Forest Biogeochemistry and Hydrology Assistantship: Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Fluxes in Response to Cellulosic Biofuel Systems

July 4, 2013 / Assistantships / By

Graduate Research Assistantship Forest Biogeochemistry and Hydrology Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Fluxes along the Hillslope-Riparian-Stream Continuum in Response to Cellulosic Biofuel Systems The Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation and the Virginia Water Resources Research Center at Virginia Tech are seeking applicants for a graduate research assistantship position in Forest Biogeochemistry and Hydrology at …

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Cody graduates…

May 24, 2019 / Lab news / By

Congratulations to Cody for completing his M.S. degree! Today Cody participated in the Spring Commencement Graduate Ceremony after having his final thesis approved by the Graduate School earlier in the month.  Way to go Cody!

World Water Day – March 22, 2013

May 24, 2019 / Popular news / By

Tomorrow is World Water Day.  This event is held annually on 22 March as a means of focusing attention on the importance of freshwater and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources.  This year we are celebrating the United Nations International Year of Water Cooperation.  Happy World Water Day!

US-Japan Joint meeting

May 24, 2019 / Meetings / By

I had a great week with colleagues from the US and Japan at the 4th US-Japan Joint meeting on hydrology.  We had a productive week that set us on course for some cross-site synthesis research and paper writing.  Thank you to everyone for making it fun and productive.  The photo above is from a hike …

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Ready for Hawaii: US-Japan Joint Seminar

February 28, 2013 / Meetings, Seminars / By

The US-Japan Joint Seminar on Catchment Hydrology and Forest Biogeochemistry is next week.  We’re ready for it!  The revised program is posted and it looks to be an exciting week.  Stay tuned and we’ll update you on the outcomes.

Hydrological Processes Special Issue on North-Watch

February 23, 2013 / Project update, Research paper / By

A special issue of the journal Hydrological Processes called “Catchments in the future North: interdisciplinary science for sustainable management in the 21st Century” reports on the results from our North-Watch project.  This is a great collection of papers on the future of northern watershed hydrology and how these systems respond to changing climate.  Dr. McGuire is …

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Why do people blow the punchline in scientitic talks? The destructive effect of acknowledgements slides

February 9, 2013 / Communication, ReBlog, Seminars / By

Reblog from Writing in Science There are great points made in this blog post on the use of acknowledgements in talks.  This blog generally has great advice. “Last words are our strongest. That’s why the punchline comes at the end of the joke and the conclusions at the end of a presentation. The conclusion slide …

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Winter Coweeta visit

May 24, 2019 / Meetings / By

  We had a great meeting this week at the Coweeta Hydrologic Lab.  Rhett Jackson organized this photo of the hydrologists at the meeting.  It is really amazing to think of the rich research history of this place and what it has meant to the field of hydrology.  

1000th water sample

February 6, 2013 / Field work / By

Last week on our Hydropedology Project, Scott collected the 1000th water sample from watershed 3 at Hubbard Brook. This is quite a milestone!

Hiring 7 new faculty in water at Virginia Tech!

February 5, 2013 / News / By

We are expanding here on the Virginia Tech campus in the area of water through addition of seven new full‐time, nine‐month, tenure-track faculty members!!!  We currently have over 80 faculty in water resources many (not all) of which are listed on our VWRRC website. These positions show the university’s commitment to maintaining excellence in programming and research …

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