May 2012 Ross to participate in Focus Program on Geometry, Mechanics, and Dynamics: the Legacy of Jerry Marsden, my PhD advisor and friend; at the Fields Insititute, Toronto, in July

May 2012 Ross is organizing a session on Geometric and probabilistic methods in flow dynamics to be held at the upcoming International Conference on Flow Dynamics (ICFD), September 19-21, 2012 in Sendai, Japan. In interested in speaking at this session, contact me.

May 2012 Congratulations to Asteroid Capture Senior Design team Aleks, Andy, James, and Peter on winning both ESM Senior Project Awards!

May 2012 Ross named a Virginia Tech College of Engineering Faculty Fellow and wins Certificate of Teaching Excellence

April 2012 Near-Earth asteroid retrieval: See our new academic study on Asteroid capture using a binary exchange mechanism, there is also a shorter conference paper version. See videos here: [1], [2], [3]. A captured asteroid could provide additional natural resources to supplement Earth's, and spur a space-based economy beyond the Earth. See an online slide show of the idea.

April 2012 New paper on "Small fluctuations in the recovery of fusaria across consecutive sampling intervals with unmanned aircraft 100 m above ground level" accepted to Aerobiologia

April 2012 Slides from talk at BIRS posted here

March 2012 New MultiSTEPS website launched

February 2012 VT news story on CAREER award. Also at TMC Net with 400,000 unique visitors

January 2012 Ross receives NSF CAREER Award through the Dynamical Systems program. Read the press release.

November 2011 Ross has new paper in the journal American Biology Teacher on teaching high school students about how barriers shape where organisms go, with Cindy Bohland and David Schmale

October 2011 Ross gave talk at the Society of Engineering Science meeting, available here, at session on Vortex Dynamics and Future Directions in Fluid Dynamics in Honor of Hassan Aref.