The University of Virginia has collaborated on new underwater research that has found something additionally disturbing about the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica – aka the “Doomsday Glacier,” so named because it holds the fate of our coastline in the balance as it acts as a gateway to the larger West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
Ph.D. candidate Spencer Tassone was interviewed live on Fox Weather about his recent publication on the increasing frequency of heatwaves in streams and rivers of the United States (paper link / interview link).
Rising Scholar Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Environmental Sciences
From INSIDE A&S (Oct. 5, 2022 edition)
A paper by Dr. Klein & Dr. Haynes, Light pollution may create demographic traps for nocturnal insects, was selected as the most-cited research paper in Basic and Applied Ecology!
From Inside Arts & Sciences September 21 2022 Newsletter
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., in partnership with the Rosalind Franklin Society has launched a prestigious annual award to recognize outstanding published peer-reviewed research by women and underrepresented minorities in science in each of the publisher’s peer-reviewed journals.
Graduate students Rong Li and Xinhuiyu Liu have won prestigious graduate fellowships from NASA -- the Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) fellowship. 62 proposals were selected among the 394 proposals submitted.
