Reynolds Faculty Publishes 2Nd Edition

Reynolds Faculty Publishes Second Edition

Reynolds Community College is pleased to denote that Assistant Dean, School of Mathematics, Science together with Engineering Dr. Richard Groover has published an ambitious reference book: The Environment Almanac of Virginia, 2d edition. 

The Environmental Almanac of Virginia, 2d edition covers all major environmental topics relevant to the Commonwealth of Virginia. Chapters include natural resources, air quality, H2O quality, enterprise waste materials issues, toxics constitute inwards Virginia’s environmental, wild fauna species of Virginia, together with endangered species. Groover approached Frits van der Leeden, writer of the offset edition, to encourage him to write a mo part, exactly the writer instead encouraged Groover to stimulate got on the monumental task. Which he did.

This mo edition reference majority contains hundreds of pages packed amongst up-to-date information, to a greater extent than than xxx maps, charts together with tables organized inwards a user-friendly format for quick access. Some information that is irretrievable for regime sites, cyberspace searches or electrical current interrogation has been distilled for the reader’s use. New topics since the offset edition stimulate got been updated inwards this edition, such equally liberate energy strategies, Marcellus Shale deposits, uranium deposits, together with choice liberate energy possibilities. Also novel inwards the Second Edition is electrical current climate modify information for Virginia, information on invasive species, together with updates on H2O quality, air pollution together with environmental regulations.

According to a recent interview amongst Emory & Henry College, Groover’s alma mater, Groover enjoys existence busy. Groover told east & H: “I’m worried virtually existence bored. If I larn out tomorrow, I’ve had a actually fun life!” In the course of written report of his life he has been a scientist, a teacher, a plain researcher, a regime employee, a reserve deputy sheriff, a hostage negotiator, a documentary filmmaker, a National Park docent, a one-time fellow member of the Governor’s Climate Change Commission for Virginia, together with is a electrical current fellow member of the Board of Trustees for the Virginia Science Museum. 

Dr. Richard S. Groover is an aquatic ecologist. He has a PhD inwards Environmental Science together with Public Policy from George Mason University. In improver to existence an Assistant Dean at Reynolds Community College, he is a Fellow of the Virginia Academy of Science, together with was a fellow member of the Governor’s Climate together with Resiliency Commission, 2014 – 2015. He has published articles inwards journals together with other media, together with has produced a number of award-winning documentary together with educational films.