Catch Me If You Can…

Catch Me If You Can…

Elk In Southwest VA Conservation leads to species recovery, population control, and improved human lives. The last Virginia native elk was shot and killed in 1885. In 1926, only two herds remained from initial conservation program in early 1900’s. By 1970, the...

Finding Rudolph: Elk In Southwest Virginia

Initial Design   Our initial design concept involved using a 3DR solo drone, GPS collars, a router, and a computer. The elk are collared with something called a gps xbee. As the elk move throughout the different areas of Buchanan, the team will have already...
BUTTERFLY TECH

BUTTERFLY TECH

Use the sliding gallery on the right to view our project’s process throughout the semester. Claire and Destiny (biology), Christopher and Parker (physics), Nate and Cannan (industrial design) and Saskia (writing, rhetoric and communication) were thrilled to...
The Scimitar-Horned Oryx: A Story of Hope in Conservation Biology

The Scimitar-Horned Oryx: A Story of Hope in Conservation Biology

“Group of ‘extinct’ antelope released into wild in southern Sahara;” “Abu Dhabi releases 54 scimitar-horned oryx in Chad;” “Scimitar-horned oryx calves born in wild.” The story of the Scimitar-horned oryx is well-documented in natural science articles targeted for...
Our Darting Drone

Our Darting Drone

Our team, Wasp Aviation, needed to come up with a way to safely tranquilize a large mammal like the Scimitar-Horned Oryx (read more about these here). The process was long, but ultimately we reached a potential solution to this issue that has taken many lives of both...