Virginia Tech professor and Discovery Channel team up on a great white shark research expedition in the Mediterranean

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The team is using cutting-edge technology to compile data about populations of Mediterranean great white sharks currently considered by many researchers to be endangered. Adobe stock photo.

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Photo of SCE Scholar Tiffany Drape paddleboarding at Claytor Lake, Virginia. Photo courtesy of Megan Wawro and Tiffany Drape.

Six interdisciplinary research teams announced as 2022 ISCE Scholars

Picture of faculty and Students in the field: Faculty and students from the College of Natural Resources and Environment are gaining a better understanding of the bluehead chub and uncovering their secrets just may be the key to conservation efforts.

An amazing ecosystem engineer in Southwest Virginia

Gwyneth Martin, a senior in marine fish conservation, participated in this year’s Fralin Undergraduate Research Fellowship (FURF) even amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Photo courtesy of Gwyneth Martin.

Fralin Undergraduate Research Fellow investigates microplastics in local fish

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Three faculty members join the College of Natural Resources and Environment

Sharon Dorsey, one of the organizers of #BlackinEnviron Week focuses on activism, spotlighting Black professionals in the environmental fields and ways in which local action can produce results. Dorsey is a Baltimore native and Virginia Tech graduate student. (Courtesy Sharon Dorsey)

Small acts really can make a difference, says organizer behind Black In Environment Week

Wildlife conservation major Haley Olsen-Hodges treats a critically injured female northern cardinal at the Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center of Roanoke. Photo by Ray Meese for Virginia Tech.

Under her wing: Wildlife student applies experience to rehabilitating birds

Photo: Italy’s Monte Conero promontory and surrounding park is one of the last protected coastal shores in an otherwise developed coastline of the western Adriatic Sea. Researchers found that the central and northern Adriatic Sea are among the global areas where protection could achieve the triple benefits discussed in their paper in the journal Nature. Photo by Francesco Ferretti, Virginia Tech.

Biodiversity, fishing, and the environment: thinking globally to protect our oceans