Spring 2013

A “perfect storm” ahead for natural resource agencies, which will lose over 40 percent of their personnel in the next decade as baby boomers retire.

A group from the college traveled to Vandenberg Air Force Base in California to attend the February launch of Landsat 8.

George M. Hornberger, Distinguished University Professor at Vanderbilt University, presented a seminar on campus titled “Challenges and Opportunities in Water Resources Research and Education.”

Ashley Lohr was one of seven students chosen from 45 applicants for the 2012-13 ACC Creativity and Innovation Fellowship.

Elizabeth Moore of Charlottesville, Va., spent last summer in the Adamaoua Province of Cameroon in Western Africa to complete field research and explore the potential for agroforestry opportunities in the area.

Doctoral students Rebecca Kidd of Newport, Va., and Matt Johnson of Colonial Heights, Va., conducted research on Virginia’s Blackwater River last summer with Jeff Turner, the Riverkeeper for the Blackwater and Nottoway rivers.

Tom Fox, professor of forest soils and silviculture, was named a Fellow by two different national societies in 2012.

For millions of people around the world, getting enough calories to survive is a challenge, but helping them meet these daily needs solves only part of the problem.

Doctoral program advisors are considered pseudo-parents (aka “doctor father” or “doctor mother”) in some cultures, like the very traditional German academic system.