Virginia Water Radio: Index

This page contains a comprehensive index of all the major topics of each episode, beginning with the first episode in which the short format with only the "Sounds and Music" segment was used: Episode 67 on June 6, 2011. All episodes since are indexed here by general category, with links to the episode to which they refer.

Amphibians

American Toad | EP413 - 3/26/18
Barking Treefrog | EP319 - 6/6/16

Brimley's Chorus Frog | EP563 - 2/8/21

Bullfrog | EP 74 - 8/8/11; EP381 – 8/14/17

Chorus Frogs Group | EP620 - 3/14/22
Coastal Plains Leopard Frog | EP515 - 3/9/20
Eastern Spadefoot | EP 357 - 2/27/17

Hellbender | EP 185 - 10/28/13

Herp Blitz (Va. Herpetological Society Survey) | EP 371 - 6/5/17 (features sounds of Bullfrog, Gray Treefrog, Northern Cricket Frog, Fowler's Toad, Green Frog)

Little Grass Frog | EP509 - 1/27/20

Medleys of calls | EP 206 - 3/24/14 (American Toad, Spring Peeper, Wood Frog); EP 408 - 2/19/18 (American Toad, Bullfrog, Carpenter Frog, Gray Tree Frog, Green Frog, Mountain Chorus Frog, Northern Cricket Frog, Pickerel Frog, Spring Peeper, Wood Frog); EP516 - 3/16/20 (Upland Chorus Frog with several non-amphibians); EP620 - 3/14/22 (Brimley's Chorus Frog, Little Grass Frog, Mountain Chorus Frog, New Jersey Chorus Frog, Southern Chorus Frog, Spring Peeper, Upland Chorus Frog; EP 649 - 2/20/23 (Coastal Plains Leopard Frog, Eastern Narrow-mouthed Toad, Green Treefrog, Little Grass Frog, Oak Toad, Pine Woods Treefrog, Southern Chorus Frog, Squirrel Treefrog, and Upland Chorus Frog)

Mountain Chorus Frog | EP620 - 3/14/22
Oak Toad | EP482 - 7/22/19
Salamanders generally | EP 257 - 3/16/15

Southern Toad | EP482 - 7/22/19; EP516 - 3/16/20
Spring Peeper | EP 570 - 3/29/21; EP618 - 2/28/22
Wood Frog | EP 206 - 3/24/14; EP 408 - 2/19/18; EP509 - 1/27/20; EP618 - 2/28/22

Birds

American Avocet | EP543 – 9/21/20

Black skimmers | EP213 – 5/12/14

Black-crowned Night Heron | EP235 – 10/13/14

Black-necked Stilt | EP543 – 9/21/20

Ducks | EP136 – 11/12/12; EP303 – 2/15/16 (Common Goldeneye); EP398 – 12/11/17 (Teal); EP472 – 5/13/19 (Mallard); EP490 – 9/16/19 (Black-bellied Whistling Duck); EP604 – 11/22/21 (Canvasback)
Eastern Phoebe | EP416 – 4/16/18

Eastern Screech-Owl | EP227 – 8/18/14
eBird | EP440 – 10/1/18
Fall migratory birds | EP281 – 9/14/15; EP335 – 9/26/16; EP603 – 11/15/21 (Broad-winged Hawk, Green Heron, Least Tern, Osprey, Piping Plover, Snowy Egret, Sora)
Fish Crow | EP352 – 1/23/17
Great Blue Heron | EP118 – 7/9/12; EP381 – 8/14/17; EP633 - 8/1/22
Great Egret | EP633 - 8/1/22

Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs | EP636 - 9/12/22
Green Heron | EP127 – 9/10/12
Grebes | EP233 – 9/29/14

Gulls | EP518 – 3/30/20

Hummingbirds | EP281 – 9/14/15
Killdeer | EP411 – 3/12/18
Little Blue Heron | EP478 – 6/24/19
Loons | EP445 – 11/5/18

Marsh birds generally | EP430 – 7/23/18 (Great Blue Heron, Wood Duck, Northern Harrier, Least Bittern, Common Moorhen, Marsh Wren)
Northern Harrier | EP561 - 1/25/21
Osprey | EP116 – 6/25/12; EP590 – 8/16/21

Pelicans | EP206 – 3/14/14; EP282 – 9/21/15; EP456 – 1/21/19
Piping Plover | EP79 – 9/12/11
Rails | EP391 – 10/23/17 (American Coot); EP530 – 6/22/20 (focus on Virginia Rail)
Red-winged Blackbird | EP118 – 7/9/12; EP206 – 3/14/14; EP259 – 3/30/15; EP309 - 3/28/16; EP364 - 4/17/16

