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A student team surveyed invertebrates as indicators of stream quality as part of several efforts with the Stroubles Creek Coalition.

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AMAZON FISH SPECIES AT RISK IF FIRES DESTROY RIVER HABITAT The fires burning through the Brazilian Amazon are a threat to the fish that rely on forest flooding to survive, raising fears the fish will be lost.

 Amazon fish species at risk if fires destroy river habitat

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Brandon Plunket & Clay Ferguson among winners for Shimano 'Varsity Program' scholarship. 

photo of hellbender by Kat Diersen

Making connections: Farmers, meet hellbenders

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Terrestrial Mammal Ecology/Biologist
Pangolins are believed to be the world’s most trafficked mammal, targeted most often for their scales. Untold numbers are killed each year throughout their range in Asia and Africa. PHOTOGRAPH BY BRENT STIRTON, GETTY/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

Cowboy boots sold in the U.S. fueled the decline of pangolins-NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

Researcher Don Orth and a huge catfish catch. Credit: Orth

Blue catfish on the move

The Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes of Virginia in its natural habitat.

10 lessons learned from writing a book about fish

photo of a spoon billed sandpiper. Photo credit: Iosif Kaurov

VT Shorebird Program to coordinate efforts to survey potential breeding locations for the spoon billed sandpiper

Photo: A female piping plover emits a high-pitched call to distract predators from her nest.Credit: Katie Walker

Who Liked Hurricane Sandy? These Tiny, Endangered Birds

Juvenile roseate tern begging at an adult. Photo credit: David Hollie.

The hunger games: Do fledged chicks beg honestly?

former doctoral student Claudia Wultsch (now of the American Museum of Natural History) worked with a researcher at the University of Cincinnati to track jaguars in Belize

Isotopes in poop show where secretive jaguars hunt

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EVENTS

Sept 23rd
VTAFS Meeting & Speaker  

Dr. Holly Kindsvater
5:30pm |  317 B/C Cheatham Hall

Sept 24th
Student Chapter of the Wildlife Disease Association 
 
7:00pm | Derring 1047

Sept 26th - EEB Seminar 

"Crazy" love:  nonlinearities & irrationality in mate choice

Mike Ryan, UT Austin

3:30-4:45pm |  Derring Hall 4069

Sept 27th
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.  

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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!