Resources

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.

A public service announcement about road salt and how and why to minimize its use to protect our waterways.

This scientific journal article by Suzanne Levine analyzed the distribution and accumulation of P in varying parts of the Lake Champlain Basin. 11 core sites were determined around the lake and the cores were analyzed in a lab for stable isotopes, pigments, diatoms, nutrients, 210Pb dating, etc. The sediment accumulation rates between the different cores varied dramatically. Concentrations of P varied both spatially and temporally in the analyses. The analysis split the historic accumulation of P into four intervals of development in the Lake Champlain Basin, pre-settlement, early-settlement, mid-settlement, and modern.

Lake Champlain Sea Grant's Watershed Alliance hosted an educational STEM Watershed Science Fair in partnership with CFES Brilliant Pathways at their facility in Essex, New York in February 2020. Students learned about the watershed and its impact on the community in which they live.

With school closings in spring 2020 due to COVID-19, we remained committed to our mission to develop and share science-based knowledge to benefit the environment and economies of the Lake Champlain basin. Our Education Team responded with a webinar series featuring scientists and their research related to Lake Champlain and its watershed twice weekly.

This curriculum guide provides lesson plans for teaching grades 3-5 about watershed science and stewardship.