Royal Tern | EP68 – 6/13/11
Sandpipers | EP264 – 5/4/15; EP315 – 5/9/16; EP516 - 3/16/20; EP636 - 9/12/22
Snow Goose | EP507 – 1/13/20
Sparrows | EP254 – 2/23/15; EP511 – 2/10/20 (Saltmarsh Sparrow)
Spring migration | EP572 – 4/12/21
Summer birds sampler | EP118 – 7/9/12 (Mallard, Canada Goose, Red-winged Blackbird, Belted Kingfisher, Great Blue Heron, Tree Swallow)
Swallows | EP329 – 8/15/16; EP516 - 3/16/20
Tundra Swan | EP554 – 12/7/20
Warblers | EP520 – 4/13/20 (Waterthrushes); EP572 – 4/12/21; EP627 – 5/9/22 (Prothonotary and Parula)
Water use by birds | EP137 – 11/19/12

Wild Turkey | EP343 – 11/21/16

Winter birds sampler | EP565 – 2/22/21 (in Chesapeake Bay: Horned Grebe, Dunlin, American Coot, Hooded Merganser, Tundra Swan, and Snow Goose)

Wood Duck | EP443 – 10/22/18

Community/Organizations

Chesapeake Bay Restoration Efforts (including TMDL) | EP115 – 6/18/12; EP305 – 2/29/16; EP475 – 6/3/19; EP496 – 10/28/19
Chesapeake Bay Commission | EP496 – 10/28/19
Clean Water Act | EP269 – 6/8/15; EP380 – 8/7/17; EP451 – 12/17/18
Drinking Water Week | EP314 – 5/2/16
Fix a Leak Week | EP307 – 3/14/16
Fires and fire prevention | EP389 – 10/9/17; EP493 – 10/7/19
Envirothon | EP114 – 6/11/12

Outside of Virginia | EP440 – 10/1/18 (e-Bird at Cornell University); EP471 – 5/6/19 ("Water Rocks!" at Iowa State Univ.); EP497 – 11/4/19 ("Connecting the Drops" in Colorado)
National Parks | EP229 - 9/1/14; EP230 – 9/8/14; EP231 – 9/15/14; EP473 – 5/20/19
"Polar Plunge" for Special Olympics | EP356 – 2/20/17

Record water level marker dedication comments | EP86 – 10/31/11

SERCAP (formerly Virginia Water Project) | EP366 – 5/1/17
Trout in the Classroom | EP485 – 8/12/19
U.S. Armed Forces | EP289 – 11/9/15 (Veterans Day episode-Navy); EP341 – 11/7/16 (Veterans Day episode-Air Force); EP394 – 11/13/17 (Veterans Day episode-Army); EP446 – 11/12/18 (Veterans Day episode-Marines); EP498 – 11/11/19 (Veterans Day episode-all services except Space Force); EP641 – 11/7/22 (Veterans Day episode-Coast Guard)
Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation | EP320 – 6/13/16; EP533 – 7/13/20
Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources (until 2020, the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries | EP322 – 6/27/16
Virginia General Assembly | EP143 – 1/7/13; EP147 – 2/4/13; EP196 – 1/13/14; EP247 – 1/5/15; EP252 – 2/9/15; EP297 – 1/4/16; EP302 – 2/8/16; EP350 – 1/9/17; EP353 – 1/30/17; EP359 – 3/13/17; EP402 – 1/8/18; EP405 – 1/29/18; EP410 – 3/5/18; EP454 – 1/7/19; EP460 – 2/18/19; EP506 – 1/6/20; EP510 – 2/3/20; EP522 – 4/27/20; EP558 – 1/4/21; EP562 – 2/1/21; EP611 – 1/10/22; EP614 – 1/31/22; EP646 – 1/9/23; EP647 – 1/23/23; EP648 – 2/6/23
Virginia Legislative Commissions, Committees, and Councils | EP508 – 1/20/20 (focus on Commission on Technology and Science, or JCOTS)
Virginia Marine Resources Commission | EP91 – 12/5/11
Virginia Outdoors Plan | EP495 – 10/21/19
Virginia State Parks | EP161 – 5/13/13; EP320 – 6/13/16
Virginia State Water Commission | EP347 – 12/19/16
Virginia State Water Control Board | EP94 – 1/9/12
Virginia Water Resources Research Center | EP301 – 2/1/16 (new internship program in 2016)

