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SUMMARY:Science Talk! Northern Bobwhite Quail and Managing Land for Wildlife
DESCRIPTION:The first Science Talk of the 2026-27 Season will be presented on Tuesday\, September 8th\, at 7 PM at the Wayne Theatre by Caty McVicker\, a Wildlife Biologist with Quail Forever. Since the 1960s\, Northern bobwhite populations in Virginia have been in steep decline. Caty’s presentation will cover the natural lifecycle and habitat requirements of northern bobwhite\, and then discuss ways to help improve habitat in order to restore bobwhite and other grassland bird populations. \n \nThe presentation will be livestreamed from the Wayne Theatre and Virginia Museum of Natural History Facebook pages. Afterwards\, it will be posted as a video on these Facebook pages and on https://www.youtube.com/@thecenterforcoldwatersrest6681.
URL:https://southriverwatershed.org/event/science-talk-northern-bobwhite-quail-and-managing-land-for-wildlife/
LOCATION:The Wayne Theatre\, 521 West Main Street\, Waynesboro\, Virginia\, 22980
CATEGORIES:Featured,Science Talks
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SUMMARY:Science Talk! Forest Forensics with Chris Bolgiano
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Wayne Theatre on Tuesday\, April 21st at 7 pm for Chris Bolgiano’s Science Talk Forest Forensics: Finding Clues to the Past in Our Woods Today. \nWell over a century after the establishment of national forests across the Appalachian Mountains\, their origin story has faded from common memory. After all\, trees blanket our mountains down into hollows and up over ridges far into the blue distance. But as William Faulkner said\, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” The past of our forests remains very much present today\, and will for centuries to come. This talk will illustrate why. \nChris Bolgiano joined the Library Faculty of then-Madison College in 1974. Upon getting tenure\, she promptly resigned to become a freelance writer. James Madison University graciously saved her from starving by hiring her as Adjunct Faculty to develop a Library Special Collections Department. This played right into her hands by giving her authority to identify\, collect and study the historical resources that inform her writing. Now long retired\, she cultivates JMU’s excellent Special Collections and Reference Librarians. \nAbout the Science Talk Series:\nThe Wayne Theatre presents “Science Talks” in partnership with the Virginia Museum of Natural History as part of its Signature Speaker Series. The South River Watershed Coalition is a proud sponsor of Science Talks. \nScience Talks begin at 7:00 pm with a presentation and then time for questions and answers. The total time is about an hour. \nAdmission is free\, but donations are gratefully accepted to support future Science Talks. You can also support the non-profit Wayne Theatre by purchasing drinks and snacks. \nClick here to find more information on upcoming talks and tickets. \nIf you can’t make it in person\, livestream it on both the Wayne Theatre and VMNH Facebook pages. \nYou can also view all our past Science Talks on the Virginia Museum of Natural History YouTube Channel.
URL:https://southriverwatershed.org/event/science-talk-forest-forensics-with-chris-bolgiano/
LOCATION:The Wayne Theatre\, 521 West Main Street\, Waynesboro\, Virginia\, 22980
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Featured,Science Talks
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SUMMARY:Science Talk! Native Bees in Local Landscapes with UVA's T'ai Roulston
DESCRIPTION:Appreciating and Promoting Native Bees in Local Landscapes with T’ai Roulston\nMarch 17\, 2026\, 7 pm at the Wayne Theatre \nTopic: \nThe University of Virginia’s T’ai Roulston will highlight research on and explore the natural history of Virginia’s native bee species. Wild bee species pollinate the bulk of native plants in Virginia’s wild areas\, are the most frequent pollinators of home gardens\, and often dominate pollination on small farms. They work alongside European honey bees pollinating major crops on large farms\, but only if the broader landscape supports their populations. This talk will describe some of the different life histories of native bee species\, the challenges they face in our landscape\, and some things we can do to help keep them around. \nSpeaker: \nT’ai H. Roulston is a research associate professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia and the Curator of the State Arboretum in Boyce\, Virginia. He has worked with UVA for 25 years\, and his research focuses primarily on insect ecology and conservation. Professor Roulston and collaborators have found and mapped a population of the endangered rusty patched bumble bee in the mountains between West Virginia and Virginia\, a population widely separated from its larger population in the upper Midwest. He and his graduate student Kate LeCroy have documented the declines of native mason bees in the Mid Atlantic with the proliferation of non-native mason bees. He is now undertaking a project to document remaining butternut trees in Virginia and determine if there any pockets of remaining