Graduate Student Profile: Tony Timpano

Career & Academic Interests:

Forest stream benthic macroinvertebrate ecology, development and application of biomonitoring tools for stream assessment, landuse impacts to forest stream ecosystems, water quality impacts and modeling, science-based policy development

Research Topic:  Development of a Total Dissolved Solids Water Quality Criterion to Protect Aquatic Life in the Appalachian Coalfields of Southwest Virginia

Advisor* & Committee:

• Dr. Carl Zipper*, VT Dept. of Crop & Soil Environmental Sciences
• Dr. Stephen Schoenholtz, Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, Virginia Water Resources Research Center,Blacksburg, VA 24061
• Dr. David Soucek, Ecotoxicologist, Illinois Natural History Survey at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Contact Information

Crop & Soil Environmental Sciences
Virginia Tech
351C Smyth Hall (0404)
Blacksburg, VA  24061
atimpano@vt.edu