Virginia Wildlife Action Plan | EP154 – 3/25/13

Walk across Virginia | EP110 – 5/14/12

Water quality agencies in Virginia | EP94 – 1/9/12; EP378 – 7/24/17; EP380 – 8/7/17
Water supply planning | EP261 – 4/13/15 (updates EP85 – 10/24/11)

Energy
American Power Suite | EP316 – 5/16/16
Electricity | EP410 – 3/5/18 (state regulation); EP492 – 9/30/19 (renewable generation); EP522 – 4/27/20 (state regulation/renewable energy)
Hydroelectric power | EP170 – 7/15/13
Natural gas | EP380 – 8/7/17
Solid-waste recycling, energy, and water | EP240 – 11/17/14
Water quality and coal | EP97 – 1/30/12; EP98 – 2/6/12; EP99 – 2/13/12

Fish

Atlantic Menhaden | EP635 – 8/29/22

Bass | EP73 – 8/1/11

Fish families | EP241 – 11/24/14

Fish migration | EP211 – 4/28/14
Fish sounds | EP77 – 8/29/11

Methods of fish sampling | EP172 – 7/29/83
Spring signals to fish and anglers | EP571 - 4/5/21
Trout | EP485 – 8/12/19

Groundwater

Eastern Virginia Groundwater | EP534 – 7/20/20 (SWIFT Project)
Groundwater generally | EP575 – 5/3/21
Information sources | EP546 – 10/12/20
Springs |EP576 – 5/10/21; EP577– 5/17/21

Virginia caves | EP527 – 6/1/20 (featuring Luray Caverns' Great Stalacpipe Organ)
Winter precipitation and water supplies | EP567 - 3/8/21
Well drilling | EP578 – 5/24/21

Well-water testing | EP579– 5/31/21

History

Abraham Lincoln and Virginia Waters | EP355 – 2/13/17; EP459 – 2/11/19
Bridges | EP245 – 12/22/14; EP447 – 11/19/18 (covered)

Civil Rights History Series | EP566 – 3/1/21; EP591 – 8/23/21; EP616 – 2/14/22; EP619 – 3/7/22

Craney Island | EP543 – 9/21/20

Cumberland Gap | EP544 – 9/28/20

Dams | EP476 – 6/10/19
Exploration of the Chesapeake Bay | EP140 – 12/10/12, EP364 - 12/12/16 (on Werowocomoco); EP538 – 8/17/20
Exploration of the Roanoke River | EP374 – 6/26/17
Ferries | EP457 – 1/28/19
Forks in Waterways, Roads, and Place Names | EP545 – 10/5/20
Fort Valley | EP331 – 8/29/16
Frog Level | EP431 – 7/30/18
Historic-record water level marker dedication at New River | EP86 – 10/31/11

Oysters and Oystering in the Chesapeake Bay and Other Estuaries | EP279 - 8/24/15
Paint Bank (Craig County) | EP386 – 9/18/17
River Piracy | EP491 - 9/23/19

Tribute to George Washington and the Rappahannock | EP304 – 2/22/16

U.S. Armed Forces | EP289 – 11/9/15 (Veterans Day episode-Navy); EP341 – 11/7/16 (Veterans Day episode-Air Force); EP394 – 11/13/17 (Veterans Day episode-Army); EP446 – 11/12/18 (Veterans Day episode-Marines); EP498 – 11/11/19 (Veterans Day episode-all services); EP550 – 11/9/20 (Veterans Day episode-all services except Space Force); EP641 – 11/7/22 (Veterans Day episode-Coast Guard)
Virginia and the National Park Service System | EP229 - 9/1/14
Virginia and the Ohio River Valley | EP422 – 5/28/18

Virginia General Assembly | EP143 – 1/7/13
Virginia Native Peoples | EP364 - 12/12/16 (on Werowocomoco)
Virginia's Western or Alleghany Highlands | EP577– 5/17/21
Virginia's Peninsula and Historic Triangle | EP273 – 7/6/15

Water and Settlement of Roanoke | EP181 – 9/30/13

Water and the Civil War | EP101 – 3/5/12; EP164 – 6/3/13 (Memorial Day episode); EP223 – 7/21/14; EP412 – 3/19/18; EP459 – 2/11/19; EP628 – 5/23/22 (Memorial Day episode)
Water and the Revolutionary War | EP168 – 7/1/13; EP220 – 6/30/14; EP273 – 7/6/15; EP390 – 10/16/17
Water and Virginia-born Presidents | EP549 – 11/2/20

Water origins of Virginia Declaration signers | EP220 – 6/30/14

World History | EP340 – 11/2/16

Insects

True bugs (in general) | EP237 – 10/27/14
True flies (in general) | EP484 – 8/5/19
Wasps | EP276 – 7/27/15

