Publications

In these two videos produced by the partners of Lawn to Lake, learn about how grass grows and how you can care for your lawn to keep it healthy. A healthy lawn can absorb more rain water which reduces pollutant runoff to our waterways and helps to keep our water clean.

This rack card shares best practices to remain safe while boating at marinas. It is in French and English.

This sign posted at Lake Champlain and Lake George marinas provides COVID-19 safety guidelines for boaters.

Jason Scott's 2020 Master's project to strengthen the ability of marina owners and first responders in the Lake Champlain basin to prepare for and respond to oil and hazardous material spills by facilitating spill response training and providing important educational resources.

A South Burlington, Vermont local newspaper opinion piece by Linda Patterson on healthy lawns and a healthy lake that promotes the Raise the Blade campaign.

In this video, Professor Jason Stockwell, Director of the Wildlife & Fisheries Biology Program and Director of the Rubenstein Ecosystem Science Laboratory at the University of Vermont, provides an update on an international research project that uses long-term data sets to examine how storms impact phytoplankton in lakes. This seminar is part of the Lake Champlain Sea Grant Research Seminar Series.

In this video of a 2020 research webinar, Dr. Jim Sutherland, Scientific Advisor for The Fund for Lake George, and Chris Navitsky, Lake George Waterkeeper, describe a road salt reduction monitoring program in the Lake George basin, coordination with New York State, and how to balance water quality and human safety in winter road maintenance.

In this video of a 2020 research webinar, Rebecca Tharp (Founder/ Scientist, Just Water Consulting, LLC) and Dana Allen (Principal, Fluid State Consulting, LLC) discuss results from monitoring the movement of salts from the Vermont Railway’s Shelburne Transload Facility in the river, wetland, soils, and vegetation at two discharge points from the site. They found that the facility is routinely exporting salt at levels that exceed Vermont Water Quality Standards.

In this video, as part of the Lake Champlain Sea Grant Research Webinar Series, Andres Torizzo, Principal Hydrologist at Watershed Consulting, and Eric Roy, professor at the University of Vermont, give a presentation on ongoing research on the effectiveness of subsurface gravel wetlands on flow attenuation and phosphorus capture, and how chloride impacts performance.

This Powerpoint presentation by Breck Bowden at Sea Grant Week in December 2020 describes Lake Champlain Sea Grant's projects and initiatives that address flood resiliency in the Lake Champlain basin.