We’re excited to announce that we are now accepting applications for a Communications and Development Assistant until August 15, 2022. Please see below for more details, and feel free to pass this announcement on to anyone who might be interested in applying. Communications and Development Assistant Location: Front Royal, VA Closing: August 15, 2022 Virginia Working Landscapes (VWL), a program of […]
This Month in Conservation Science | July 2022
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Join our Team! | Smithsonian Environmental Justice Postdoctoral Fellow
We’re excited to announce that we are now accepting applications for a Smithsonian Environmental Justice Postdoctoral Fellow, starting on or before March 1, 2023. Please see below for more details, and feel free to pass this announcement on to anyone who might be interested in applying. Smithsonian Fellowships Focus on Climate Change and Environmental Justice Our planet faces unprecedented and […]
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This Month in Conservation Science | June 2022
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2022 Webinar | The Human Dimensions of Conservation
Thank you for joining us on May 25th for our 2022 Emerging Scientist Lecture: “The Human Dimensions of Conservation: How Private Lands Conservation Research Impacts Behavior.” This webinar featured Rachael Green, Smithsonian Research Fellow and Graduate Research Assistant at the Dayer Human Dimensions Lab at Virginia Tech, as she shared new research exploring the human dimensions of private lands conservation. […]
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This Month in Conservation Science | May 2022
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2022 Webinar | Conserving Endangered Plants with Scientific Collections
Thank you for joining us on April 28, 2022 for the webinar: “Conserving Endangered Plants with Scientific Collections” with guest speaker Gary Krupnick, Ph.D., Head of the Plant Conservation Unit in Dept. of Botany at Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. Museum scientific collections are remarkable and irreplaceable sources of information about biodiversity and the history of life on Earth, […]
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This Month in Conservation Science | April 2022
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What’s in Bloom | Yellow Trout Lily
April 11, 2022 Yellow trout lily (Erythronium americanum) is among the many early-blooming spring ephemerals found in moist deciduous forests and woodlands across the Eastern US. The flower can be found blooming in April and May in most counties of Virginia and is relatively common in the mountains and Piedmont, though less common in the Coastal Plain. The plant is […]
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2022 Webinar | Plight of the Pollinator: Conservation Threats and the Natural History of Virginia’s Native Bees
Thank you to those of you who attended this webinar on April 7, 2022. Featured speakers Celia Vuocolo, Private Lands Biologist with Quail Forever and the Natural Resources Conservation Service, and Sam Droege, Wildlife Biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey presented about the conservation threats and natural history of Virginia’s native bees, and what you can do to support them. […]
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