LCSG Research Webinar Series returns, learn about the events and register in advance

By Anna Marchessault
August 19, 2025

Lake Champlain Sea Grant is pleased to announce our fall research webinar series! Since 2019, LCSG has organized monthly webinars during the academic year to share current research methods, findings, and outreach initiatives with our staff, partners, and community members. This semester, we have a great line-up of presenters, and there’s something for everyone!

Each webinar will take place from 12–1 pm on Zoom. Registration in advance is required. You can find all of these on our events page or register for them through the links below.

We will kick off the series on Wednesday, September 26, with a presentation from Andrew Brown, Stormwater Regional Utility Research Partnered Fellow with LCSG and six municipalities. Over the course of the fellowship, Brown examined the full range of MS4 compliance activities, collected and analyzed cost data, reviewed governance options, and gathered input from municipal staff and partners. The work provides insights into how towns can collaborate to meet stormwater obligations more effectively. By looking at both financial and organizational opportunities, the fellowship points toward practical strategies for protecting our shared natural resources in ways that are sustainable and cost-effective.

On Wednesday October 29, Nico Perdrial, associate professor at the University of Vermont, will present on his recent project focused on drinking water residuals (DWTRs) and their potential to sorp Phosphorus. Initial findings from the study find the filter successfully sorps Phosphorus in a low-cost way, which has the potential way to reduce nutrient input and recycle Phosphate and spent DWTRs.

November 19’s webinar will focus on plastic pollution, particularly what the Lake Champlain Marine Debris Coalition is doing around it. The team carried out a series of surveys of businesses and property owners this summer to understand the use and sale of foam-based products such as docks, buoys, take-away containers, coolers, and bait buckets. This presentation will summarize high-level findings of these surveys and share ideas for outreach to address barriers individuals and businesses face in using encapsulated foam or non-foam products on and near the lake.

The last webinar of the series will be on December 17, and will feature Michale Glennon from the Adirondack Watershed Institute presenting on her recent LCSG-funded research project. This project examines how lakeshore management affects wildlife diversity and habitat use on Upper Saranac Lake, one of the largest lakes in the Adirondack Park. 

We’re looking forward to all these presentations and hope you can join us! If you have any questions or accessibility concerns, please message seagrant [at] uvm.edu.