The Department of Environmental Sciences seminar series presents:

Ashbury Sallenger, USGS
“Barrier-Island Failure Modes Triggered by Hurricane Katrina: Implications for Future Sea-Level-Rise Impacts”
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
3:30 PM
Room 108, Clark Hall

Refreshments will be served a 3:00
We hope you can attend

Graduate student David Lutz was recently awarded a $40,000 grant to study the impact of climate change on Russian boreal forests. The funding was awarded through the U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation as an international project in collaboration with the Russian Academy of Sciences. Congratulations David!
Information about the U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation

Associate Professor Vivian Thomson’s book, “Garbage In, Garbage Out: Solving the Problems with Long-Distance Trash Transport”, is now in print (University of Virginia Press, 2009).  This work examines interstate trash transport in the United States within a broad social, economic, and cultural context that includes comparisons with practices in the EU and Japan.

Guidelines from UGARC presented to and accepted by the faculty on November 14, 2007

Rating scheme for DMP’s level of distinction (guidelines, not rules)
The benefit of having a guideline for making recommendations for level of distinction include
1) uniformity of outcome from year to year as UGARC membership changes
2) students can know approximately what they might expect [...]

Graduate student Meredith Ferdie Muth was recently awarded a Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship.
The National Sea Grant College Program Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship, established in 1979, provides a unique educational experience to students who have an interest in ocean, coastal and Great Lakes resources and in the national policy decisions affecting those resources. [...]

Graduate student Jennifer Romanowich was recently awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship. This is an extremely competitive and prestigious award, and funds her Ph.D. research at the University of Virginia. Her fellowship is through the Biological Oceanography program at NSF to study the hydrodynamics and sediment transport processes occurring in seagrass and coral [...]

Deborah Lawrence, associate professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia, has recently been named a Jefferson Science Fellow by the U.S. Department of State, pending diplomatic security clearance approval.
UVA Today Announcement
Lawrence this year also was named a Guggenheim Fellow and a Fulbright Scholar. She earned these two awards to continue work on the [...]

In many environments exhibiting rapid geomorphic change, landscapes evolve by a combination of physical, biological, and anthropogenic forces. In my research, I aim to better understand how these coupled processes influence the formation and survival of large scale landscapes, and how they respond to climate change.  The couplings are particularly strong in tidal marshes, where [...]

Please use the below links to access information regarding the department network and resources.  Otherwise, please contact Will.

Configuring your personal computer:

How to set your computer up for wireless access
Using Microsoft Exchange Calendar
Anti virus support
Backing up data

Printing help:

How to set your computer up for printing
Connecting to the Black and White printer (3rd Floor Clark)
How to print [...]

The American Society of Limnology and Oceanography has honored Prof. Michael Pace with the G. Evelyn Hutchinson Award
The G. Evelyn Hutchinson Award has been presented annually since 1982 to recognize excellence in any aspect of limnology or oceanography. The award is intended to symbolize the quality and innovations toward which the society strives and to [...]

These guidelines should be used for all research proposal submissions to the GARC unless otherwise specified in the call for proposals. If there are questions not addressed in this document, they should be referred to the chair of the GARC.
All proposals must contain the following items in the order specified. The proposal must be printed [...]

The Graduate Academic Review Committee (Chair: Robert Davis) oversees graduate research efforts in the department. This committee manages requests for travel awards and the annual competition for research awards supported from the Department’s research overhead account, the Moore Research Endowment, and other sources.
Note that in all cases, application for the research awards or grants must [...]