trees showing resistance to butternut canker\, the primary disease killing them. \nAn arboretum is a plot of land on which many different trees or shrubs are grown for study or display. The State Arboretum of Virginia stands in the central 172 acres of Blandy Experimental Farm\, located in Boyce\, VA (near Winchester). Visitors can explore labelled tree and shrub collections that date back the early 1930’s from all over the world. Learn more at: https://blandy.virginia.edu/state-arboretum-virginia \n  \nAbout the Science Talk Series:\nThe Wayne Theatre presents “Science Talks” in partnership with the Virginia Museum of Natural History as part of its Signature Speaker Series. The South River Watershed Coalition is a proud sponsor of Science Talks. \nScience Talks begin at 7:00 pm with a presentation and then time for questions and answers. The total time is about an hour. \nAdmission is free\, but donations are gratefully accepted to support future Science Talks. You can also support the non-profit Wayne Theatre by purchasing drinks and snacks. \nClick here to find more information on upcoming talks and tickets. \nIf you can’t make it in person\, livestream it on both the Wayne Theatre and VMNH Facebook pages. \nYou can also view all our past Science Talks on the Virginia Museum of Natural History YouTube Channel.
URL:https://southriverwatershed.org/event/science-talk-native-bees-in-local-landscapes-with-uvas-tai-roulston/
LOCATION:The Wayne Theatre\, 521 West Main Street\, Waynesboro\, Virginia\, 22980
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Featured,Science Talks
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SUMMARY:Science Talk! Rare and Unique Plants of Augusta County and the Central Appalachian Mountains with Chris Ludwig and Gary Fleming
DESCRIPTION:Chris Ludwig\, former Chief Biologist for the State of Virginia\, and Gary P. Fleming\, Ecologist Emeritus with the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation Division of Natural Heritage\, will give a Science Talk about the Rare and Unique Plants of Augusta County and the Central Appalachian Mountains in Virginia \nTuesday\, February 17th\, 2026 @ 7 PM Historic Wayne Theatre \nStay tuned for more information closer to the date. \nThe Wayne Theatre in Waynesboro presents “Science Talks” in partnership with the Virginia Museum of Natural History as part of its Signature Speaker Series. The South River Watershed Coalition is a proud sponsor of the Signature Speaker Series. \nAll of these events begin at 7:00 p.m. with a presentation and time for questions and answers. \nAdmission is free – donate what you will. Drinks and snacks are available for purchase from the Wayne Theatre. \nClick here to find more information on upcoming talks and tickets. \nThe Science and History Talks are among a handful of fun and educational opportunities you can also watch virtually. \nBe sure to check out all our past Science Talks on the Virginia Museum of Natural History YouTube Channel. \nUpcoming Dates\nTuesday\, Mar 17 \nT’ai Roulston\, Curator & Research Associate Professor\, University of Virginia Blandy Experimental Farm and State Arboretum \nResearch on Bees \nTuesday\, Apr 21 \nSpeaker and Topic TBD
URL:https://southriverwatershed.org/event/rare-and-unique-plants-of-augusta-county-and-the-central-appalachian-mountains-with-chris-ludwig-and-gary-fleming/
LOCATION:The Wayne Theatre\, 521 West Main Street\, Waynesboro\, Virginia\, 22980
CATEGORIES:Featured,Science Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260120T190000
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SUMMARY:Science Talk! Storytelling and Watershed Science: Premiering “Chessie’s Big Adventure”
DESCRIPTION:Storytelling and Watershed Science: Premiering “Chessie’s Big Adventure” \nUpdate: the first 50 people to arrive at the Wayne Theatre will receive a small “Chessie” duckie! Tell your friends! \nYellow rubber duckie with SRWC logo – first 50 arrivals to the Science Talk get one free!\nHigh in the Blue Ridge Mountains south of Waynesboro\, water begins its journey to the Chesapeake Bay. To illustrate the hydrologic* connection made by the South River\, a rubber duck named “Chessie” travels the length of the South River and beyond. \nTogether with videographer David Verde\, the South River Watershed Coalition (SRWC) produced this video to teach the science of watersheds through storytelling. Inspired by a 1960s film called “Paddle To The Sea”\, our story uses Chessie\, a character we follow on an adventure from the headwaters of South River over 300 miles to the ocean. Along the way\, Chessie encounters landscapes\, wildlife\, and communities connected by rivers and their history. \nIn addition to premiering the 20-minute video\, videographer David Verde and SRWC President Tom Benzing will explain the production process. In addition\, the SRWC has secured the rights from the National Film Board of Canada to show “Paddle To The Sea”\, the inspiration for this production. \n*hydrologic: dealing with the occurrence\, circulation\, distribution\, and properties of the waters of the earth and its atmosphere. \nAngel David Verde is a full-time filmmaker and award winning visual