 50+ institutions worldwide 🌍
📚 Discover the stories shaping Appalachia
Join GCC faculty affiliate Dr. Shannon Bell on Oct. 27 (12:15–1:15 PM) for her #HumanitiesWeek talk: “Honoring the Understories: Seeing Beyond the Coalfields Imaginary in Central Appalachia.”
📍 Newman Library 124
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Join GCC faculty affiliate Dr. Shannon Bell on Oct. 27 (12:15–1:15 PM) for her #HumanitiesWeek talk: “Honoring the Understories: Seeing Beyond the Coalfields Imaginary in Central Appalachia.”
📍 Newman Library 124
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October 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
📚 Discover the stories shaping Appalachia
Join GCC faculty affiliate Dr. Shannon Bell on Oct. 27 (12:15–1:15 PM) for her #HumanitiesWeek talk: “Honoring the Understories: Seeing Beyond the Coalfields Imaginary in Central Appalachia.”
📍 Newman Library 124
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Join GCC faculty affiliate Dr. Shannon Bell on Oct. 27 (12:15–1:15 PM) for her #HumanitiesWeek talk: “Honoring the Understories: Seeing Beyond the Coalfields Imaginary in Central Appalachia.”
📍 Newman Library 124
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🌎 Big news! Ten Virginia Tech grad students & postdocs have been selected as 2025–26 NE CASC Fellows — representing 40% of this year's cohort.
All are mentored by GCC faculty, driving innovation in climate adaptation research. 👏
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All are mentored by GCC faculty, driving innovation in climate adaptation research. 👏
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Graduate fellows step up as climate adaptation leaders
The Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center is a federal-university-tribal research partnership that provides scientific information and tools needed to help fish, wildlife, and ecosystems adapt…
news.vt.edu
October 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
🌎 Big news! Ten Virginia Tech grad students & postdocs have been selected as 2025–26 NE CASC Fellows — representing 40% of this year's cohort.
All are mentored by GCC faculty, driving innovation in climate adaptation research. 👏
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All are mentored by GCC faculty, driving innovation in climate adaptation research. 👏
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🦕 Unwrap 200 million years of history!
Join paleontologists Dr. Nesbitt & Dr. Stocker for the Fossil Unwrapping Party 2025 & grand reopening of the Fossil Prep Lab.
📅 Oct 23 | 6:30 PM
📍 Hahn Hall → Derring Hall & Museum of Geosciences
🎟️ Free & family-friendly (ages 7+)
RSVP soon!
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Join paleontologists Dr. Nesbitt & Dr. Stocker for the Fossil Unwrapping Party 2025 & grand reopening of the Fossil Prep Lab.
📅 Oct 23 | 6:30 PM
📍 Hahn Hall → Derring Hall & Museum of Geosciences
🎟️ Free & family-friendly (ages 7+)
RSVP soon!
buff.ly/rhnjJCm
October 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
🦕 Unwrap 200 million years of history!
Join paleontologists Dr. Nesbitt & Dr. Stocker for the Fossil Unwrapping Party 2025 & grand reopening of the Fossil Prep Lab.
📅 Oct 23 | 6:30 PM
📍 Hahn Hall → Derring Hall & Museum of Geosciences
🎟️ Free & family-friendly (ages 7+)
RSVP soon!
buff.ly/rhnjJCm
Join paleontologists Dr. Nesbitt & Dr. Stocker for the Fossil Unwrapping Party 2025 & grand reopening of the Fossil Prep Lab.
📅 Oct 23 | 6:30 PM
📍 Hahn Hall → Derring Hall & Museum of Geosciences
🎟️ Free & family-friendly (ages 7+)
RSVP soon!
buff.ly/rhnjJCm
🎤 Big ideas in 90 seconds!
The 2025 #NutshellGames return TOMORROW, Oct 23 at 5:30 PM. Join grad students as they share their research - no slides, no jargon, just creativity.
