Science on Tap New River Valley: The Prospects of Poop
Venue: Rising Silo Farm Brewery, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Thursday, November 20, 2025
Time: 5:30 - 7:00 PM
Event Types: Speaking Engagements, STEM Events
Cost: Free
Science on Tap New River Valley presents their November event titled "The Prospects of Poop: What can bat guano tell us about past environments in Virginia?" on Thursday, November 20, 2025 at Rising Silo Farm Brewery.
It's easy to dismiss poop as waste, but poop actually contains a lot of information about animal diets, behavior, and the environments they live in.
Join Rachel Reid, a research assistant professor in the Department of Geosciences at Virginia Tech, to learn about how information contained in bat poop can be used to uncover past landscapes, from the types of plants present to the frequency of fires. Then, find out how your diet influences your chemical composition, and how it can be measured (no poop required).
Admission is free and all are welcome.
Hosted by the Center for Communicating Science at Virginia Tech and Virginia Tech's chapter of Sigma Xi.
Rising Silo Farm Brewery is located at 2351 Glade Road in Blacksburg, VA.
To view the event flyer, visit: https://i.postimg.cc/jS51ChFh/image.png.
For more information on the event, visit: https://communicatingscience.isce.vt.edu/css-events/upcoming-events/nov-2025-sot.html or https://www.facebook.com/events/13207012126949712 or https://www.instagram.com/scienceontapnrv/.
For more information on Rising Silo, visit: http://www.risingsilobrewery.com/ or https://www.facebook.com/risingsilobrewery or https://www.instagram.com/risingsilobrewery/ or call 540-750-0796.
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