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New Virginia Bird Atlas opens window into conservation , articleVirginia Tech and partners unveil a digital atlas mapping decades of bird data to guide conservation, research, and land-use decisions across the commonwealth.
Date: Dec 11, 2025 - -
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‘Curious Conversations’ podcast: Marcella Kelly talks about black bears , articleKelly offers insights on black bear populations in Southwest Virginia, the use of genetic sampling to study bear health, the impact of warm winters on their behavior, and how to navigate human-bear interactions.
Date: Nov 10, 2025 - -
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In search of the Virginia Gray Fox , videoThe Virginia Gray Fox Project is a collaborative effort by the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources and Virginia Tech to map their current distribution and study potential population declines.
Date: Oct 31, 2025 - -
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Saving a salamander may require human intervention , videoVirginia Tech researchers William Hopkins and Erin Hotchkiss and Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources biologists are rearing hellbender salamander eggs in captivity to help stabilize eastern hellbender populations and support long-term population recovery in Virginia. By protecting eggs and juveniles during their most vulnerable stage, the head start approach gives populations a better chance to recover while broader ecological restoration efforts, such as planting riparian buffers and implementing best land management practices, take root.
Date: Oct 28, 2025 - -
Video ItemSaving a salamander may require human intervention , video
Virginia Tech researchers William Hopkins and Erin Hotchkiss and Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources biologists are rearing hellbender salamander eggs in captivity to help stabilize eastern hellbender populations and support long-term population recovery in Virginia. By protecting eggs and juveniles during their most vulnerable stage, the head start approach gives populations a better chance to recover while broader ecological restoration efforts, such as planting riparian buffers and implementing best land management practices, take root.
Date: Oct 17, 2025 - -
Video ItemPreserving the ecosystem of flying squirrels in Appalachia , video
Katie Gorman and Mark Ford with the College of Natural Resources and Environment are collecting data atop Whitetop Mountain in Virginia. For the last two years they have been setting acoustic detectors in the high-elevation red spruce forests to monitor populations of Carolina northern flying squirrels.
Date: Sep 16, 2025 - -
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A closer look at shorebirds | Virginia Tech student's research experience , videoLucy Gehman is an undergraduate student conducting research with the Virginia Tech Shorebird Program run by Dr. Sarah Karpanty. Students who engage in undergraduate research opportunities gain experience to jump start their career after graduation.
Date: Sep 05, 2025 - -
Video ItemUndergraduate student's summer research experience , video
Lucy Gehman is an undergraduate student conducting research with the Virginia Tech Shorebird Program run by Dr. Sarah Karpanty. Students who engage in undergraduate research opportunities gain experience to jump start their career after graduation.
Date: Sep 03, 2025 - -
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Hellbender salamander faces water quality woes , videoVirginia Tech professor William "Bill" Hopkins studies the eastern hellbender salamander and how environmental disasters like Hurricane Helene's floodwaters and anthropogenic factors affect the survival of the species. Undergraduate researchers and alumni from the College of Natural Resources and Environment help facilitate the study in partnership with the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources. Learn more at https://news.vt.edu/
Date: Aug 15, 2025 - -
Video ItemWhen hellbenders thrive, clean water flows downstream , video
Professor William Hopkins and his team, along with the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources, are tracking the species’ survival, studying stream impacts, and using a “head-start” program that raises larvae in captivity before releasing them back into the wild.
Date: Aug 14, 2025 - -
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Wild inside: When veterinary college students help with exotic wildlife , articleThe Veterinary Teaching Hospital at Virginia Tech mainly takes care of domestic pets, but a student-run club helps stabilize wildlife when they are brought in.
Date: Jun 12, 2025 - -
Video ItemPursuing a research-driven career , video
Mikayla Call is a Ph.D. student pursuing a research-driven career in coastal ecosystems and wildlife management. Her research with the Virginia Tech Shorebird Program is part of the Long-Term Ecological Research program in the Virginia Coast Reserve, which is dedicated to understanding how short and long-term factors such as storms and sea-level rise impact ecosystem state changes on Virginia's coastal barrier shoreline.
Date: Mar 04, 2025 - -
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Student applies global experience to a career protecting Virginia's marine resources , articleKylie Harris '24 has always had a passion for conserving the natural environment, but her intern experiences and a job fair at Virginia Tech helped her channel that passion into a career with the Virginia Marine Resources Commission.
Date: Nov 27, 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 - -
Video ItemNASA coastal stabilization study on imperiled shorebirds , video
NASA operates a flight facility at Wallops Island on the Virginia coast. Sarah Karpanty and her students in the College of Natural Resources and Environment are conducting research as part of a five-year project funded by the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources to study the ecological impacts of NASA's shoreline stabilization on imperiled shorebird species that live and migrate along the coast.
Date: Oct 02, 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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Utqiaġvik Migratory Bird Festival connects bird conservation with Indigenous communities in northern Alaska , articleCollege of Natural Resources and Environment Alumna Lindsay Hermanns M.S. ’24 hosted the second annual festival.
Date: Aug 06, 2024 - -
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The virus that causes COVID-19 is widespread in wildlife, Virginia Tech scientists find , articleSix of 23 common wildlife species showed signs of SARS-CoV-2 infections in an examination of animals in Virginia, as revealed by tracking the virus’s genetic code.
Date: Jul 29, 2024 - -
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Students explore evolutionary marvels during a journey to the Galápagos Islands , articleFifteen undergraduate students spent their spring break being inspired by the living laboratory of Charles Darwin.
Date: Jul 18, 2024 - -
Video ItemThe virus that causes COVID-19 is widespread in wildlife, Virginia Tech scientists find , video
An animated simulation of how SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, adapts and mutates to survive in a new host, such as common wildlife.
Date: Jul 16, 2024 -
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