Cheer on IGC fellows:
🌱 Emily Matthews
🦟 James Moloney
🐟 Anu Rai
Free & open to all! 👉 buff.ly/7PG5Tg5
The 2025 #NutshellGames return TOMORROW, Oct 23 at 5:30 PM. Join grad students as they share their research - no slides, no jargon, just creativity.
Cheer on IGC fellows:
🌱 Emily Matthews
🦟 James Moloney
🐟 Anu Rai
Free & open to all! 👉 buff.ly/7PG5Tg5
October 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
🎤 Big ideas in 90 seconds!
The 2025 #NutshellGames return TOMORROW, Oct 23 at 5:30 PM. Join grad students as they share their research - no slides, no jargon, just creativity.
Cheer on IGC fellows:
🌱 Emily Matthews
🦟 James Moloney
🐟 Anu Rai
Free & open to all! 👉 buff.ly/7PG5Tg5
The 2025 #NutshellGames return TOMORROW, Oct 23 at 5:30 PM. Join grad students as they share their research - no slides, no jargon, just creativity.
Cheer on IGC fellows:
🌱 Emily Matthews
🦟 James Moloney
🐟 Anu Rai
Free & open to all! 👉 buff.ly/7PG5Tg5
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Hope you can join us for three full days (June 2-4th, 2026) of great science in a beautiful setting!
October 20, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Hope you can join us for three full days (June 2-4th, 2026) of great science in a beautiful setting!
🐦 Want to help protect migrating birds?
GCC affiliate Dr. Ashley Dayer shares tips in an ABC 8 News feature:
🌿 Plant native species
💡 Turn off lights at night
🐱 Keep cats indoors
Simple steps, big conservation impact. 🌎
GCC affiliate Dr. Ashley Dayer shares tips in an ABC 8 News feature:
🌿 Plant native species
💡 Turn off lights at night
🐱 Keep cats indoors
Simple steps, big conservation impact. 🌎
Conservationist draws research inspiration from rare Hawaiian bird
Ashley Dayer, a Virginia Tech professor and conservationist, began searching for one of the world’s rarest birds in Maui nearly 25 years ago.
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October 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
🐦 Want to help protect migrating birds?
GCC affiliate Dr. Ashley Dayer shares tips in an ABC 8 News feature:
🌿 Plant native species
💡 Turn off lights at night
🐱 Keep cats indoors
Simple steps, big conservation impact. 🌎
GCC affiliate Dr. Ashley Dayer shares tips in an ABC 8 News feature:
🌿 Plant native species
💡 Turn off lights at night
🐱 Keep cats indoors
Simple steps, big conservation impact. 🌎
🦕 Unwrap 200 million years of history!
Join paleontologists Dr. Nesbitt & Dr. Stocker for the Fossil Unwrapping Party 2025 & grand reopening of the Fossil Prep Lab.
📅 Oct 23 | 6:30 PM
📍 Hahn Hall → Derring Hall & Museum of Geosciences
🎟️ Free & family-friendly (ages 7+)
RSVP soon!
buff.ly/rhnjJCm
Join paleontologists Dr. Nesbitt & Dr. Stocker for the Fossil Unwrapping Party 2025 & grand reopening of the Fossil Prep Lab.
📅 Oct 23 | 6:30 PM
📍 Hahn Hall → Derring Hall & Museum of Geosciences
🎟️ Free & family-friendly (ages 7+)
RSVP soon!
buff.ly/rhnjJCm
October 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
🦕 Unwrap 200 million years of history!
Join paleontologists Dr. Nesbitt & Dr. Stocker for the Fossil Unwrapping Party 2025 & grand reopening of the Fossil Prep Lab.
📅 Oct 23 | 6:30 PM
📍 Hahn Hall → Derring Hall & Museum of Geosciences
🎟️ Free & family-friendly (ages 7+)
RSVP soon!
buff.ly/rhnjJCm
Join paleontologists Dr. Nesbitt & Dr. Stocker for the Fossil Unwrapping Party 2025 & grand reopening of the Fossil Prep Lab.