creative. He has over 15 years experience in TV\, Film\, production\, founding DV Entertainment in 2010. He specializes in non-fiction story driven projects\, outdoor adventure\, and natural history and conservancy films and videos. David has been working alongside Dave Hirschman and the South River Watershed Coalition since the inception of the South River Currents video series starting in 2020. The mission\, goals\, and outreach the videos produced for the SRWC aim to achieve\, strike a deeply personal and fulfilling chord that David and his team feel truly privileged to get to be a part of. \nOutside of his professional endeavors\, David is an avid waterman and passionate outdoors person\, a Honduran Immigrant\, and a U.S. Air Force Veteran. In his spare time\, he enjoys whitewater standup paddle boarding\, river surfing\, scuba diving\, skiing\, amateur astronomy\, and letterpress printmaking. \nTom Benzing\, SRWC President\, lives on Porterfield Run\, his watershed address on a small tributary to the South River in Augusta County. He is Professor Emeritus at James Madison University’s School of Integrated Sciences and serves as a trustee on the board of the Virginia Museum of Natural History. He enjoys fishing\, hiking\, and traveling. \nThe Wayne Theatre in Waynesboro presents “Science Talks” in partnership with the Virginia Museum of Natural History as part of its Signature Speaker Series. The South River Watershed Coalition is a proud sponsor of the Signature Speaker Series. \nAll of these events begin at 7:00 p.m. with a presentation and time for questions and answers. \nAdmission is pay what you will. Drinks and snacks are available for purchase from the Wayne Theatre. \nClick here to find more information on upcoming talks and tickets. \nThe Science and History Talks are among a handful of fun and educational opportunities you can also watch virtually. \nBe sure to check out all our past Science Talks on the Virginia Museum of Natural History YouTube Channel.
URL:https://southriverwatershed.org/event/science-talk-storytelling-and-watershed-science-premiering-chessies-big-adventure/
LOCATION:The Wayne Theatre\, 521 West Main Street\, Waynesboro\, Virginia\, 22980
CATEGORIES:Featured,Science Talks
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SUMMARY:Science Talk! John E. Ross: Here’s to the Weather Warriors!
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, November 11th\, at 7 pm for a special Veteran’s Day Science Talk at the Wayne Theatre. \nJohn E. Ross will give a talk titled Here’s to the Weather Warriors! \nAll was ready for D-day. Aboard ships steaming in the English Channel\, thousands of troops waited anxiously. In their camps by air fields\, hundreds of paratroopers sat sharpening bayonets and writing that last-minute letter home. Overhead droned hundreds of bombers and fighters bound for targets behind the beaches. At SHAEF’s advanced headquarters\, generals and admirals hashed out final details and worried about the one element of the invasion beyond their control – the weather. If the forecast was wrong\, D-day would fail. \nIke’s weatherman was James Martin Stagg. The US Army Air Force\, the Royal Navy\, and the British Met Office each prepared independent weather forecasts for D-day from data gathered by weather reconnaissance aircraft\, ships in the north Atlantic\, weathermen who fled Nazi’s invasion of Belgium but parachuted back home\, and interception of German weather reports. Stagg’s job was to meld them into one forecast and it absolutely had to be right. \nHad the forecast been wrong\, D-day would have failed. At least one year would have been required to gather men and materials to mount a second attempt. The delay would have meant that the Russians would have occupied all of Germany – no West Germany. Communists\, the strongest force in the French resistance\, would have dominated the French national assembly – no NATO. Imagine world history without West Germany and NATO. \n  \nJohn E. Ross\, the author of The Forecast for D-day and the Weatherman behind Ike’s Greatest Gamble\, interviewed many men and women who actually made the pivotal forecast as well as a German meteorologist who provided forecasts for the Luftwaffe and Wehrmacht in France. The book has been widely quoted in D-day anniversary stories by USA Today\, The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, The Weather Channel\, BBC and Associated Press-Europe.  \nAmong the reasons for writing the book\, John wanted to express gratitude to all those veterans and the Grey Berets of today\, who quietly and without recognition provide tactical and strategic weather forecasts on which successful military campaigns rely. \nJohn is no stranger to Waynesboro. He was the founding co-chair of the Center for Coldwaters Restoration which was largely responsible for generating the opportunity for the Virginia Museum of Natural History to locate a proposed branch museum in downtown Waynesboro. \n  \nIf you can’t make it in person\, you can find stream the live video on both the Wayne Theatre and VMNH Facebook pages. You can also view all our past Science Talks on the Virginia Museum of Natural History YouTube Channel.
