New River Watershed Research
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Reducing Sediment in Stroubles Creek, Blacksburg, VA
(2017-04-30)Upstream urbanization, stream channelization, and livestock access have resulted in significant sediment loading to Stroubles Creek, resulting in a benthic macroinvertebrate community impairment. Developed in 2006, the ... -
Service Learning on the River: Educating for Sustainability in the NRV
(New River Symposium, 2017-05-16)The New River is influenced by a variety of pressures ranging from economic development and attendant environmental impacts, to changing community expectations and choices, to infrastructure investments by local government. ... -
Natural history, threats, and current research related to Candy Darter (Etheostoma osburni) in Virginia
(New River Symposium, 2017-05-16)The candy darter (Etheostoma osburni) is a small riffle-dwelling, non-game fish species endemic to the New River drainage in Virginia and West Virginia. It is narrowly restricted to medium-size streams with cold-cool ... -
Community and Sustainability Along the New River
(New River Symposium, 2017-05-16)In 2016, students at Appalachian State University partnered with the New River Conservancy (NRC) on a series of projects designed to celebrate the NRC’s 40th anniversary and to highlight current issues in the upper New ... -
The National Park Service in Southern West Virginia
(New River Symposium, 2017-05-16)The National Park Service manages three units in southern West Virginia, New River Gorge National River, Gauley River National Recreation Area, and Bluestone National Scenic River. All three units were designated for their ... -
ReNew the New: An Approach for Regional River Clean-ups on the New River
(New River Symposium, 2017-05-16)In August 2016, the New River Valley successfully held its first regional river clean-up event in Radford, called “Fall into the New.” Four hundred volunteers and representatives from Floyd, Giles, Montgomery, and Pulaski ... -
Marker-assisted restoration of native New River walleye
(New River Symposium, 2017-05-16)Walleye (Sander vitreus) is an important game fish in the Upper New River, with March and April walleye fishing effort from Buck Dam to Claytor Lake increasing from 49 to 66% of total fishing effort between 2007 and 2016. ... -
Eastern Hellbender
(New River Symposium, 2017-05-16)Program will include a presentation about the natural history of the Eastern Hellbender. Following will be a discussion about the baseline study results concerning the Eastern Hellbender's population in the South Fork New ... -
The Stroubles Creek Watershed: History of Development and Chronicles of Research
(New River Symposium, 2017-05-16)Dr. Younos launched the Stroubles Creek Watershed Initiative in 1999. The major goal of the Initiative was to provide research, educational, and service-learning opportunities to Virginia Tech students. A secondary goal ... -
Watauga High School Rain Garden—A Community Partnership
(New River Symposium, 2017-05-16)Ongoing urban development in the Town of Boone has meant increasing coverage of pavement and other impervious surfaces. Local tributaries of the South Fork New River, like Hardin Creek, show symptoms of “urban stream ... -
Combined statistical and spatially distributed hydrological model for evaluating future drought indices in Virginia
(Elsevier, 2017-06-06)Study region: Virginia, United States. Study focus: Climate change is expected to impact the intensity and severity of droughts; therefore, it is necessary to simulate future drought conditions using temperature and ... -
Managing Muskellunge in the New River, Virginia: Effective Regulations and Predation on Smallmouth Bass
(Virginia Tech, 2017-04-21)Potential predation between fishes of recreational interest has incited many bitter conflicts between angler groups. Large predators, such as esocids, are often at the center of these conflicts because of their capacity ... -
Evolution of transient topography on passive margins: A study of landscape disequilibrium in the southern Appalachian Mountains
(Virginia Tech, 2011-04-22)The mechanism through which the Appalachian Mountains have maintained moderate relief some ~300 Myr after the cessation of mountain building has long puzzled geomorphologists. As recent studies have shown that Appalachian ... -
Genetic evaluation of walleye (Stizostedion vitreum vitreum) stock structure and recruitment in Claytor Lake, Virginia
(Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1981) -
An integrated approach to pollution control
(Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1986) -
Alteration and recovery of a stream macroinvertebrate community exposed to fly ash effluent and an analysis of the causative factors
(Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1985) -
Ecology and energetics of an aquatic detritivore, Pteronarcys proteus (Plecoptera: Pteronarcyidae)
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Thermal pollution modeling of the New River
(Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1976) -
Studies of Mountain Lake, Virginia with particular reference to physical limnology and profundal bottom fauna
(Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1963) -
Time and duration of spawning by smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieui) in the New River drainage
(Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1984)
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