📅 Oct 23 | 6:30 PM
📍 Hahn Hall → Derring Hall & Museum of Geosciences
🎟️ Free & family-friendly (ages 7+)
RSVP soon!
buff.ly/rhnjJCm
💧 Become a community scientist!
Chasing Salt invites teachers, students & community members to help study how road salt & agricultural runoff affect streams.
🗓️ Sign up by Oct 15 to receive your sampling kit & contribute to environmental research!
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Chasing Salt invites teachers, students & community members to help study how road salt & agricultural runoff affect streams.
🗓️ Sign up by Oct 15 to receive your sampling kit & contribute to environmental research!
sentrekin.com/communitysci...
October 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
💧 Become a community scientist!
Chasing Salt invites teachers, students & community members to help study how road salt & agricultural runoff affect streams.
🗓️ Sign up by Oct 15 to receive your sampling kit & contribute to environmental research!
sentrekin.com/communitysci...
Chasing Salt invites teachers, students & community members to help study how road salt & agricultural runoff affect streams.
🗓️ Sign up by Oct 15 to receive your sampling kit & contribute to environmental research!
sentrekin.com/communitysci...
🌟 Congrats to GCC affiliates elected to the Virginia Academy of Science, Engineering & Medicine!
🌊 Dr. Cayelan Carey – pioneering freshwater ecosystem forecasting
🐸 Dr. Bill Hopkins – advancing biodiversity research amid climate change
🌊 Dr. Cayelan Carey – pioneering freshwater ecosystem forecasting
🐸 Dr. Bill Hopkins – advancing biodiversity research amid climate change
Five faculty members elected to the Virginia Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine
The new members are Cayelan Carey, William "Bill" Hopkins, Liwu Li, Hesham Rakha, and Julie Ross.
news.vt.edu
October 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
🌟 Congrats to GCC affiliates elected to the Virginia Academy of Science, Engineering & Medicine!
🌊 Dr. Cayelan Carey – pioneering freshwater ecosystem forecasting
🐸 Dr. Bill Hopkins – advancing biodiversity research amid climate change
🌊 Dr. Cayelan Carey – pioneering freshwater ecosystem forecasting
🐸 Dr. Bill Hopkins – advancing biodiversity research amid climate change
Major research awards at Virginia Tech are driving health, security, tech & sustainability forward.
Highlighted GCC affiliates:
✨ Dr. Marr – $18M NSF, COMPASS Center
✨ Drs. Chaves, Sorice, Kindsvater & Ramseyer – $1.7M NSF, fisheries project
Highlighted GCC affiliates:
✨ Dr. Marr – $18M NSF, COMPASS Center
✨ Drs. Chaves, Sorice, Kindsvater & Ramseyer – $1.7M NSF, fisheries project
Research awards strengthen communities, Virginia, and the nation
From predicting pandemics and advancing drone defense to developing new treatments for traumatic brain injuries, new research awards secured by faculty in fiscal year 2025 will drive a wide range of…
news.vt.edu
October 3, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Major research awards at Virginia Tech are driving health, security, tech & sustainability forward.
Highlighted GCC affiliates:
✨ Dr. Marr – $18M NSF, COMPASS Center
✨ Drs. Chaves, Sorice, Kindsvater & Ramseyer – $1.7M NSF, fisheries project
Highlighted GCC affiliates:
✨ Dr. Marr – $18M NSF, COMPASS Center
✨ Drs. Chaves, Sorice, Kindsvater & Ramseyer – $1.7M NSF, fisheries project
🎧 NEW: GCC affiliate Dr. Cayelan Carey talks ecosystem forecasting on VT’s Curious Conversations podcast.
