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10-Year Nutrient Pollution Proposal
As those involved with the Consortium are well aware, nutrient pollution is one of the ‘grand challenges’ of our time. It is a particularly vexing problem given the complex web of ecological, social and economic factors involved. Despite significant attention being paid to addressing nutrient pollution by governments agencies, industry, non-governmental organizations and other stakeholders,...
Read MoreNew Professor at VT
New Professor at Virginia Tech Virginia Tech recently hired a new co-director for their Occoquan Watershed Monitoring Lab in northern Virginia. Stanley Grant came to VT from University of California Irvine, and he will also serve as a professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department. Grant has always been interested in nutrient pollution and transport, spending the last several...
Read MoreVirginia Tech and STAC
Virginia Tech has a long history of supporting CRC’s Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC). Brian Benham serves as chair of STAC, and Kurt Stephenson was recently appointed to the Executive Board. In addition, several VT researchers also serve on STAC, including Tess Thompson, Gene Yagow (retired), and Zach Easton, who recently led the review of the Chesapeake Bay...
Read More2018 REU Programs
The National Science Foundation (NSF) supports summer research opportunities for undergraduates across the country. Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) are programs with cohorts of 10-15 students designed to give students the opportunity to pursue independent research projects outside of their university. The students work closely with a mentor on a specific research project and are...
Read MoreClimate Change Modeling
A team of researchers from Virginia Tech (VT), University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES), Penn State (PSU), and USDA published a new climate change study in Science of the Total Environment this past May. The goal of the study was to better understand nutrient exports from agricultural landscapes under the effects of climate change. The research team included VT researchers Moges Wagena (lead...
Read MoreFarming & Climate Change
Researchers at Virginia Tech recently published a paper in “Science of the Total Environment” discussing how agricultural conservation practices (CPs) can mitigate the impacts of climate change on water quality. Scientists Moges Wagena and Zachary Easton chose to study the effects of climate change and the effectiveness of CPs in the Susquehanna River Basin, the largest source of...
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