Feed aggregator

Professional News: October 3, 2012
UVM News
Austin Troy, director of UVM's Transportation Research Center, will give a keynote address at the Yale Forestry School quinquennial reunion, October 19, 2012. The reunion's theme is “Sustainability and the City,” and Troy will speak about his new book ...

Beach Library to celebrate expansion Saturday
Fort Myers Beach Observer
On Saturday, Oct. 13, Donna Rizzo and Donald Holman will offer both a demo and hands-on instructions for making animals from shells. Pre-register and $2 materials fee. Cats, owls and a variety of other animals will be candidates in the making. We have ...

How do blooms begin? Why? What keeps them going? And what makes them toxic - or not? A new, cutting-edge collaboration at UVM aims to answer the riddles.

Trees can help police urban neighborhoods
Boston.com (blog)
“It's just an association,” said co-author Austin Troy, now at the University of Vermont. “But it's a very strong association.” Another study in 2012, using different methodologies found similar results in Portland, Ore. In 2011, a Philadelphia study ...

Venomous Snakes Harbor Deadly Brain-Swelling Virus  LiveScience.com

Photo: Tom Sistak
MyWebTimes.com
Scarecrow contest winners included Illinois Valley Cellular, Covel Creek Rough Riders 4-H Club, Team Tyler, Illinois Valley E-Free Church and Brandy and Jason Stockwell. Photo: Tom Sistak "Mickey the Facepainter" creates a unique look on Josephine ...

Betty Ann Johnson
Daily Herald
She then married Troy Johnson together raising their two children Angelica Rose and Austin Troy. They were the joy of Betty's life and she always wanted the best for them. She also had a son Bronson and Joe Joe who she always has yearned to be with.

Vermont Public Radio
Drought Conditions Linger Underground, In Vermont Water Supplies
Vermont Public Radio
The National Weather Service reports the dry conditions have now popped up in the northern part of the state - something Dupigny-Giroux says is quite abnormal. "It's usually the southeastern part of the state that tends to be more drought-prone," she said.

Vermont Public Radio
Drought Conditions Linger Underground, In Vermont Water Supplies
Vermont Public Radio
The National Weather Service reports the dry conditions have now popped up in the northern part of the state - something Dupigny-Giroux says is quite abnormal. "It's usually the southeastern part of the state that tends to be more drought-prone," she said.

Sen. Roy McDonald to leave race after losing GOP Primary
North Country Public Radio
Natural Selections: Did a dinosaur drink my water? Sep 27, 2012 — In an earlier conversation on the natural world, Martha Foley and Dr. Curt Stager talked about the longevity of atoms, and how atoms within our body... Story Begins. Photo: NYSenate.gov ...

and more »

Special report: A look inside Moriah Shock Prison
North Country Public Radio
... giving it the feel of an... Natural Selections: Did a dinosaur drink my water? Sep 27, 2012 — In an earlier conversation on the natural world, Martha Foley and Dr. Curt Stager talked about the longevity of atoms, and how atoms within our body ...

NCPR is supported by:
North Country Public Radio
Sep 27, 2012 — In an earlier conversation on the natural world, Martha Foley and Dr. Curt Stager talked about the longevity of atoms, and how atoms within our body... Thursday's news briefs from the Associated Press. Sep 27, 2012 — The New York ...

and more »

DiNapoli offers "early warning" for troubled local govs
North Country Public Radio
Sep 27, 2012 — In an earlier conversation on the natural world, Martha Foley and Dr. Curt Stager talked about the longevity of atoms, and how atoms within our body... Thursday's news briefs from the Associated Press. Sep 27, 2012 — The New York ...

and more »

Trudeau partners with Chinese hospital on TB research
North Country Public Radio
Sep 27, 2012 — In an earlier conversation on the natural world, Martha Foley and Dr. Curt Stager talked about the longevity of atoms, and how atoms within our body... Thursday's news briefs from the Associated Press. Sep 27, 2012 — The New York ...

North Country Public Radio
Natural Selections: Did a dinosaur drink my water?
North Country Public Radio
Paul Smiths, NY, Sep 27, 2012 — In an earlier conversation on the natural world, Martha Foley and Dr. Curt Stager talked about the longevity of atoms, and how atoms within our body may have once been in the bodies of dinosaurs. But the question ...

and more »

Veteran journalist urges new take on climate change
North Country Public Radio
Sep 27, 2012 — In an earlier conversation on the natural world, Martha Foley and Dr. Curt Stager talked about the longevity of atoms, and how atoms within our body... Thursday's news briefs from the Associated Press. Sep 27, 2012 — The New York ...

and more »

Veronica Sosa-Gonzalez first came to the University of Vermont (UVM) as an Undergraduate Intern through the VT EPSCoR Streams Project in the summer of 2009 from the University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras (UPR) where she was an Environmental Sciences major. The strong partnership between Vermont EPSCoR and the University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras was cultivated through the VT Streams Project; created and launched in 2007 under NSF EPS#0701410.

After obtaining her BS from UPR, Veronica successfully applied to the Department of Geology graduate program at the University of Vermont and obtained her Master’s Degree in Natural Resources with a concentration in Aquatic Ecology and Watershed Science in 2012. Veronica successfully defended her Master’s Thesis entitled:
Determining Long Term Erosion Rates in Panama: An Application of 10BE. Her research is on the determination of background erosion rates in Panama, and exploring physiographic controls on erosion in tropical climates.

Natural Selections: Ancient water?
North Country Public Radio
Paul Smiths, NY, Sep 27, 2012 — In an earlier conversation on the natural world, Martha Foley and Dr. Curt Stager talked about the longevity of atoms, and how atoms within our body may have once been in the bodies of dinosaurs. But that is much less ...

Thursday's news briefs from the Associated Press
North Country Public Radio
Sep 27, 2012 — In an earlier conversation on the natural world, Martha Foley and Dr. Curt Stager talked about the longevity of atoms, and how atoms within our body... Local farmers open their gardens, barns for tours. Sep 27, 2012 — It's harvest ...

and more »

Chad readers raising money for Guide Dogs for the Blind Fund - £2470.59 ...
Mansfield Chad
Loved and remembered always” from loving wife Marjorie, and £10 “birthday memories 1st October of Alan Betts. Thinking of you. Love from Jessie, Rita, Wesley and Phillip. Making a contribution towards the £2,500 target for dog No 287 could not be ...

and more »