EPA Recognizes Virginia Tech Postdoc's Research on Birds

Tuesday, November 4, 2014 - 19:00 in Biology & Nature

Laura Schoenle is interested in how mercury contamination affects the levels of a stress hormone called glucocorticoid in birds. Low levels of environmental mercury can have a profound effect on animal populations in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. 

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