National Sea Grant awarded $240,000 for 2001-2003 to fund strategic applied research on living aquatic resources and watersheds in the Lake Champlain Basin. Projects completed in August 2003 focused on the management of rainbow smelt and on the impact of cormorant management on lake fish populations.

Research funds amounting to $160,000 per year for two years supported applied research in 2004-2005 on the Basin's lakes, their watersheds, and coastal and aquatic resources.

Lake Champlain Sea Grant currently supports five research projects for 2004-2006.