IGC Capstone Projects

This Capstone Project will organizing a snorkeling event in collaboration with the New River Land Trust (NRLT) to educate middle school students in Montgomery County, VA, about the importance of local river ecosystems and species conservation.

This Capstone project entails arranging a workshop where students can hone their skills and open mic night where graduate students can share their scientific work with the public in a relaxed setting.

IGC Reuseful's goal is to facilitate and host events that educate students about the actual, quantitative environmental benefits of reuse, repair, and creative upcycling sustainability.

This proposal brings together five IGC members from four different departments and seeks to comprehend how various experts and coordinators of research centers and other types of institutions approach invasive species management.

This capstone project aims to amplify marginalized voices in global change research, management, and education, particularly those from regions facing significant environmental challenges.

Five IGC Fellows work to create an interactive website focused on Environmental Justice within the New River Valley area.

This project aims to create a place-based Canvas course for raising awareness about the intersection of social and environmental issues affecting American Indian and Indigenous communities

The purpose of this project is to contribute a practical, comprehensive extension publication on the current state of PFAS research, health effects, potential risks and treatment considerations for homeowners on private drinking water systems.

To further the Interfaces of Global Change program's emphasis on science communication, research extension and impact, one group of IGC students created the I Can SciComm podcast.

Weather or Not? Working to quantify the weatherization needs of off-campus student housing and identify some of the barriers to weatherization.

For this IGC Capstone Project, philosophers and scientists worked together to create an interactive, reflexive exploration of the role of values in science. The project was implemented over two class meetings of the first-year IGC seminar course as an interactive workshop to help other Fellows articulate their core values and consider how these play a role in their own research.

In a collaborative effort with the Invasive Species Working Group and the Town of Blacksburg Sustainability Chair, this capstone group organized and led a “BioBlitz”-style invasive species survey.

This project created hands-on Activities for K-12 Students to achieve Virginia Standards of Learning related to Global Change.

A team of four PhD Fellows worked together and alongside members of the GCC Freshwater Salinization Working Group to review six decades of literature published on animal responses to increased salinities across different taxonomic and ecological contexts and identified knowledge gaps.

Five IGC fellows collaborated with several other VT graduate students and the Roanoke City Public Libraries to host a Flipped Science Fair, with twin goals of science outreach and graduate training.

IGC Fellows completed two reports analyzing environmental impacts from the Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley Pipelines, and submitted their findings as referenced public comments to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Forest Service.

This group of students held a common desire to use their diverse skill sets to study impacts of global change on our local Stroubles Creek, which drains much of Blacksburg and Virginia Tech’s campus.