Leigh-Anne Krometis and Emily Sarver win inaugural environmental science award
BLACKSBURG, Va., Oct. 23, 2015 – The Appalachian Research Initiative for Environmental Science (ARIES), a university consortium, managed at the Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research, affiliated with the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech, presented its inaugural ARIES award to Leigh-Anne Krometis of the Department of Biological Systems Engineering and Emily Sarver of the Department of Mining and Minerals Engineering.
Sarver and Krometis received the award due to the exemplary quality of their research and their research partnership, said John Craynon, Appalachian Research Initiative for Environmental Science project director.
The Appalachian Research Initiative for Environmental Science program focuses on collaborative work investigating key issues from various energy production and environmental science disciplines. Over the course of their grants, Sarver and Krometis grew their initial single subject investigations into transdisciplinary projects, meeting the demand of complex issues with a depth of understanding provided by multi-level multi-disciplinary research, Craynon said.