URL:https://southriverwatershed.org/event/science-talk-john-e-ross-heres-to-the-weather-warriors/
LOCATION:The Wayne Theatre\, 521 West Main Street\, Waynesboro\, Virginia\, 22980
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Featured,Science Talks
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SUMMARY:Science Talk! Dr Joe Keiper\, VMNH - Historic Bird Collections: A Time Machine for Bird Conservation and a Gateway for Avian Appreciation
DESCRIPTION:Our second Science Talk of the series on Tuesday\, October 21st features Dr Joe Keiper\, Executive Director at the Virginia Museum of Natural History. \n  \nHistoric Bird Collections: A Time Machine for Bird Conservation and a Gateway for Avian Appreciation \nTopic Details: \nDr. Keiper will talk about how to get into birding and citizen science\, and delve into the values of historic ornithology collections in museums. (Ornithology is the scientific study of birds.) \nSpeaker: \nDr. Joe B. Keiper is Executive Director of the Virginia Museum of Natural History. When he was a museum curator\, he was deeply involved in the biology of invertebrate animals\, but maintained a long-standing passion for birding. He interned at Chincoteague Wildlife Refuge in the summers of 1992 and 1993 where he worked on conservation projects targeting the endangered piping plover\, and was a Teaching Assistant for ornithology at Kent State University for four years following that time. He maintains his birding activities today and participates in a number of citizen science\nprograms focused on bird populations. \n  \nIf you can’t be there in person\, you can find the live video\, along with all our past Science Talks\, on the Virginia Museum of Natural History YouTube Channel.
URL:https://southriverwatershed.org/event/science-talk-dr-joe-keiper-vmnh-historic-bird-collections-a-time-machine-for-bird-conservation-a-gateway-for-avian-appreciation/
LOCATION:The Wayne Theatre\, 521 West Main Street\, Waynesboro\, Virginia\, 22980
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Featured,Science Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250916T190000
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SUMMARY:Science Talk! Marshall Boyd\, VMNH: What’s in a Name? How Taxonomy Fuels Museums
DESCRIPTION:We’re kicking off the series on Tuesday\, September 16th with Marshall Boyd\, Research & Collections Technician at the Virginia Museum of Natural History. \nHis talk is titled What’s in a Name? How Taxonomy Fuels the World of Museums. \nTopic: Taxonomy (the science of naming\, describing\, and classifying organisms into\ngroups based on shared characteristics) plays a key role helping scientists in museums\nto categorize specimens in order to study the relationship between each described\ngroup. Many names within taxonomy come from describing the specimen itself using\nphysical attributes\, the habitat in which it lives\, etc. It could even be named after the\npeople who discovered it! This presentation will give just a small step into the world of\nnatural history museums\, the collections from behind the scenes\, and the work that\ngoes into describing a new species. \nSpeaker: Marshall Boyd is a Research and Collections Technician at the Virginia\nMuseum of Natural History in Martinsville\, VA. He has a long background in biology\nstarting from an early age\, always having a passion for the outside world and a\nconstant curiosity about everything concerning zoology (the scientific study of animals).\nMarshall studied forest birds as a master’s student at Salisbury University earning his\ndegree in 2015. Later he was an adjunct faculty member for local Maryland community\ncolleges before discovering his passion for natural history museum work at the\nSmithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington\, D.C. Marshall worked within the\nInvertebrate Zoology department for several years where he fueled his interests in\nzoology\, eventually leading him to his current position at the Virginia Museum of Natural\nHistory. Marshall has become a part of the team at VMNH working alongside the\ncurators and other technicians for education and outreach\, assisting in the constant\ncare for museum collections\, and working with the executive staff to help shape the\nfuture of VMNH. \n \nIf you missed our last Science Talk of the Spring 2025 season\, Revitalizing an EPA Brownfield: South River Preserve and Rockfish Run with Stormwater Engineer Jessica Slagle of the Timmons Group\, you can find the video and all our past Science Talks on the Virginia Museum of Natural History YouTube Channel. \n 