Invertebrates Other Than Insects
Aquatic invertebrates generally | EP81 – 9/26/11 (in stream assessment); EP363 – 4/10/17
Freshwater mussels | EP432 – 8/6/18; EP433 – 8/13/18; EP434 – 8/20/18; EP435 – 8/27/18
Freshwater snails | EP262 – 4/20/15

Oysters | EP279 - 8/24/15; EP280 – 9/7/15
Spiders | EP336 – 10/3/16; EP523 – 5/4/20

Mammals

American Beaver | EP206 – 3/14/14; EP477 – 6/17/19
Bats | EP263 – 4/27/15; EP516 - 3/16/20

Coyotes | EP634 – 8/15/22
Dolphins | EP542 – 9/14/20; EP551 – 11/16/20

Seals | EP551 – 11/16/20
Water-related Mammals Generally | EP540 – 8/31/20; EP551 – 11/16/20
Whales | EP399 – 12/18/17; EP551 – 11/16/20

Overall Importance of Water

Animals Ways of Getting Water | EP531 – 6/29/20
Barns | EP444 – 10/29/18
Bridges | EP245 – 12/22/14 ; EP447 – 11/19/18 (covered)
Dams | EP476 – 6/10/19
Drinking Water Week | EP314 – 5/2/16
Ferries | EP457 – 1/28/19
Halloween episodes | EP 185 - 10/28/13; EP548 – 10/26/20; EP595 – 9/20/21; EP601 – 10/31/21; EP639 – 10/24/22; EP640 – 10/31/22
Infrastructure | EP372 – 6/12/17; EP599, 10-18-21 (Imagine a Day Without Water campaign)
Labor Day episode | EP436 – 9/3/18
Marine Biodiversity | EP651 - 3/20/23
Midnight Sounds | EP381 – 8/14/17
New Year's episodes | Episode 142, 12-31-12; EP296 – 12/28/15; EP349 – 1/2/17; EP401 – 1/1/18; EP453 – 12/31/18; EP505 – 12/30/19
River stewardship | EP383 – 8/28/17
Rural Virginia Water/Wastewater | EP366 – 5/1/17
Sounds of Animals Survey | EP524 – 5/11/20 (msoquito, deer fly, Atlantic Croaker, Gray Tree Frog, American Toad, American Bullfrog, Belted Kingfishers, Laughing Gull, Red-winged Blackbird, Bald Eagle, American Beaver, Humpback Whale)
Student shout-outs | EP325 – 7/18/16 (submerged aquatic plants); EP363 – 4/10/17 (aquatic macroinvertebrates); EP367 – 5/8/17 (mayflies); EP418 – 4/30/18 (student water questions and concerns); EP585 – 7/12/21 (water cycle, watersheds, and stormwater terms)
Thanksgiving episodes | EP291 – 11/23/15; EP343 – 11/21/16; EP395 – 11/20/17; EP500 – 11/25/19; EP642 – 11/21/22

Virginia Household Water Quality Program | EP579– 5/31/21

Virginia Water Story Overview | EP500 – 11/25/19
Virginia Tech students' Virginia Water Lessons | EP244 – 12/15/14

U.S. elections | EP340 – 11/2/16 ; EP541 – 9/7/20
Water and diseases | EP290 – 11/16/15 (antibiotic resistance); EP259 – 3/30/15 (avian malaria); EP517 – 3/23/20 (on COVID-19); EP519 – 4/6/20 (on COVID-19); EP598 – 10/11/21 (on influenza)
Water and human relationships | EP142 – 12/31/12 ; EP351 – 1/16/17
Water imagery and other language devices | EP142 – 12/31/12 ; EP200 – 2/10/14; EP296 – 12/28/15; EP401 – 1/1/18 ; EP547 – 10/19/20 (expressions); EP548 – 10/26/20 (readings for Halloween);

EP555 – 12/14/20 (jokes)
Water conservation | EP307 – 3/14/16
Water resources degree at Virginia Tech | EP243 – 12/8/14
Winter precipitation and water supplies | EP567 - 3/8/21

Worldwide water needs | EP122 – 8/6/12; EP599, 10-18-21 (Imagine a Day Without Water campaign)

Year of sounds/music | EP141 – 12/17/12; EP193 – 12/23/13; EP246 – 12/29/14; EP295 – 12/21/15; EP348 – 12/26/16; EP400 – 12/25/17; EP452 – 12/24/18; EP504 – 12/23/19; EP557 – 12/28/20; EP609 – 12/27/21; EP645 – 12/30/22

