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Dr. Matthew Balazik pulls in a gill net on the James River near Osbourne Landing. All photos by Scott Elmquist

Matt Balazik, Ph.D., the focus of Style Weekly's Sunday with Style

Sept. 23, 2024

Even with decades of research, Atlantic sturgeon remain a puzzle despite having roamed local waters for thousands of years.

A surface geology map of the proposed Massive Australian Precambrian-Cambrian Impact Structure. (Provided by Daniel Connelly)

Australian crater could offer fresh insight into Earth’s geological history

Sept. 20, 2024

VCU’s Arif Sikder of the Center for Environmental Studies is part of the research team that is going back in time – by hundreds of millions of years.

Hickory shad travel together as a school. (Ryan Hagerty/U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)

Conservationists ask Virginia to protect a ‘fish with a lot of fight’

Aug. 28, 2024

Rice Rivers Center Director Greg Garman is interviewed.

Sara Bouchard

Sara Bouchard named FLUXNET artist-in-residence

Aug. 23, 2024

The one-year residency is at the carbon flux tower at VCU Rice Rivers Center.

A group of faculty and students from the Center on Health Disparities come together at Rice Rivers Center

Rice Rivers Center hosts VCU Center on Health Disparities retreat

Aug. 23, 2024

Faculty and students from Monroe Park and Health Campuses discuss intersection between human and environmental health.

Illustration of two prothonotary warblers in a tree, with two people in a canoe in the foreground.

A bird call for wetland health

Aug. 21, 2024

Humans need marshes. The prothonotary warbler can help us save them.

A VCU researcher led a team exploring restoring sturgeon to rivers in the United Kingdom. (Zoological Society of America)

VCU Rice Rivers Center sturgeon specialist takes his expertise from the James River to the U.K.

Aug. 19, 2024

Matt Balazik led a research team assessing two rivers that offer hope for reintroducing the historic and endangered ‘royal fish.’

todd janeski dumping oysters in the river

VOSRP's Janeski selected to MAFMC advisory board

Aug. 9, 2024

His three-year term began July 1, 2024.

Daniella Asnicar and her fellow interns, supervised by rehabilitation staff members, helped clean sea turtles and their tanks, and supported feeding the turtles using techniques based on their condition. (Contributed photo)

In Greece, undergrad Daniella Asnicar helps sea turtles heal and return home

Aug. 6, 2024

The environmental studies major spent five weeks overseas, with support from VCU’s Internship Funding Program.

Photo of Virginia Oyster Shell Recycling Program staff

The Virginia Oyster Shell Recycling Program completes their 2023/2024 season

Aug. 5, 2024

Thousands of shell with spat "planted" in the Piankatank River.

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