URL:https://southriverwatershed.org/event/science-talk-marshall-boyd-vmnh-whats-in-a-name-how-taxonomy-fuels-museums/
LOCATION:The Wayne Theatre\, 521 West Main Street\, Waynesboro\, Virginia\, 22980
CATEGORIES:Featured,Science Talks
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SUMMARY:Science Talk! Revitalizing an EPA Brownfield: South River Preserve and Rockfish Run
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jessica Slagle\, Stormwater Engineer at Timmons Group \nTopic: Revitalizing an EPA Brownfield – South River Preserve and Rockfish Run \nJoin us at 7 pm on Tuesday\, April 29th\, at the Wayne Theatre for a Science Talk presented by The Timmons Group. \nJessica Slagle will give a presentation on the creation and revitalization of the South River Preserve\, adjacent to Constitution Park. \nMore than 450\,000 brownfields (lands that are abandoned or underused due to concerns about contamination) have been identified by the EPA in the U.S. for redevelopment and reuse\, one of which is the South River within the City of Waynesboro\, Virginia. Previously owned by Dupont\, the river and surrounding areas have been impacted by industrial practices and the presence of hazardous substances\, pollutants\, and contaminants. In conjunction with the City of Waynesboro and Anhold Associates Landscape Architecture and Planning\, Timmons Group developed plans to rehabilitate the South River Preserve and Rockfish Run for recreation\, habitat\, and ecological uplift. The South River Preserve site received funding as part of the Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration (NRDAR) program to remediate mercury contamination downstream of a decommissioned DuPont facility. Given the state of the river and Brownfield requirements\, many options were considered for implementation to improve water quality\, wildlife habitat\, and create an area for the community to safely interact with the environment. \nIn addition\, Rockfish Run was identified as a stream restoration opportunity for the City of Waynesboro\, Virginia in conjunction with the South River Preserve. Rockfish Run converges with the South River and due to watershed development\, it was contributing excessive sediment into the river. The restoration created ecological uplift and habitat for local wildlife\, as well as improved utility conditions\, and will provide educational opportunities for years to come. \nThis presentation will discuss the project in entirety – from the original contamination to project planning and design\, all the way through implementation.\nAbout Our Guest Speaker\nJessica Slagle is a Project Engineer in the Stormwater Services Group at Timmons Group in Richmond\, Virginia. She was born and raised in Asheville\, North Carolina. She attended Virginia Tech to study Biological Systems Engineering and graduated in 2019. Jessica has a passion for working outdoors and enjoys investigating a variety of stormwater and ecological systems. She currently focuses on stream restoration at Timmons Group\, but has experience in regulatory compliance\, stormwater management design\, and floodplain analysis. Stream restoration combines many of her interests\, including problem solving and environmental rehabilitation\, and allows for the ecological uplift within severely degraded water systems. \nScience Talks are free and open to the public\, with a “donate what you will” to the Wayne Theatre for hosting. The snack and beverage bar will be open for this event. \nScience Talks are livestreamed from both the Wayne Theatre and VMNH Facebook Pages\, as well as the Center for Coldwaters Restoration website\, where you can also view videos of all our previous Science Talks.
