
Major
Research:
Mined
Land Reforestation. James A.
Burger, Department of Forestry
Properties
and Potential Water Quality Effects of Post-2000 Coal Combustion
Products. W. Lee Daniels,
Mike Beck, and Matthew Eick. Department of Crop and Soil Environmental
Sciences.
Evaluating
Wildlife Response to Reclaimed Mine Lands in Southwestern Virginia. Dean F. Stauffer and Carola Haas, Department
of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences.
Education / Extension / Outreach –
Area Extension Agent – Mined Land Development and Natural Resource
Management.
Jon Rockett,
Enhancing
Sustainable Beef Cattle Production on Reclaimed Surface Mined Land. John Hall, Department of Animal and
Poultry
Sciences, and W. D. Whittier,
Teaching
Environmental Issues, from Coal to Electricity. Barbara Altizer, Eastern Coal Council and
Jon Rockett, Powell River Project / Virginia Cooperative Extension.
Education
– Area Colleges:
Habitat
Assessment and the Establishment of a Nesting Box Trail for Sialia sialis (Eastern Bluebird) In
the Powell River Project Education Center. Carol A. Burkart and Anthony Russo,
Heavy metal sequestration in settling
ponds: A mechanism for the removal of metals associated with
mined lands. Aaron W.
Johnson, Assistant Professor of Geology,
Carbon Sequestration Project
on
Surface Mined Sites in the Clinch and
Co-grazing Appalachian Pastures with Goats
and
Cattle: Effects on Pasture Quality, Animal Performance, and Farm
Profitability.
A.O. Abaye, J.M.
Luginbuhl,
C. Zipper, J. Rockett, D. Whittier. Supported by
Nutrient Sorption Potentials of High-Carbon
Ash Materials. W. Lee
Daniels,
Department of Crop and Soil Environmental
Sciences. Supported by
Mined Land Reforestation Conference. C. Zipper, Department of Crop and Soil
Environmental Sciences; and J.A. Burger, Department of Forestry.
Supported by