These Americans may become ‘climate refugees’
Climate change has forced Shishmaref, Alaska residents to confront the prospect that they may have to relocate their entire village before it disappears.
Source: CNN
Don’t miss the public screening of a new documentary film, Between Earth and Sky, at the Lyric Theatre in Blacksburg on Wednesday, April 12, 2017.
These Americans may become ‘climate refugees’
Climate change has forced Shishmaref, Alaska residents to confront the prospect that they may have to relocate their entire village before it disappears.
Source: CNN
Don’t miss the public screening of a new documentary film, Between Earth and Sky, at the Lyric Theatre in Blacksburg on Wednesday, April 12, 2017.
—-by Shuai Luo, PhD student of the Department of Civil and Engineering and Water INTERface IGEP With closer approach of my graduation for my PhD degree, there are many points in my education experience deserving … Continue reading →
From VT NEWS
Pumping oxygen into the bottom waters of Southwest Virginia’s drinking water reservoirs can reduce treatment costs and help fish and other aquatic life, according to an interdisciplinary research team with the Global Change Center at Virginia Tech.
The team has installed oxygenation systems in three reservoirs that serve Roanoke and surrounding county residents — Carvins Cove, Falling Creek, and Spring Hollow — and are monitoring them to see how increased oxygen levels affect the amount of ...
From National Geographic
“Biggest Case on the Planet” Pits Kids vs. Climate Change
By Laura Parker
Levi Draheim is a nine-year-old science geek. He founded an environmental club as a fourth grader and gives talks about climate change to audiences of grown-ups. His home is on a slender barrier island on Florida’s Atlantic coast, 21 miles south of Cape Canaveral and a five-minute walk from the beach. By mid-century, his sandy childhood playground could be submerged by rising seas. ...
A Virginia Tech graduate student is living in one of the hottest and driest countries in the world this semester so that he can study how climate change, land management, and other human-caused phenomena impact a community of animals known as the cavity guild.
Composed of birds, reptiles, mammals, amphibians, and invertebrates, the cavity guild, biologically speaking, is a group of animals that depend on holes and crevices in trees for their nesting sites.
However, ...
—–by Dr. Courtney Crist, graduated from Water IGEP on May 2016. Presented by Dr. Susan Duncan, Professor of Department of Food Science and Technology and co-director of Water IGEP, presented at 11th IWA Symposium on Tastes, Odours & … Continue reading →
—-by Katherine Phetxumphou, Ph.D. candidate of Civil Environmental Engineering and Water IGEP, presented at 11th IWA Symposium on Tastes, Odours & Algal Toxins in Water in Sydney Australia on February 2017. Introduction: Published food and … Continue reading →
We are proud of IGC Fellow, Max Ragozzino, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Entomology at Virginia Tech. Max recently participated in the Center of Communicating Science’s “Nutshell Games”, where graduate students were encouraged to describe their research “in a 90-second nutshell”. Max tied with three other contestants for first place!
Congratulations, Max!
The Global Change Center at Virginia Tech is pleased to welcome Brian Richter for a Distinguished Lecture at the Lyric Theatre.
Title: “Chasing Water in a Dynamically Changing World”
Date: Friday, April 7, 2017, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Location: The Lyric Theatre
Brian Richter has been a global leader in water science and conservation for more than 25 years. He is the Chief Scientist for the Global Water Program of The Nature Conservancy, an international conservation organization, where he promotes sustainable water use and ...
