Grad Student Publishes Op-Ed on COVID and the Environment
Master's student Tara Illgner recently published a letter to editor with the local Charlottesville area newspaper The Daily Progress. See link below to full article.
EVSC alum answers PEW center Q&A on seagrass
Dr. Jud Kenworthy, who earned his masters from the EVSC department in 1981 explains the value of protecting North Carolina’s seagrass in this PEW center Q&A interview. Click link below to read more.
Watch the Undergraduate Student Diploma Ceremony Here
Congratulations to our undergraduate students! Please follow the "View Full Story" link below to watch the diploma ceremonies on vimeo.
Watch the Graduate Student Diploma Ceremony Here
Congratulations to our graduate students! Please follow the "View Full Story" link below to watch the diploma ceremonies on vimeo.
Envi Sci. Professor elected to the National Academy of Sciences
The National Academy of Sciences announced today the election of 120 members and 26 international members in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Of the 120 members elected today was UVA's very own Dr. Jim Galloway, Sidman P. Poole Professor in the Department of Environmental Science. Those elected today bring the total number of active members to 2,403 and the total number of international members to 501. Congratulations on this outstanding career achievement Dr. Galloway!
PhD Student Wins Award
Christina Fantasia Buscher, PhD student in the department, received an award for an outstanding TED-inspired talk at the Virginia Sea Grant Graduate Symposium held in Richmond, VA in late February.
Envi Sci students visit Washington, DC
Dr. Stephen Macko's January 2019 term undergraduate course, Managing a Sustainable Sea, visited the EPA, NOAA, Oceana, Environmental Law Institute and Smithsonian.
Envi Sci Grad Student Wins Award at Fall AGU Meeting
Environmental Science Ph.D. student Christina Fantasia Buscher was awarded the Outstanding Student Presentation award at the Fall 2019 AGU meeting in San Francisco, CA. Her talk was entitled, "Decreasing pH Negatively Impacts Stage Z1 Atlantic Blue Crabs, Callinectes sapidus". Congratulations Christina!
#Write Climate: Art to build climate awareness rolls out workshop on grounds. Join them next Saturday at the Corner Building 12-2
Thanks to the Jefferson Trust and the UVA Committee on Sustainability, Write Climate, in year 3, is taking art-for-climate into Charlottesville High School. Nine UVa students, artist Amanda Nelsen and Envi Sci Professor Deborah Lawrence are working with two teachers and 80 9th graders in Environmental Science. We are going into the classrooms every other week, teaching some climate science and then working with plastic. An afterschool art ‘club’ every week is open to anybody at the high school.
Hiring Assistant Professor in Hydroclimatology
The UVA Department of Environmental Sciences is seeking applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Hydroclimatology. More information and the application are available at UVA HR.
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