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Advancing understanding of the environment through interdisciplinary scientific research & education.

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Advancing understanding of the environment through interdisciplinary scientific research & education.

Alaska. Photo captured by Kelcy Kent
Clark Hall

Advancing understanding of the environment through interdisciplinary scientific research & education.

Trees

Advancing understanding of the environment through interdisciplinary scientific research & education.

Alaska. Photo captured by Kelcy Kent

Res. Prof. Peter Berg Elected ASLO Fellow

Research Professor Peter Berg was elected to the 2016 class of the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) Fellows. The ASLO Fellows program honors individuals who have given tirelessly of their time and talents to support ASLO’s mission to advance the sciences of limnology and oceanography. He will be honored during the upcoming ASLO 2017 Aquatic Sciences Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Department graduate students host EnviroDay 2017

Environmental Sciences graduate students, led by Alice Besterman and Erin Swails, hosted the 2017 EnviroDay symposium on February 24, 2017. The symposium theme was “Global Change and Public Health” and featured 16 talks and 12 posters from undergraduate and graduate students from several UVA departments. The keynote seminar “Of Mice and Men: Emerging Infectious Disease in a Warmer, More Fragmented World” was delivered by Dr. Richard Ostfeld from the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies.

Professors Reidenbach and Thomson to speak at Yamuna River Project Exhibition

UVA’s Yamuna River Project is a campus wide project to “revitalize the ecology of the Yumuna River in New Delhi and reconnect India’s capital city back to the water” (link to project website). Professor Matt Reidenbach will speak at the opening talks on Thursday, 3/16/17 at 5PM in the East Wing Gallery of Campbell Hall. Professor Vivian Thomson will speak at the closing symposium on Friday, 4/14/17 at 10AM in Hotel A, One West Range. Click on the flier below for more details.

Dept. grad students Ferguson and Cook win R.J. Husky Graduate Research poster awards

Environmental Sciences students Amy Ferguson and Brynn Cook won top awards for posters at the 2017 Robert J. Huskey Graduate Research Exhibition. Amy’s poster “Making the case for nature-based solutions to coastal erosion in Virginia’s coastal bays” tied for 1st Place in Division 1 – Natural Sciences Poster Presentation. Brynn’s poster won 1st Place in Division 2 – Natural Sciences Poster Presentation. The R.J. Huskey exhibition showcases the work done by graduate students at the University of Virginia.

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