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Kailyn Kampert, a Virginia Tech student taking the Wildlife Field Techniques course, straps a motion-activated camera to a tree to capture photos of animals.

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Ryan Brown, right, executive director of the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, interacted with students, faculty, and staff during his two-day visit to campus.

VDGIF executive director is College of Natural Resources and Environment’s inaugural visiting executive

Hollins University students, Grishma Bhattarai (left) and Udipta Bohara (right), presented their research findings during the 2019 Summer Research Symposium at Virginia Tech. Courtesy of Virginia Tech.

Global Change Center partners with Hollins University to promote undergraduate research opportunities

A volunteer participates in a BioBlitz at Rocky Mountain National Park. BioBlitz events — an intensive field study in an area that usually lasts for more than 24 hours — can help identify the presence of invasive species in national parks. Photo courtesy of the National Park Service

New expert findings seek to protect national parks from invasive animal species

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Terrestrial Mammal Ecology/Biologist
Fall 2019 Global Education Scholarship Recipients

Global Education Scholarships awarded to 27 students

Snowy Plovers in the Florida Panhandle. Photo: Britt Brown

Florida's Shorebirds Saw a Big Breeding Bump After Hurricane Michael

This photo of piping plover chicks was taken by Chelsea Weithman.

Order 2020 calendar featuring work of fish and wildlife graduate students

A chickadee and a goldfinch feast on black-oil sunflower seeds at a backyard bird feeder.

Bird feeders: New research revelations ahead of the backyarders’ prime season

A Cooper's hawk is flying free above Virginia Tech thanks to Hokies and the Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center of Roanoke. The hawk flew into a window and then spiraled to the ground at the Alphin Stuart Livestock Arena. Less than a week later, the hawk has been released back into the wild.

Hokies help Cooper's hawk spread its wings and fly

Northern Snakehead fish. Credit: Donald Orth

You spot a land-crawling “Frankenfish,” now what?

Cameras mounted opposite each other a few feet off the ground captured this image of an ocelot in the forests of Belize.

Fifteen years of ocelot tracking is revealing new information about this elusive cat

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Dec 12th -UG Fish & Wildlife Conservation Community Networking Program
 
12:00-1:00pm |  Cheatham Student Lounge

Dec 12th -UG Fish & Wildlife Conservation Community Networking Program
 
12:00-1:00pm |  Cheatham Student Lounge

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 Recognition Spotlights

2019 AFS Scholarship Winners accepting their awards

Congratulations to Sheila Harris, Alissa Ganser, and Katie McBaine on their wins at the 2019 Joint Meeting of the Virginia, Virginia Tech & West Virginia Chapters of the American Fisheries Society.  

photo of TWS award winners

Congratulations to all our presenters at the 2019 TWS State Conference! Hokies took home 7 of the 8 awards. Way to go, VTTWS! 

 

 

 

photo of Brian Case and Corbin Hilling

Congratulations to graduate students Brian Case and Corbin Hilling, who earned graduate research fellowships from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Virginia Sea Grant, respectively!