William "Breck" Bowden
Patrick Professor of Watershed Science & Planning
Director, Vermont Water Resources and Lake Studies Center

Research Interests: Land-water interactions, arctic ecosystem ecology, stormwater management, integrated catchment management.
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Andrea Lini
Associate Professor, Department of Geology

Research Interests: Paleolimnology

David Capen
Professor, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources

Research Interests: Applied avian ecology and wildlife habitat studies, especially landscape-level approaches to habitat analysis

Alan McIntosh
Professor, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources
Program Chair, Environmental Sciences

Research Interests: Fate and effects of toxic contaminants in freshwater ecosystems, use of stream benthic macroinvertebrates as indicators of pollution

Gregory Druschel
Assistant Professor, Department of Geology
Director, University of Vermont iRWE Environmental Microbiology Laboratory

Research Interests: Interdependence of microbial activity and geochemical cycling.
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Ellen Marsden
Associate Professor, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources

Research Interests: Great Lakes fisheries restoration and ecology, with particular emphasis on native species restoration and impacts of exotic species
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Doug Facey
Professor, Department of Biology, St. Michael's College
Executive Director, Lake Champlain Research Consortium

Research Interests: Fish community diversity and stability, indicators of water quality, physiological indicators of environmental stress in fishes
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Donna Parrish
Associate Professor, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources

Research Interests: Effects of habitat and species interactions on fish populations and communities in Vermont
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Suzanne Levine
Associate Professor, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources
Coordinator, Aquatic Ecology and Watershed Science Concentration

Research Interests: Food web and nutrient limitation studies in Lake Champlain, examination of stable isotope patterns in lakes, remote sensing of cyanobacterial blooms, and paleolimnological investigations of lake's response to changing land use
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Mary Watzin
Director, Rubenstein Ecosystem Science Laboratory
Professor, Rubenstein School of the Environment and Natural Resources

Research Interests: Toxic cyanobacteria, water quality, ecosystem health, food web dynamics, zebra mussels, land use change, geomorphic assessment, agricultural pollutants in streams.

Leman "Tiger" Bronson
Research Technician

Current Project: Toxic cyanobacteria monitoring in Lake Champlain

Lula Ghebremichael
Post-doctoral Associate

Research Interests: Modeling phosphorus control best management practices

Bethany Hanna
Watershed Alliance Coordinator

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Meredith Curling
Research Technician

Current Project: Vermont stream flow monitoring project

Joanna Hatt
Research Technician

Current Project: Lake whitefish status and population dynamics in Lake Champlain

Eric Davis
Research Technician

Current Project: Vermont stream flow monitoring project

Ethan Joseph
Research Technician

Current Project: Vermont stream flow monitoring project

Marc Eisenhower
Deckhand, RV Melosira

Research Interests: Cormorant-fish population dynamics

Chris Lang
Research Technician

Current Project: Vermont stream flow monitoring project

Michael Flinn
Post-doctoral Associate

Current research: Assessing the influence of lithology on macroinvertebrate communities of the Noatak Arctic Preserve in Northwest Alaska as part of the Inventory and Monitoring Program US Park Service-Arctic Network

Research Interests: Large river floodplain ecology, invertebrate community responses to hydrology and lithology, climate change and influence on arctic freshwater resources, interaction between aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, invertebrate community response to watershed disturbance

Neale Mahoney
Research Technician

Current Project: Vermont stream flow monitoring project

Susan Fuller
Senior Research Technician
Lab Manager

Current Project: Toxic cyanobacteria and water quality monitoring in Lake Champlain

Cynthia May
Research Technician

Current Projects: Emerging threats in Lake Champlain; Toxic cyanobacteria and water quality monitoring in Lake Champlain

Richard Furbush
Captain, RV Melosira

Research Interests: Lake hydrodynamics, biological responses to ecosystem processes, fisheries and wildlife issues

Joseph Bartlett
M.S. Candidate

Julia Larouche
M.S. Candidate

Influence of lithology and biogeochemistry on biofilm microbial communities in Arctic Alaskan streams

Wayne Bouffard
M.S. Candidate
Fish Biologist, US Fish & Wildlife

Using sea lamprey migratory pheromone as an attractant within tributary systems

Joel Nipper
Ph.D. Candidate

Mike Harrington
M.S. Candidate

Using female choice experiments to investigate responses to sex pheromone in sea lamprey

Jake Riley
M.S. Candidate

Limits on post-emergent lake trout survival in Lake Champlain

Amanda Holland
M.S. Candidate

Changes in soil dynamics in an urban landscape: linking development to soil processes

Paul Simonin
Ph.D. Candidate

Rainbow smelt population dynamics and the impacts of an expanding alewife population in Lake Champlain

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