Plants

Maple trees | EP503 – 12/16/19

Milkweeds | EP487 – 8/26/19
Photosynthesis | EP602 – 11/8/21
Poison Ivy and related | EP535 – 7/27/20
Rhododendrons | EP574 – 4/26/21

Shrubs | EP630 – 6/20/22
Sycamore trees | EP624 – 4/11/22
Tree buds | EP622 – 3/28/22
Tree colors and changes in fall | EP638 – 10/10/22

Tree structures for water movement | EP638 – 10/10/22
Trees' benefits and impacts on water | EP621 – 3/21/22; EP644 – 12/19/22
Trees and water quiz for Halloween | EP640 – 10/31/22

Trees inhabiting Virginia watery places | EP626 – 4/26/22
Waterside trees as bird nesting habitat | EP627 – 5/9/22
Virginia Bluebells | EP521 – 4/20/20

Virginia Forest Lands | EP623 – 4/4/22
Witch Hazel | EP639 – 10/24/22

Recreation

Aquatic exercise | EP483 – 7/29/19
Boating safety | EP111 – 5/21/12 (Safe Boating Week in 2012); EP370 – 5/29/17 (Safe Boating Week in 2017); EP584 – 7/5/21 (Operation Dry Water and BUI)
Dock safety | EP131 – 10/8/12

Fishing-line recycling | EP383 – 8/28/17; EP590 – 8/16/21

Hydration during sports | EP466 – 4/1/19
National parks, seashores, and related places | EP229 - 9/1/14; EP230 – 9/8/14; EP231 – 9/15/14; EP368 – 5/15/17

New River | EP179 – 9/16/13

River stewardship | EP383 – 8/28/17
SCUBA diving | EP299 – 1/18/16

Smart buoys in Chesapeake Bay | EP538 – 8/17/20

Spring signals to fish and anglers | EP571 - 4/5/21
Stream access law in Virginia | EP76 – 8/22/11; EP147 – 2/4/13; EP339 – 10/24/16

Virginia Outdoors Plan | EP495 – 10/21/19
Virginia State Parks | EP161 – 5/13/13; EP320 – 6/13/16 ; EP381 – 8/14/17 (Claytor Lake)

Reptiles

American Alligator | EP167 – 6/24/13

Diamondback Terrapins | EP70 – 7/4/11
Herp Blitz (Va. Herpetological Society | EP 371, 6/5/17 (features sound of rattlesnake)

Lizards | EP514 – 3/2/20
Reptiles generally | EP123 – 8/13/12

Snakes | EP465 – 3/25/19

Turtles | EP70 – 7/4/11 (Diamondback Terrapins); EP513 – 2/24/20 (turtles generally)

Rivers, Streams, and Other Surface Water

Big Otter River | EP426 – 6/25/18
Big Run (Shenandoah National Park) | EP473 – 5/20/19; EP583 – 6/28/21

Big Sandy River | EP419 – 5/7/18; EP436 – 9/3/18
Blue Ridge and the Rockfish River | EP192 – 12/16/13

Blue Ridge creating watersheds | EP583 – 6/28/21

Bull Run | EP223 – 7/21/14
Bullpasture River | EP469 – 4/22/19
Cascades waterfall in Giles County | EP222 – 7/14/14
Chesapeake Bay | EP115 – 6/18/12; EP279 - 8/24/15; EP280 – 9/7/15; EP305 – 2/29/16; EP325 – 7/18/16; EP326 – 7/25/16; EP475 – 6/3/19; EP496 – 10/28/19; EP537 – 8/10/20; EP538 – 8/17/20; EP632 – 7/18/22
Clinch River | EP420 – 5/14/18; EP432 – 8/6/18 and EP435 – 8/27/18 (freshwater mussels)
Cowpasture River | EP469 – 4/22/19
Crabtree Falls | EP125 – 8/27/12

Cripple Creek | EP202 – 2/24/14

Cumberland Gap | EP544 – 9/28/20
Dismal Swamp | EP479 – 7/1/19
Estuaries | EP279 - 8/24/15; EP305 – 2/29/16; EP326 – 7/25/16
Falls Ridge in Montgomery County | EP205 – 3/17/14

Forks in Waterways | EP545 – 10/5/20
Goose Creek in Loudoun County | EP286 – 10/19/15

Hazel River in Rappahannock and Culpeper counties | EP339 – 10/24/16; EP583 – 6/28/21