URL:https://southriverwatershed.org/event/science-talk-waynesboros-south-river-preserve/
LOCATION:The Wayne Theatre\, 521 West Main Street\, Waynesboro\, Virginia\, 22980
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Featured,Science Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250318T190000
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SUMMARY:Science Talk: Dr. Angel Garcia\, JMU Assistant Professor\, Ethnogeology & Karst Science
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Angel Garcia \nTopic: To Be Determined \nPlease save the date to join us at at 7 pm on Tuesday\, March 18th\, at the Wayne Theatre in Waynesboro for a Science Talk by Dr. Angel Garcia\, JMU Assistant Professor of Ethnogeology & Karst Science. \nDr. Garcia is a Boricua (Puerto Rican) geologist interested in ethnogeology\, cave and karst science\, place-based education\, and increasing diversity within geosciences. His undergraduate degree is from Universidad Ana G. Mendez in Puerto Rico\, where he majored in Environmental Sciences with a minor in Marine Biology. He went on to graduate school at the University of Vermont\, where he received an MS degree in Geology\, focusing on geochemistry\, and then to Arizona State University for his doctoral degree in Geological Sciences\, focusing on ethnogeology about culturally framed geological interpretations among long-term residents in the Dominican and Puerto Rican karst. In 2020 he was appointed assistant professor in the Department of Geology and Environmental Science at James Madison University (Harrisonburg\, VA). \nWe will have more details about Dr. Garcia’s presentation topic closer to the date\, so stay tuned! \nScience Talks are free and open to the public\, with a “donate what you will” to the Wayne Theatre for hosting. The snack and beverage bar will be open for this event. You can view videos of all our previous Science Talks on the Center for Coldwaters Restoration website.
URL:https://southriverwatershed.org/event/science-talk-pam-gray-black-bears-in-virginia/
LOCATION:The Wayne Theatre\, 521 West Main Street\, Waynesboro\, Virginia\, 22980
CATEGORIES:Science Talks
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SUMMARY:Science Talk! Water is Water: the Fuzzy Distinction between Surface and Groundwater in the Shenandoah Valley with Wil Orndorff
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Wil Orndorff \nTopic: Water is Water: the Fuzzy Distinction between Surface and Groundwater in the Shenandoah Valley \nPlease join us at at 7 pm on Tuesday\, February 18th\, at the Wayne Theatre in Waynesboro for his presentation on the effect extended periods of drought have on groundwater. \nWil Orndorff is the Karst Protection Coordinator for the Virginia Natural Heritage Karst Program in the Department of Conservation and Recreation and on the Board of Directors for the Karst Waters Institute. He has a Masters degree in Geology from Virginia Tech focusing on structural geology and tectonics\, and his career has led him down an interdisciplinary path that includes hydrology\, biology\, geomorphology\, and analysis of spatial data. \nKarst is a type of landscape where the dissolving of the bedrock has created sinkholes\, sinking streams\, caves\, springs\, and other characteristic features. Most karst was formed as carbonate bedrock – limestone\, dolomite\, or marble – dissolved by mildly acidic waters over thousands of years. Much of this process took place below ground\, forming networks of interconnected caves. Most of the state’s Karst is found in Virginia’s Valley and Ridge Province. Complex underground drainage networks in karst commonly extend over large areas and beneath surface drainage divides. Precipitation enters these groundwater systems both by infiltration through soils developed over carbonate bedrock and by runoff into features such as sinkholes. Once underground\, these “karst waters” flow through networks of caves\, and combine to emerge at springs. Karst hydrologists undertake the tricky business of mapping connections between these features to define “karst watersheds”\, which typically refer to a particular spring or cave stream. \nWil\, a native of the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia\, grew up looking for caves on the family farm and adjacent abandoned quarry. Introduced to formal caving work at the age of 18\, his interest in caves\, karst waters\, and geology grew into both a career and a life-long passion. With a bachelor’s degree from Johns Hopkins and a masters in geology from Virginia Tech focusing on Appalachian tectonics in hand\, Wil entered the professional karst world as a self-employed consultant performing karst analyses of the potential impacts of a proposed high voltage power line corridor on karst springs and bat habitat along its path. Becoming Virginia’s Karst Protection Coordinator became Wil’s career\, and afforded him the opportunity to do the work he loved\, protecting the resources he cared about. The nature of the job turned Wil into a jack of all trades karst professional who wears many hats: geologist\, hydrologist\, conservationist\, educator\, explorer\, and\, increasingly\, biologist. His work has resulted in the establishment of two natural area preserves protecting significant caves and additions of several tracts containing significant caves to existing preserves. Through the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation’s environmental project review\, Wil has helped to avoid or mitigate impacts to hundreds of caves with the help of the Virginia Speleological Survey\, with whom he is a director at large in his spare time. \nWil is the 2019 Recipient of the Karst Award from Karst Waters Institute. He lives in Blacksburg\, Virginia with his wife Zenah. \nScience Talks are free and open to the public\, with a “donate what you will” to the Wayne Theatre for hosting. The snack and beverage bar will be open for this event. You can view videos of all our previous Science Talks on the Center for Coldwaters Restoration website.
