Virginia Water Resources Research Center: Addressing Water Challenges and Opportunities

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Stephen Schoenholtz
Director, Virginia Water Resources Research Center, and Professor, Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, Virginia Tech

Date/Time: Wednesday, November 4, 2015 / 12:00 - 1:15 p.m. 

Sustainable management of water resources presents unprecedented and rapidly expanding challenges at multiple spatial and temporal scales. It connect society and environment through energy, food, climate, ecological, health, and economic systems. Meeting these challenges requires interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary strategies. This seminar will provide a brief overview of the role of the Virginia Water Resources Research Center in addressing water challenges through innovative training, information transfer, and research approaches. 

Stephen is Director of the Virginia Water Resources Research Center and Professor of Forest Hydrology and Soils in the College of Natural Resources and Environment at Virginia Tech. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the National Institutes for Water Resources as President-Elect. Dr. Schoenholtz has an active research and teaching program focusing on interactions between land management and water and soil resources, in which he has supervised 38 graduate students, garnered more than $6 million in research funding, and published approximately 100 papers and book chapters to date. He has also taught 15 different undergraduate and graduate courses; and he coordinates a new undergraduate interdisciplinary B.S. degree in Water: Resources, Policy, and Management at Virginia Tech. Dr. Schoenholtz holds B.S. degrees in Forest Science and Biology from the Pennsylvania State University, and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Forest Soil Science from Virginia Tech.