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        <description><![CDATA[ Graduate and undergraduate students took the lead in reviewing global studies on marine debris, uncovering overlooked sources of ocean trash and pointing toward actionable remedies. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A team led by Virginia Tech graduate student Samuel Daramola developed a deep learning model called LSTM-SAM that predicts extreme water levels from tropical cyclones more efficiently and accurately, especially in data-scarce coastal regions, to offer a faster, low-cost tool for flood forecasting. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A powerful earthquake combined with rising sea levels could significantly increase flood risks in the Pacific Northwest, impacting thousands of residents and properties in northern California, Oregon, and Washington, according to new Virginia Tech research. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Pacific Island nations such as Tuvalu, Kiribati, and Fiji will experience at least 6 inches of sea level rise by 2050, according to recent analysis by NASA’s sea level change science team, which includes Virginia Tech researchers.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Kimberly Prather, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and distinguished professor at the University of California San Diego’s Scripps Institute of Oceanography, will give a talk titled “From Water to Air: How Pollution Impacts Air Quality and Health in Coastal Regions&#34; on Sept. 26. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A research team led by Anamaria Bukvic in the Department of Geography received a $2 million grant from the Department of Defense to evaluate how efforts to adapt to climate change affects population mobility in coastal areas in the Indo-Pacific. ]]></description>
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        <title>Collaborative research to benefit coastal flounder populations and fishers</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Faculty in the College of Natural Resources and Environment have received $1.79 million from the National Science Foundation for an interdisciplinary research project that will examine the dynamics of socio-environmental factors impacting coastal fisheries. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Professors Austin Gray and Tina Dura created a unique summer research program to train future environmental scientists. Students traveled to a marsh ecosystem, collected samples, and analyzed them for microplastics at Virginia Tech. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced that the Department of Commerce and NOAA have recommended $1.97 million for a project in Virginia to make the state’s coast more resilient to climate change and other coastal hazards.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ College of Natural Resources and Environment Alumna Lindsay Hermanns M.S. ’24 hosted the second annual festival. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Professors Austin Gray and Tina Dura have developed the first microplastics summer research experience of its kind to train the next generation of environmental scientists, with intended ripple effects to impact government policy and help protect ocean ecosystems. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Pamplin College of Business Professor Chris Zobel has developed a model to enable infrastructure managers to consider social vulnerabilities and projected sea level rise to optimize resource allocation. ]]></description>
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        <title>&#39;Curious Conversations&#39; podcast: Ryan Pollyea talks about geologic carbon sequestration</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Geologic carbon sequestration is the process of permanently storing carbon dioxide thousands of feet below the Earth’s surface. Pollyea explained what types of rock this is currently known to work with, the efforts he and his colleagues are taking to expand this to other geologic regions, and the potential impact that could have for the environment and economics.   ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A 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.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Undergraduate Research Fellowships are helping students in the College of Natural Resources and Environment take their education into their own hands. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia 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. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech researchers will merge social and geographic information system science to investigate how coastal communities and ecosystems will migrate because of sea-level rise. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech researchers use geospatial data to understand shark catch and mortality rates in ocean sanctuaries, a critical step in merging data science with conservation efforts.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The National Science Foundation has awarded a $15 million grant over five years for the establishment of the Cascadia Region Earthquake Science Center, and Tina Dura is the principal investigator for Virginia Tech. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Researchers in the College of Natural Resources and Environment are collaborating with the fishing industry to better understand the population and distribution of summer flounder. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Cascadia Subduction Zone fault line last experienced an earthquake in 1700. Some 300 years later, geoscientist Tina Dura and her team are taking core samples to reconstruct the seismic history of the coastal region to help its residents prepare for the next earthquake and resulting tsunami and flooding. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ New research by Virginia Tech scientists shows that sections of the Chesapeake Bay are sinking at rates of nearly a quarter an inch — or 7 millimeters — a year. Further, up-to-date knowledge of where the ground in the Chesapeake Bay area is sinking and by how much is not included in the official planning maps that authorities use to assess the local flooding risk from rising sea levels, the researchers said. ]]></description>
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        <title>NASA grant to fund critical research on sea-level rise in Virginia</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2023/03/cnre-nasa-sea-level-rise-grant.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ A collaborative research team  will seek to understand how rising sea levels will impact coastal communities, merging social science with geospatial information to help Virginia communities adapt to a changing landscape. ]]></description>