Headwater streams | EP582 – 6/21/21
Holston River | EP425 – 6/18/18 (South Fork); EP433 – 8/13/18 (North Fork/freshwater mussels)
Impaired waters/Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) | EP115 – 6/18/12
Jackson River | EP428 – 7/9/18; EP447 – 11/19/18 (on tributary Dunlap Creek)
James River basin rivers | EP 87 - 11/7/11; EP 164 – 6/3/13; EP 220 - 6/30/14; EP265 - 5/11/15; EP 273 - 7/6/15; EP373 – 6/19/17; EP428 – 7/9/19; EP458 – 2/4/19; EP459 – 2/11/19; EP469 – 4/22/19; EP486 – 8/19/19; EP577– 5/17/21; EP583 – 6/28/21

Lake Drummond | EP479 – 7/1/19
Mountain Gaps | EP288 – 11/2/15

New River or basin | EP109 – 5/7/12; EP179 – 9/16/13; EP264 – 5/4/15 ; EP381 – 8/14/17; EP442 – 10/15/18; EP583 – 6/28/21

Ohio River Basin rivers | EP109 – 5/7/12; EP179 – 9/16/13; EP264 – 5/4/15; EP381 – 8/14/17; EP419 – 5/7/18; EP420 – 5/14/18; EP421 – 5/21/18; EP422 – 5/28/18; EP425 – 6/18/18; EP436 – 9/3/18: EP491 - 9/23/19
Passage Creek | EP331 – 8/29/16
Ponds | EP82 – 10/3/11; EP381 – 8/14/17 (Pandapas Pond, Va. Tech Duck Pond); EP404 – 1/22/18;
Potomac River or basin | EP583 – 6/28/21

Potts Creek (Jackson River basin) | EP386 – 9/18/17
Rapidan River | EP272 – 6/29/15
Rappahannock River or basin | EP71 – 7/11/11; EP89 – 11/21/11; EP245-12/22/14; | EP272 – 6/29/15; EP304 – 2/22/16; EP339 – 10/24/16; EP437 – 9/10/18; EP583 – 6/28/21; EP588 – 8/2/21
Rappahannock River Dam Removal | EP71 – 7/11/11

River stewardship | EP383 – 8/28/17
River bluffs | EP587 – 7/26/21

Rivers and trains | EP129 – 9/24/12
Roanoke River or basin | EP360 – 3/20/17; EP374 – 6/26/17; EP426 – 6/25/18; EP583 – 6/28/21

Rockfish River | EP486 – 8/19/19
Shenandoah River or basin | EP130 – 10/1/12; EP331 – 8/29/16; EP355 – 2/13/17; EP447 – 11/19/18; EP583 – 6/28/21

Sinking Creek (Giles County) | EP447 – 11/19/18
Smith River | EP360 – 3/20/17; EP447 – 11/19/18; EP485 – 8/12/19
Staunton River | EP374 – 6/26/17

Stream/river channel energy and patterns | EP248 – 1/12/15

Virginia's Peninsulas | EP273 – 7/6/15
Virginia Rivers Quiz (mentions watersheds of Big Sandy, Clinch, Chowan, Dan, Holston, James, New, Potomac, Powell, Rappahannock, Roanoke, Shenandoah, Yadkin, and York) | EP586 – 7/19/21
Virginia Surface Water Numbers | EP539 – 8/24/20
Watersheds | EP209 – 4/14/14; EP581 – 6/14/21; EP582 – 6/21/21; EP583 – 6/28/21; EP585 – 7/12/21; EP586 – 7/19/21; EP587 – 7/26/21; EP588 – 8/2/21; EP589 - 8/9/21
Wetlands | EP269 – 6/8/15, EP327 – 8/1/16; EP380 – 8/7/17 (and natural gas pipelines); EP429 – 7/16/18; EP430 – 7/23/18; EP479 – 7/1/19 (Dismal Swamp); ; EP511 – 2/10/20 (salt marshes and Saltmarsh Sparrow)
York River | EP364 - 12/12/16; EP390 – 10/16/17; EP587 – 7/26/21

Science

Air pollution | EP230 – 9/8/14
Algae (including Phytoplankton) | EP171 – 7/22/13; EP279 - 8/24/15; EP280 – 9/7/15; EP298 – 1/11/16 (as part of lichens)
Biodiversity | EP260 – 4/6/15; EP368 – 5/15/17; EP651 - 3/20/23
Bioluminescence | EP278 – 8/17/15
Buoyancy | EP299 – 1/18/16 (in SCUBA); EP483 – 7/29/19
Christmas Bird Count | EP607 – 12/13/21
Density | EP255 - 3/2/15; EP299 – 1/18/16 (in SCUBA); EP483 – 7/29/19 (in buoyancy)
Dissolved Oxygen | EP299 – 1/18/16 (in SCUBA); EP333 – 9/12/16
Drones (Unmanned Aerial Systems) | EP384 - 9/4/17
eBird | EP440 – 10/1/18
Evaporation | EP313 – 4/25/16 (in bees)
Fungi | EP298 – 1/11/16 (as part of lichens)
Geography | EP265 - 5/11/15
Human circulatory system | EP593 – 9/6/21
Human muscular system | EP596 – 9/27/21
Human nervous system | EP594 – 9/13/21
Human skeletal system | EP595 – 9/20/21
Invasive species | EP321 – 6/20/16; EP383 – 8/28/17; EP415 – 4/9/18
Living vs. Non-Living, for Kindergarten | EP282 – 9/21/15