URL:https://southriverwatershed.org/event/science-talk-wil-orndorff-karst-protection-coordinator/
LOCATION:The Wayne Theatre\, 521 West Main Street\, Waynesboro\, Virginia\, 22980
CATEGORIES:Featured,Science Talks
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SUMMARY:Science Talk: Belmont Vineyard and the 19th Century Wine Industry in the Virginia Blue Ridge with Carole Nash\, Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Carole Nash\, Ph.D. \nTopic: Belmont Vineyard and the 19th Century Wine Industry in the Virginia Blue Ridge \n \nPlease join us at at 7 pm on Tuesday\, January 21st\, at the Wayne Theatre in Waynesboro for our first Science Talk of 2025! \nOur speaker will be Carole Nash\, Ph.D.\, James Madison University Professor of Geography in the Department of Integrated Science and Technology\, and CISE Director of Inclusive Excellence. \nShe is also a founder and President of Mountain Valley Archaeology and was recently appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Virginia Museum of Natural History. \nScience Talks are free and open to the public\, with a “donate what you will” to the Wayne Theatre for hosting. The snack and beverage bar will be open for this event. You can view videos of all our previous Science Talks on the Center for Coldwaters Restoration website. \nCarole Nash’s areas of expertise include: \n\nMiddle Atlantic Archaeology\nHuman Ecology\nCitizen Science\n\nNash’s background is in archaeology and her scholarly interests and research topics include the archaeology of the Appalachians\, Native American cultures\, applications of technology in the field sciences\, historical ecology and public participation in science. \nShe is consulting archaeologist and principal investigator for Shenandoah National Park and a registered professional archaeologist. She has 40 years of experience in cultural resource management. \nRecent work includes the study of the impacts of climate change on heritage resources of the Chesapeake Bay region. Combining geospatial\, archaeological and citizen science research\, Nash and her students are developing methodologies for assessment and prediction of these impacts. \nShe received her doctorate in anthropology/archaeology from the Catholic University of America\, a master’s degree in applied philosophy from Bowling Green State University\, and a bachelor of science degree in anthropology and philosophy from James Madison University.
URL:https://southriverwatershed.org/event/science-talk-carole-nash-ph-d/
LOCATION:The Wayne Theatre\, 521 West Main Street\, Waynesboro\, Virginia\, 22980
CATEGORIES:Science Talks
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SUMMARY:Science Talk: Wildland Fire & Prescribed Burning in Virginia
DESCRIPTION:Guest Speaker: Cole Young \nThe Signature Speaker Series covers two categories: History and Science Talks.  The Science Talks are a partnership with the Virginia Museum of Natural History\, the Center for Coldwaters Restoration\, and the South River Watershed Coalition. \nAll Signature Speaker Series begin at 7:00pm.  Admission is pay what you will. \nTHIS EVENT WILL BE LIVE STREAMED ON THE WAYNE THEATRE FACEBOOK PAGE\, THE VMNH FACEBOOK PAGE\, AND THE CENTER FOR COLDWATERS RESTORATIONS WEBSITE: WWW.CCRWAYNESBORO.COM
URL:https://southriverwatershed.org/event/science-talk-wildland-fire-prescribed-burning-in-virginia/
LOCATION:The Wayne Theatre\, 521 West Main Street\, Waynesboro\, Virginia\, 22980
CATEGORIES:Science Talks
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