        <pubDate>Wed, 29 Mar 2023 06:52:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Researchers in the College of Natural Resources and the Environment contribute to research aligning fisheries management with shark and ray conservation. ]]></description>
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        <title>Virginia Seafood Industry Boosts State’s Economy by $1.1 Billion</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Virginia seafood industry is one of the oldest industries in the United States and one of the commonwealth’s largest. The economic contributions of this industry exceeded $1.1 billion for the commonwealth in 2019, according to a new economic impact analysis conducted by the Virginia Seafood Agricultural Research and Extension Center of Virginia Tech. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Anne Staples, associate professor in Virginia Tech&#39;s Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics, was one of the first researchers to use computational methods to study ocean flows through coral branches.  ]]></description>
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        <title>Taking pulse: Researcher addresses knowledge gaps in shark and ray research</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2022/03/fralinlifesci-ferretti-shark-review.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ Francesco Ferretti, an assistant professor in the Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation in the College of Natural Resources and Environment, polled an international team of scientists and practitioners to take a pulse of the greatest issues that are present in shark research, marine conservation, and fisheries science.   ]]></description>
        <pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2022 09:22:00 -0500</pubDate>
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        <title>Robert Weiss named director of Academy of Integrated Science in College of Science</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The academy was started in 2011 by the late Lay Nam Chang, then dean of the College of Science, with the mission of exploring powerful new approaches to current complex scientific problems.  ]]></description>
        <pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2022 09:21:00 -0500</pubDate>
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        <title>New research makes waves tackling the future of tsunami monitoring and modeling </title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ New research by Assistant Professor Tina Dura and Professor Robert Weiss, both of the College of Science&#39;s Department of Geosciences, warns that future tsunamis might become more catastrophic as sea levels rise. ]]></description>
        <pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2021 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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        <title>Combating antibiotic resistance with data-driven surveillance</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A team of Virginia Tech researchers was recently awarded a National Science Foundation Research Traineeship grant to provide graduate students with skills that are needed to develop and launch successful wastewater surveillance for public health monitoring and protection.   ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Since 2019, civil and environmental engineering graduate student Nick Brilli has participated in the U.S. Coastal Research Program’s During Nearshore Event Experience project in Duck, North Carolina, to help develop better methods for characterizing the erodibility of coastal sediments. ]]></description>
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        <title>Geologists look to past for answers on future tsunami threats</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2021/09/science_Dura_geologists_look_to_past.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ Tina Dura’s Coastal Hazards Lab uses sand beds deposited by tsunamis and preserved in coastal environments to reconstruct past tsunami inundation over hundreds to thousands of years, helping better define coastal hazards in a region. ]]></description>
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        <title>College of Natural Resources and Environment welcomes new faculty members</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Elizabeth Hunter has recently joined the Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation and the Virginia Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, and Eranga Galappaththi will join the Department of Geography. ]]></description>
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        <title>Virginia Tech professor and Discovery Channel team up on a great white shark research expedition in the Mediterranean</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Led by Assistant Professor Francesco Ferretti, the team is seeking to become the first to tag a Mediterranean great white shark, one of the most endangered and least known white shark populations globally. ]]></description>
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        <title>Freshwater salt pollution threatens ecosystem health and human water security</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2021/04/04-15-21-Fralin-Life-Sci-Nature-Sustainability-salt-pollution.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ One in eight people on the planet lack access to clean water, and drivers of freshwater salt pollution such as de-icers on roads and parking lots, water softeners, and wastewater and industrial discharges further threaten freshwater ecosystem health and human water security. Researchers from Virginia Tech have recently published their findings on salt pollution in Nature Sustainability. ]]></description>
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        <title>Biodiversity, fishing, and the environment: thinking globally to protect our oceans</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Researchers estimate that 90 percent of the ocean’s biodiversity could be preserved by strategically protecting just 21 percent of the ocean, and that protecting high-priority areas would have significant ramifications for critically endangered ocean species. ]]></description>
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        <title>Warmer mountaintops, wetter coasts</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Lynn Resler and Anamaria Bukvic investigate how climate change affects two vastly different ecosystems. ]]></description>
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        <title>The human dimensions of water</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Luke Juran’s research ranges from flooding and drought in India to residential water quality in Virginia. ]]></description>
        <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2020 12:41:00 -0500</pubDate>
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