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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

James N. Galloway of the University of Virginia, a prescient explorer of nitrogen’s wide-ranging effects on local and global ecosystems, is one of two recipients of the 2008 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement.

Air pollution from power plants and automobiles is destroying the fragrance of flowers and thereby inhibiting the ability of pollinating insects to follow scent trails to their source, a new University of Virginia study indicates.

Todd M. Scanlon, assistant professor of environmental sciences at U.Va., and colleagues used high-resolution satellite imagery to study the prevalence of self-organized vegetation patterns across a regional rainfall gradient in southern Africa.

Graduate student Ami Riscassi was recently awarded a 2008 EPA STAR fellowship for her proposed work on mercury distribution, transport, and transormation in forested headwater catchments.