Lichens | EP298 – 1/11/16
Long-term Ecological Research Sites | EP283 – 9/25/15
The Moon | EP 481 - 7/15/19
Nitrogen | EP279 - 8/24/15; EP280 – 9/7/15
Photosynthesis | EP602 – 11/8/21
Physical/chemical properties of water | EP207 – 3/31/14 (relative humidity); EP210 – 4/21/14 (as a solvent); EP217 – 6/9/14; EP250 - 1/26/15; EP255 - 3/2/15; EP299 – 1/18/16 (in SCUBA); EP313 – 4/25/16 (evaporation in bees); EP333 – 9/12/16 (on dissolved gases); EP404 – 1/22/18; EP407 – 2/12/18; EP483 – 7/29/19 (buoyancy, drag, density, and viscosity); EP556 – 12/21/20 (ice effects on organisms); EP594 – 9/13/21 (as a biological solvent); EP606 – 12/6/21; EP610 – 1/3/22; EP617 – 2/21/22
Phytoplankton | EP171 – 7/22/13; EP279 - 8/24/15

Rainbows | EP225 – 8/4/14

Relative humidity | EP207 – 3/31/14

Rock cycle | EP203 – 3/3/14
Sonification | EP283 – 9/25/15

Space | EP 481 - 7/15/19
Stream assessment with aquatic macroinvertebrates | EP81 – 9/26/11
Stream flow measurement | EP324 – 7/11/16; EP546 – 10/12/20
Streams underground | EP409 – 2/26/18
Stream/river channel energy and patterns | EP560 – 1/18/21
Streamside insect and spider sampling | EP336 – 10/3/16
Surface tension | EP217 – 6/9/14
Tides | EP441 – 10/8/18; EP481 - 7/15/19
Temperature in animals | EP309 - 3/28/16
Virginia college students' research | on antibiotic resistance: EP290 – 11/16/15; on avian malaria: EP259 – 3/30/15; on buried streams underground: EP409 – 2/26/18; on the Emerald Ash Borer: EP376 – 7/10/17; on headwater streams: EP582 – 6/21/21; on oysters and nitrogen: EP280 – 9/7/15; on soils and greenhouse gases: EP312 – 4/18/16; on water utility customers' trust: EP564 – 2/15/21.
Virginia Tech students' Virginia Water Lessons | EP244 – 12/15/14

Virtual reality research | EP342 – 11/14/16 (on tornadoes at Virginia Tech)
Underwater Environment | EP299 – 1/18/16

Water and human biology | EP466 – 4/1/19; EP517 – 3/23/20 (on COVID-19); EP519 – 4/6/20 (on COVID-19); EP592 – 8/30/21; EP593 – 9/6/21; EP594 – 9/13/21; EP595 – 9/20/21; EP596 – 9/27/21; EP598 – 10/11/21 (on influenza); EP600 – 10/25/21 (on viruses generally); EP601 – 10/31/21
Water as a solvent | EP210 – 4/21/14; EP333 – 9/12/16; EP594 – 9/13/21
Water cycle | EP191 – 12/9/13; EP198 – 1/27/14; EP480 – 7/8/19; EP585 – 7/12/21

Water resources degree at Virginia Tech | EP243 – 12/8/14
Water quantity | EP546 – 10/12/20; EP569 – 3/22/21
Water thermodynamics | EP610 – 1/3/22

Water Quality, including Waste Management and Water/Wastewater Treatment

Emerging Contaminants | EP499 – 11/18/19

Fishing-line recycling | EP590 – 8/16/21

Medication disposal | EP417 – 4/23/18

Motor oil and water | EP188 – 11/18/13
Natural Gas Pipeline Issues | EP380 – 8/7/17
Nitrogen | EP279 - 8/24/15; EP280 – 9/7/15
River stewardship | EP383 – 8/28/17

