Cyanobacteria-focused Education Trip on Lake Champlain for Science Writers and Media
Date/Time: Tuesday, July 7, from 10 AM–12 PM
Location: 3 College St, Burlington, VT (on the south side of the Rubenstein Ecosystem Sciences/ECHO building). Please note that parking there requires an hourly payment.
A trip aboard the R/V Marcelle Melosira will be offered for science writers and media from across the Lake Champlain Basin on July 7 from 10:00 AM to noon. This trip on Lake Champlain will focus on cyanobacteria blooms and will include short presentations by several leading researchers in the Lake Champlain Basin about the status of cyanobacteria blooms in the lake and other waterbodies in the Basin.
There will be an opportunity for the trip participants to engage in one-on-one interviews with the researchers and a hands-on activity/demonstration (challenge by choice) to sample the lake water and see some of the cyanobacteria up close through microscopes connected to a large screen display in the classroom aboard the R/V.
Registration is on a first-come, first-served basis.