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Two men on a boat from VCU on the James River, with a sturgeon in a net

Dr. Matt Balazik the subject of a Richmond Magazine story

Jan. 8, 2025

The article focuses on VCU's ongoing effort to protect spawning sturgeon

Dr. Matt Balazik on stage accepting a T-Mobile Unconventional Award, holding the award

Matt Balazik, Ph.D., receives national T-Mobile Unconventional Award

Oct. 14, 2024

Financial award goes toward further sturgeon research.

Dr. Matthew Balazik pulls in a gill net on the James River near Osbourne Landing. All photos by Scott Elmquist

Matt Balazik, Ph.D., the focus of Style Weekly's Sunday with Style

Sept. 23, 2024

Even with decades of research, Atlantic sturgeon remain a puzzle despite having roamed local waters for thousands of years.

Hickory shad travel together as a school. (Ryan Hagerty/U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)

Conservationists ask Virginia to protect a ‘fish with a lot of fight’

Aug. 28, 2024

Rice Rivers Center Director Greg Garman is interviewed.

Sara Bouchard

Sara Bouchard named FLUXNET artist-in-residence

Aug. 23, 2024

The one-year residency is at the carbon flux tower at VCU Rice Rivers Center.

A group of faculty and students from the Center on Health Disparities come together at Rice Rivers Center

Rice Rivers Center hosts VCU Center on Health Disparities retreat

Aug. 23, 2024

Faculty and students from Monroe Park and Health Campuses discuss intersection between human and environmental health.

Illustration of two prothonotary warblers in a tree, with two people in a canoe in the foreground.

A bird call for wetland health

Aug. 21, 2024

Humans need marshes. The prothonotary warbler can help us save them.

A VCU researcher led a team exploring restoring sturgeon to rivers in the United Kingdom. (Zoological Society of America)

VCU Rice Rivers Center sturgeon specialist takes his expertise from the James River to the U.K.

Aug. 19, 2024

Matt Balazik led a research team assessing two rivers that offer hope for reintroducing the historic and endangered ‘royal fish.’

todd janeski dumping oysters in the river

VOSRP's Janeski selected to MAFMC advisory board

Aug. 9, 2024

His three-year term began July 1, 2024.

Photo of Virginia Oyster Shell Recycling Program staff

The Virginia Oyster Shell Recycling Program completes their 2023/2024 season

Aug. 5, 2024

Thousands of shell with spat "planted" in the Piankatank River.