On a recent Monday night, the University of Virginia Patent Foundation honored Wladek Minor as the 2007 Edlich-Henderson Inventor of the Year, an annual award for the last 15 years. A professor of molecular physiology and biological physics in the University’s School of Medicine, Minor is a researcher and inventor in the field of protein […]
music Like many a band’s first “official” album, Dr. Dog’s 2005 release Easy Beat was a furious and arresting microcosm of everything they had to say. Or at the least, listening to We All Belong, their 2007 follow-up, I got that sense. Where Easy Beat had a sense of urgency, a need to stomp their […]
There are many signs in Charlottesville and Albemarle County that reflect the strain growth is increasingly placing on the area, from the inadequacy of sewer infrastructure to a limited
Observatory Hill is the high water point of the UVA campus. Only a few miles away, the new John Paul Jones Arena sits over the low water point, the gully that separates Emmet Street
A little over a year ago, the Board of Supervisors voted 5-1 to redraw the boundary lines of the growth area off of Route 29N for developer Wendell Wood, in exchange for him selling
Most of the groups who work on the Rivanna have a wealth of printed and online information about the Rivanna, but for sheer history, nothing tops Mr. Jefferson’s River, a book about the Rivanna by William E. Trout and Minnie Lee McGehee. A resident of Palmyra, McGehee and her husband Henry were largely responsible for […]
In 1998, Moore’s Creek, which drains parts of Albemarle County and the City of Charlottesville and forms much of the southern boundary of Charlottesville, was placed on Virginia’s Impaired Waters list for levels of fecal coliform bacteria that indicate the creek is unsafe for swimming and fishing. The next year, the Thomas Jefferson Planning District […]
There are some simple ways to help the Rivanna, but the most efficient method may be installing a Rooftop Runoff Collection System. According to the Thomas Jefferson Soil and Water Conservation District, an average of 34,300 gallons of rain falls on a 30′ x 40′ roof in Central Virginia each year. That could potentially provide […]
As Charlottesville’s economy moved from an agricultural base to an industrial one, the threat to the Rivanna shifted. Suddenly there were impervious surfaces like the asphalt parking lots that spread like smallpox after World War II. They created an incredible storm runoff, a wave of filth that cascaded down into the streams and rivers. “It’s […]
The Rivanna hosts a number of species of wildlife, from mammals like beaver, otter and mink to birds like heron, osprey and the bald eagle, and, of course, fish, with bass and perch chief among them. Of all the species, the most treasured is the James River spiny mussel. Globally rare and federally endangered, the […]