When you are hiking, keep an eye to ground for Eastern box turtles who are on the move!
Photo: Cindy Haddon Andrews

Taking time to enjoy the beauty of the environment around you is one of the best gifts you can give yourself. Happy Earth Day!
Photo: Ron Lopez
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They are small so you might not see them, but you can hear them throughout Rice Rivers Center. The prothonotary warblers have returned for the spring and summer.
Photo: Cindy Haddon Andrews

Every Ram's a Researcher: Center for Environmental Studies major Juniper Peterson makes a mark in avian ecology with his research at VCU Rice Rivers Center.
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What a way to end the 2023/24 shell bagging events for the Virginia Oyster Shell Recycling Program. This fabulous crew of volunteers completed a season high of 276 bags! Time to get some shells in the water…stay tuned.

#VCU celebrates ‘one of the best’ years for its growing and renowned research enterprise!

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The sound of science: #VCU students compose electronic music that incorporates environmental data gathered at VCU Rice Rivers Center!

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Sage Lockett, a Center for Environmental Studies major, presents his research conducted at Rice Rivers Center at the Association of Southeastern Biologists conference. lifesciences.vcu.edu/news/newsroom/…

#VCU is launching its first-ever signature fragrance this week, sold exclusively – for now – at the Shift Retail Lab on the Monroe Park Campus.

Read more about the venture here: news.vcu.edu/article/2024/0…

Watch the ad here: youtu.be/ytx6SSTvNMs

#VCU Rams #AprilFools

Today at 3:30 at the Depot Annex, VCUarts Data Sonification class will be presenting a Live Coding Algorave. In collaboration with VCU Biology's Dr. Chris Gough, students will present live coded sound pieces based on environmental data from the center.

.Cindy Haddon Andrews and her camera caught the woods waking up. These spicebush buds are ready to bloom.

The reach of VCU Rice Rivers Center faculty goes beyond VCU students and into the local community.
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No, it is not a new virus. It’s the flower of a skunk cabbage. These ancient plants are one of the first blooms, generating their own heat to melt snow if needed.

Since it feels so much like late spring/early summer today, we thought we would show you what the front of the Walter L. Rice Education Building at Rice Rivers Center looks like when it really is.

Oscar nominations came out today, and this blinged-out and bejeweled looking European starling is ready for the red carpet, #RiceRiversStyle .
Photo: Jeanne Walls

Looking out over the James River from inside the conference room in the Walter L. Rice Education Building. We’re ready for a soggy and stormy beginning to the weekend.
#JamesRiver #rainyday #thisisntjanuaryweather

Cautiously stepping into 2024, #RiceRiversStyle .
Photo: Cindy Haddon Andrews

Oysters making a big comeback in Virginia. A lot of it has to do with the Virginia Oyster Shell Recycling Program. A while back I did a 3 part series on Virginia's oysters. Check it out! #RVA #8News

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The Inger Rice Lodge was home base to 12 veterans during Beyond Boundaries annual Veterans Day weekend adventure program. To view photos from the weekend, visit the Beyond Boundaries SmugMug page. beyondboundariesrva.smugmug.com/1111-1223-Vete…

Congratulations to Center for Environmental Studies newest alumni!
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