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National security leaders tour Virginia Tech talent and technology , articleU.S. Sen. Mark Warner and Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines visited Virginia Tech’s National Security Institute to collect faculty insights on cutting-edge research and visit with students already working in these spaces.
Date: Dec 12, 2024 -
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Tech and tactics unite to outsmart stealthy submarines , articleFunded by a grant from the Office of Naval Research, a collaboration between Virginia Tech and the United States Naval Academy aims to ensure the Navy can make the best use of its resources to track enemy submarines in vast ocean areas while staying ahead of emerging threats.
Date: Dec 09, 2024 -
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Virginia Tech researchers continue to innovate underwater robotics missions with support from the Office of Naval Research , articleFor more than two decades, Virginia Tech’s Center for Marine Autonomy and Robotics has been developing robots that can find what lies beneath the sea surface with the support of the Office of Naval Research.
Date: Dec 04, 2024 -
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Virginia Tech salamander expert joins 'Wild Kratts' for a creature adventure , articleThe Kratt brothers, host of the popular PBS show "Wild Kratts," turned to wildlife expert Bill Hopkins to show off the hellbender salamander for a Nov. 4 episode. Check local listings for times.
Date: Oct 31, 2024 -
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A watershed moment for the survival of imperiled Appalachian salamanders , articleIn partnership with the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources, Virginia Tech researchers received a $2 million science-guided conservation award from a joint venture of the National Science Foundation and the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation.
Date: Aug 20, 2024 -
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Subduction zone splay faults compound hazards of great earthquakes , articleGroundbreaking research has provided new insight into the tectonic plate shifts that create some of the Earth’s largest earthquakes and tsunamis.
Date: May 20, 2024 -
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Researchers confirm scale matters in determining vulnerability of freshwater fish to climate changes , articlePh.D. student Samuel Silknetter and Associate Professor Meryl Mims recently led a team that explored the influence the spatial extent of research – the geographical coverage of data collected – has on evaluating the sensitivity of fish species to climate change.
Date: May 16, 2024 -
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Memories of fishers reach beyond the data , articleA research team led by Associate Professor Leandro Castelli demonstrates that local knowledge of past harvests can provide an accurate – and affordable – depiction of historical fish stocks.
Date: Apr 16, 2024 -
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New center showcases Virginia Tech's strengths in global sustainability , articleCayelan Carey and Quinn Thomas, co-directors of the Virginia Tech Center for Ecosystem Forecasting, are striving to stay ahead of ecological hazards and broadly extending their efforts to encompass partners both home and abroad.
Date: Apr 09, 2024 -
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Low oxygen in lakes may breathe new life into conservation efforts for water quality , articleAbigail Lewis and her international team analyzed 656 lakes across five continents to provide empirical evidence supporting a long-held theory regarding low deep-water oxygen concentrations, or anoxia.
Date: Feb 15, 2024 -
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Virginia Tech joins climate resilience partnership to serve the commonwealth , articleVirginia Tech joins the University of Virginia and Old Dominion University to help communities bolster their climate resiliency by anticipating threats, reducing community vulnerabilities, and respond to and recover from hazardous events and chronic stresses.
Date: Jan 11, 2024 -
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Transatlantic project works to fortify coastal resilience against rising seas , articleSherif Abdelaziz is part of a PIONEER project that will do laboratory tests in collaboration with researchers in Scotland to keep coastal areas safe from flooding.
Date: Jan 04, 2024 -
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A new approach to creating an ancient tree of life , articleCarolina Martinez-Gutierrez and Frank Aylward have created a genetic tree that establishes a timeline for when 13 clades – the lineages of bacteria and archaea – colonized in the ocean.
Date: Dec 14, 2023 -
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Rising seas mean less space for people and nature , articleVirginia Tech researchers will merge social and geographic information system science to investigate how coastal communities and ecosystems will migrate because of sea-level rise.
Date: Oct 11, 2023