Resources

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For Lake Champlain Sea Grant publications that include scientific journal articles, reports, brochures, fact sheets, videos, public service announcements, and other materials about our research, outreach, and education related to the Lake Champlain basin, search below.

Published 2022
This scientific journal article in Agriculture describes Lake Champlain Sea Grant-funded research by University of Vermont scientists who tested water flow and phosphorus export from tile drains on farm lands in Vermont, USA. This study highlights the impacts of current manure management and potential for climate change to increase phosphorus export from tile drainage.

Tracking Lake Trout

Published 2022
This rack card describes Lake Champlain Sea Grant-funded research at ¶¶Òõ̽̽ to track tagged lake trout in Lake Champlain to help guide trout restoration. An email is provided for anglers to contact if they find tagged fish.

Understanding Cyanobacteria

Published 2022
This rack card produced by BLUE BTV describes what cyanobacteria are, how they impact our waterways, and how cities, like Burlington, Vermont, and individuals can take actions to help keep waterways clean and safe.

Published 2021
In this peer-reviewed article by Kris Stepenuck and others, resilience plans of coastal US cities were analyzed based on the Food, Energy, Water, and Transportation (FEWT) nexus approach. The FEWT nexus approach recognizes the interconnectedness of these systems and the importance of using an integrated model in coastal resilience planning to mitigate hazards. They found little evidence the FEWT nexus approach was explicitly used in any of these resilience plans and they found inconsistencies amongst the resilience plans themselves.

Published 2021
This Lake Champlain Sea Grant-funded research classified reach-scale sediment process domains using a Self-Organizing Map (SOM), identified 15 variables that explained 7 classes for 193 reaches in the Northeast US, and improved previous classifications by including degree of floodplain disconnection. SOM visualization tools provided insight into channel evolution processes and sediment regime classification framework supports adaptive river management.

Balancing Hydraulic Control and Phosphorus Removal in Bioretention Media Amended with Drinking Water Treatment Residuals

Published 2021
This scientific journal article by researcher Michael Ament and others describes their investigation of the potential trade-off between phosphorus removal by drinking water treatment residuals and hydraulic conductivity to inform the design of bioretention media. The researchers recommend drinking water treatment residuals be mixed with sand in bioretention media to achieve stormwater drainage and phosphorus reduction. This research was funded by Lake Champlain Sea Grant.

Published 2021
In this peer reviewed article by Kris Stepenuck and others, 20 peer-reviewed articles were identified that focused on food-energy-water systems and coastal resilience. The researchers found that there are strong interdependencies in these systems. Applying this nexus approach to the study of coastal community resilience in the future can help stabilize critical infrastructure in coastal areas during acute hazards.

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