Her team uses sensor data + modeling to predict water quality and support ecosystem management worldwide. 🌍💧
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Her team uses sensor data + modeling to predict water quality and support ecosystem management worldwide. 🌍💧
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'Curious Conversations' podcast: Cayelan Carey talks about ecosystem forecasting
Carey's ecosystem forecasting provides near real-time predictions about water quality in lakes and reservoirs. Believed to be the first of its kind, the system is collecting data from 15 lakes and…
news.vt.edu
October 2, 2025 at 2:04 PM
🎧 NEW: GCC affiliate Dr. Cayelan Carey talks ecosystem forecasting on VT’s Curious Conversations podcast.
Her team uses sensor data + modeling to predict water quality and support ecosystem management worldwide. 🌍💧
▶️ Listen:
Her team uses sensor data + modeling to predict water quality and support ecosystem management worldwide. 🌍💧
▶️ Listen:
🌊🐟 Congrats to GCC affiliate Dr. Elizabeth Nyboer!
She’s leading Virginia Tech’s role in the Ginebigomeg Project. This collaborative effort explores Indigenous relationships with sea lamprey and strengthens communication between Indigenous communities and management authorities.
She’s leading Virginia Tech’s role in the Ginebigomeg Project. This collaborative effort explores Indigenous relationships with sea lamprey and strengthens communication between Indigenous communities and management authorities.
Virginia Tech researcher awarded Great Lakes Fishery Commission grant for sea lamprey project
Assistant Professor Beth Nyboer was awarded a grant to study how communication around sea lamprey management and control takes place between state authorities and Indigenous communities to identify…
news.vt.edu
October 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
🌊🐟 Congrats to GCC affiliate Dr. Elizabeth Nyboer!
She’s leading Virginia Tech’s role in the Ginebigomeg Project. This collaborative effort explores Indigenous relationships with sea lamprey and strengthens communication between Indigenous communities and management authorities.
She’s leading Virginia Tech’s role in the Ginebigomeg Project. This collaborative effort explores Indigenous relationships with sea lamprey and strengthens communication between Indigenous communities and management authorities.
🎉 Congrats to GCC affiliates recently honored with endowed appointments at VT!
✨ Dr. Cayelan Carey, Patricia Caldwell Faculty Fellowship
✨ Dr. Gabriel Isaacman-VanWertz, Anthony & Catherine Moraco Endowed Faculty Fellowship
Recognizing excellence in research, teaching & service. 👏
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✨ Dr. Cayelan Carey, Patricia Caldwell Faculty Fellowship
✨ Dr. Gabriel Isaacman-VanWertz, Anthony & Catherine Moraco Endowed Faculty Fellowship
Recognizing excellence in research, teaching & service. 👏
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21 faculty members named to endowed chairs, professorships, and fellowships
The Board of Visitors appointed 21 faculty members to endowed positions at its Aug. 20 meeting.
news.vt.edu
September 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
🎉 Congrats to GCC affiliates recently honored with endowed appointments at VT!
✨ Dr. Cayelan Carey, Patricia Caldwell Faculty Fellowship
✨ Dr. Gabriel Isaacman-VanWertz, Anthony & Catherine Moraco Endowed Faculty Fellowship
Recognizing excellence in research, teaching & service. 👏
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✨ Dr. Cayelan Carey, Patricia Caldwell Faculty Fellowship
✨ Dr. Gabriel Isaacman-VanWertz, Anthony & Catherine Moraco Endowed Faculty Fellowship
Recognizing excellence in research, teaching & service. 👏
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Know a dataset making an impact for people, planet, or prosperity?
🌎 Nominate it for AGU’s upcoming commentary by 10 Oct. You may be featured!
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#ImpactfulData #EarthScience
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#ImpactfulData #EarthScience
Nominate an Impactful Dataset
You are invited to nominate a dataset to be included in a commentary about the impact of Earth, space, and environmental data using the dimensions of people, planet, and prosperity. Selected…
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September 30, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Know a dataset making an impact for people, planet, or prosperity?