Solid-waste recycling, energy, and water | EP240 – 11/17/14
Wastewater treatment plants | EP378 – 7/24/17
Water monitoring | EP81 – 9/26/11 (stream assessment with aquatic macroinvertebrates), EP384 - 9/4/17 (using drones, or Unmanned Aerial Systems); EP414 – 4/2/18 (water-quality monitoring);
EP529 – 6/15/20 (biennial water-quality assessment report, including impaired waters and TMDLs); EP537 – 8/10/20 (Chesapeake Bay conditions); EP632 – 7/18/22 (Chesapeake Bay Conditions)

Water quality and coal | EP97 – 1/30/12; EP98 – 2/6/12; EP99 – 2/13/12
Waterways Cleanups | EP180 Revisited – 8/31/15; EP383 – 8/28/17

Weather/Climate/Natural Disasters

Climate and Climate Change (including Sea-level Rise) | EP231 – 9/15/14; EP312 – 4/18/16; EP441 – 10/8/18 (sea level rise and king tides); EP494 – 10/14/19 (sea level rise and coastal flooding); EP511 – 2/10/20 (on sea-level rise and the Saltmarsh Sparrow); EP552 – 11/23/20 (on sea-level rise and Virginia planning); EP602 – 11/8/21 (on photosynthesis and 2021 international climate conference); EP608 – 12/20/21 (update on Virginia planning for sea-level rise)
Clouds | EP377 – 7/17/17
Drought | EP546 – 10/12/20 (information source)
Earthquake drills | EP388 – 10/2/17

Earthquake research | EP133 – 10/22/12

Floods | EP272 – 6/29/15 (Madison County in 1995); EP328 – 8/8/16 (flash flooding); EP441 – 10/8/18 (sea level rise and coastal flooding); EP442 – 10/15/18 (historic-record water level marker dedication at New River); EP486 – 8/19/19 (from Hurricane Camille in Nelson County in 1969); EP494 – 10/14/19 (sea level rise and coastal flooding); EP546 – 10/12/20 (information source)
Fog | EP512 – 2/17/20
Freezing Rain | EP613 – 1/24/22
Frost | EP597 – 10/4/21
Hail | EP362 – 4/3/17
Ice | EP404 – 1/22/18; EP556 – 12/21/20; EP606 – 12/6/21; EP617 – 2/21/22
Rainfall/Precipitation generally | EP338 – 10/17/16 (frequency probabilities); EP455 – 1/14/19 (record precipitation in 2018); EP546 – 10/12/20 (information sources); EP559 – 1/11/21 (record precipitation in 2020)

Severe Weather Awareness Week | EP650 – 3/6/23
Sleet | EP613 – 1/24/22
Snow | EP407 – 2/12/18; EP612 – 1/17/22 (snow terms); EP613 – 1/24/22

Storm surge | EP134 – 10/29/12; EP337 – 10/10/16; EP385 – 9/11/17; EP489 – 9/9/19
Stormwater | EP182 – 10/7/13; EP338 – 10/17/16; EP468 – 4/15/19 (storm-drain markers); EP585 – 7/12/21
Tornadoes | EP342 – 11/14/16 (research via virtual reality); EP568 – 3/15/21 (preparedness, safety, statewide drill)

Tropical Cyclones (Hurricanes and Tropical Storms) | EP134 – 10/29/12 (Hurricane Sandy); EP163 – 5/27/13 (annual season-preview episode); EP215 – 5/26/14 (annual season-preview episode); EP266 - 5/18/15 (annual season-preview episode); EP317 - 5/23/16 (annual season-preview episode); EP330 - 8/22/16 (mid-season outlook); EP337 – 10/10/16 (Hurricane Matthew); EP345 - 12/5/16 (season-review episode); EP369 - 5/22/17 (annual season-preview episode); EP385 – 9/11/17 (Hurricane Irma and storm surge); EP423 - 6/2/18 (annual season-preview episode); EP438 - 9/17/18 (basic hurricane facts and history); EP474 - 5/27/19 (annual season-preview episode); EP526 - 5/25/20 (annual season-preview episode); EP580 - 6/7/21 (annual season-preview episode); EP629 - 6/6/22 (annual season-preview episode)
Weather balloons | EP532 – 7/6/20

Weather messages | EP470 – 4/29/19

Winter precipitation and water supplies | EP567 - 3/8/21
Winter preparedness | EP139 – 12/3/12; EP145 – 1/21/13; EP190 – 12/2/13; EP242 - 12/1/14; EP253 - 2/16/15 (repeat of 242); EP292 - 11/30/15; EP344 – 11/28/16; EP396 – 11/27/17; EP448 – 11/26/18; EP501 – 12/2/19; EP553 – 11/30/20; EP605 – 11/29/21; EP643 – 12/5/22

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