Resources

These videos will take you through how to build an aquaponics system for your home, office, or school from start to finish. Follow along with Dr. Theo Willis as he explains what materials you need, necessary modifications, and the process of setting this up from beginning to end.

This guide shows how to use the web-based Vermont Natural Resources Atlas which provides geographic information about environmental features and sites that the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources manages, monitors, permits, or regulates.

A 2023 overview of the Lake Champlain Sea Grant Institute.

In this webinar, Mark Mitchell of Lake Champlain Sea Grant and the Vermont Department of Conservation discusses the history and the future of the Vermont Lay Lakes Monitoring Program.

In this talk, we introduce decision-support tools for evaluating the multiple, and sometimes incompatible, objectives of different decision-makers for management of floodplains. These tools, developed with Sea Grant support, aim to balance stakeholder objectives and refine the rankings of restoration projects developed under Vermont’s Functioning Floodplain Initiative. Because phosphorus attenuation is a critical objective amongst most stakeholders to meet clean water goals for Lake Champlain, research on the capacity of connected floodplains to capture flood-borne phosphorus is also described. These tools were designed to support a systems-based management approach that best meets multiple stakeholder objectives to promote consensus decision making and cost-effective implementation of nature-based solutions.

Lake Champlain Sea Grant and the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation hosted this Abenaki Water Perspectives panel discussion with speakers Chief Don Stevens, Melody Mackin and Rich Holschuh. View both a full recorded version (1 hour and 25 minutes) and a short version that features the highlights (4 minutes).

Conservation Research Fellow Cassie Wolfanger with Audubon Vermont and Lake Champlain Sea Grant wrote this news story about Burlington, Vermont's Intervale Center and its on-farm habitat enhancement for biodiversity conservation with co-benefits of flood protection and climate change.

We teamed up with Peregrine Productions to create this video about an aquaponics farm in Vermont. Finn and Roots is housed in a 6,000 square foot greenhouse which raises fish and grows vegetables year round.

We teamed up with Peregrine Productions to create this video about an aquaculture shrimp farm in Vermont. Sweet Sound is Vermont's first shrimp aquaculture farm. The fish are raised in recirculating seawater at the farm and are available for retail and wholesale purchase weekly.

This rack card produced by BLUE BTV illustrates best practices for lawn care, such as "Raise the Blade" and "Mow Where You Go" to grow healthier grass and reduce stormwater and pollutant runoff into waterways.