🌎 Nominate it for AGU’s upcoming commentary by 10 Oct. You may be featured!
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#ImpactfulData #EarthScience
🌎 Nominate it for AGU’s upcoming commentary by 10 Oct. You may be featured!
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#ImpactfulData #EarthScience
🌿 How do you fight invasive species?
IGC fellow Harrison Miles is featured in a VT News video on his research tackling the Tree of Heaven and spotted lanternfly.
His innovative work uses a natural fungus to explore vineyard & ecosystem protection. 🍇
IGC fellow Harrison Miles is featured in a VT News video on his research tackling the Tree of Heaven and spotted lanternfly.
His innovative work uses a natural fungus to explore vineyard & ecosystem protection. 🍇
Using the spotted lanternfly to control a different kind of invasive species
Harrison Miles, a Ph.D. student in forest reesources and environmental conservation, is studying the effects of using a native fungus on the spotted lanternfly's preferred host, the tree of heaven.…
news.vt.edu
September 29, 2025 at 5:30 PM
🌿 How do you fight invasive species?
IGC fellow Harrison Miles is featured in a VT News video on his research tackling the Tree of Heaven and spotted lanternfly.
His innovative work uses a natural fungus to explore vineyard & ecosystem protection. 🍇
IGC fellow Harrison Miles is featured in a VT News video on his research tackling the Tree of Heaven and spotted lanternfly.
His innovative work uses a natural fungus to explore vineyard & ecosystem protection. 🍇
💧🏆 Congrats to GCC faculty affiliate Dr. Cayelan Carey for receiving the Patricia Caldwell Faculty Fellowship!
Her research on harmful algal blooms and leadership at the Center for Ecosystem Forecasting is shaping the future of freshwater science.
Her research on harmful algal blooms and leadership at the Center for Ecosystem Forecasting is shaping the future of freshwater science.
Cayelan Carey awarded faculty fellowship
Carey’s primary research addresses an increasingly serious environmental and public health challenge – predicting and controlling nuisance and harmful blooms of algae in lakes and reservoirs. This…
news.vt.edu
September 26, 2025 at 2:02 PM
💧🏆 Congrats to GCC faculty affiliate Dr. Cayelan Carey for receiving the Patricia Caldwell Faculty Fellowship!
Her research on harmful algal blooms and leadership at the Center for Ecosystem Forecasting is shaping the future of freshwater science.
Her research on harmful algal blooms and leadership at the Center for Ecosystem Forecasting is shaping the future of freshwater science.
🌍✨ Meet the new IGC GSO officers for 2025–26!
These student leaders strengthen the Global Change Center community through education, collaboration & outreach.
These student leaders strengthen the Global Change Center community through education, collaboration & outreach.
Congratulations to New IGC GSO Officers for the 2025-2026 Academic Year
The Interfaces of Global Change Graduate Student Organization exists to benefit the IGC community as a whole through student contributions to infrastructural, educational, and social investments and…
globalchange.vt.edu
September 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
🌍✨ Meet the new IGC GSO officers for 2025–26!
These student leaders strengthen the Global Change Center community through education, collaboration & outreach.
These student leaders strengthen the Global Change Center community through education, collaboration & outreach.
🌎🐦 GCC faculty affiliate Dr. Ashley Dayer is using social science to protect Atlantic Flyway shorebirds! Her research guides conservation strategies from New York to Florida and informs Virginia’s Wildlife Viewing Plan.
A rare Hawaiian bird’s history guides conservationist’s research today
Ashley Dayer’s work connects people and wildlife across continents.
news.vt.edu
September 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
🌎🐦 GCC faculty affiliate Dr. Ashley Dayer is using social science to protect Atlantic Flyway shorebirds! Her research guides conservation strategies from New York to Florida and informs Virginia’s Wildlife Viewing Plan.