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RACC member Dr. Alan Betts discusses Climate Change in Vermont on "The 30" a news program on Vermont CBS affiliate WCAX.

The Weekly Planet: Celebrate Mother Earth today
Barre Montpelier Times Argus
We are all in this together. Let us take joy in the transformation and ask: “Do we really treasure Mother Earth?” Alan Betts is Vermont's leading climate scientist and a past president of the Vermont Academy of Science and Engineering. He lives in ...

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Leahy Announces $230000 For ('Great') Lake Champlain
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Breck Bowden, director of UVM's Lake Champlain Sea Grant Program, said: “We deeply appreciate Senator Leahy's efforts to support critical funding for NOAA's National Sea Grant College Program, which directly funds the Lake Champlain Sea Grant project.

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The diversity of the world’s life forms — from corals to carnivores — is under assault. Decades of scientific studies document the fraying of ecosystems and a grim tally of species extinctions due to destroyed habitat, pollution, climate change, invasives and overharvesting.

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Glaciers are commonly thought to work like a belt sander. As they move over the land they scrape off everything — vegetation, soil, and even the top layer of bedrock. So scientists were greatly surprised to discover an ancient tundra landscape preserved under the Greenland Ice Sheet, below two miles of ice.

Dr. Jason Stockwell, Direcor, Rubenstein Ecosystem Science Lab, has received tenure at the University of Vermont. Dr. Stockwell joined UVM and the VT EPSCoR Adaptation to Climate Change in the Lake Champlain Basin: New Understanding through Complex Systems (RACC) program in 2011. Dr. Stockwell was also recently awarded from the National Science Foundation (NSF) a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) grant.

Antonio Cepeda-Benito, the Dean of UVM's College of Arts and Sciences has announced the names of the faculty members in the College of Arts and Sciences who have just been tenured and/or promoted. The work of these faculty members is testimony to the very high standards set in this College. Their records of scholarly and creative accomplishments, their success as teachers, and their contributions to their professions, the University, the College and the community are impressive indeed.

The 2013 RACC Water Quality Survey seeks to understand
Vermonters’ attitudes toward, and awareness of, water quality, climate change, and individual
and social responsibility for both.

What to Do: Gardening in a changing climate
WCAX
But before you start planning, there is a workshop Saturday about the impact on climate change on gardening. We sat down with State Climatologist Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux to learn more about this issue. So if you'd like to go to that workshop -- it's ...

Short TED-style presentations by students, faculty, and local researchers on Adirondack climate-related topics including mink frogs, Lyme disease, lake ice, and ways to enlist the arts in science communication.

A wide range of displays and activities by painters, basket-makers, and other folk and visual artists from the North Country, focusing on the land, people, and climate of the Adirondacks, Organized by TAUNY and Saranac Lake artists.

North Country musicians Peggy Lynn, Dan Berggren, Celia Evans, Jamie Savage, Larry Montague, and others perform between TED-axe talks, focusing on the land, people, and climate of the Adirondacks. Liz Stookey Sunde will show how "Music2Life" uses music to get your message across.

Drs. Judith Van Houten,VT State EPSCoR Director, William Breck Bowden, Donna Rizzo and Taylor Ricketts were honored at the first-ever Investiture of UVM Endowed Professors on April 16, 2014 at the Ira Allen Chapel at the University of Vermont (UVM), representing three different colleges at UVM - - Arts & Sciences, the Rubinstein School of Environment and Natural Resources and the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences. President Tom Sullivan has committed to doubling the number of endowed faculty positions by 2019. There are currently 84 endowed positions at UVM.

Dr. Van Houten holds the Perkins Professorship; Dr. Bowden holds the Robert F. and Genevieve B. Patrick Chair; Dr. Rizzo holds the Dorothean Chair of Engineering and Science and Dr. Ricketts holds the Gund Professorship of Ecological Economics.

Boulder's University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, which manages the National Center for Atmospheric Research under sponsorship by the National Science Foundation, has launched what is calls ClimateVoices.org, a database of experts on climate change from around the country. Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux, associate professor of geography and Vermont state climatologist, has been chosen as one of three experts from Vermont.

Corine Farewell, Director of the Office of Technology Commercialization was the speaker at the 8th RACC Seminar held at 23 Mansfield on 4-10-2014. Her presentation was entitled "Intellectual Property - why it is important to you".

UVM Students and Alumni Receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
UVM News
Under the guidance of Carol Adair, Juice is studying consequences of climate change on forests in the northeastern U.S. In her work, Juice focuses on how climate change affects ecosystem services such as carbon storage and the ability of forests to ...

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Icy Research Drills Down on Summer Algae Blooms
UVM News
It's like taking the pulse of the lake, says UVM geologist Andrew Schroth. He and biologist Jason Stockwell, director of UVM's Rubenstein Ecosystem Science Laboratory, are supervising these students as they all look for the geochemical triggers for ...

Hannah Choiniere, RACC Streams Project high school participant and Missisquoi Valley Union High School student, won several prizes for her research poster titled "Can buffer strips reduce the effects of nutrient runoff from fields on water quality in Vermont?"

Many members of the RACC team attended and presented at the New England Association of Environmental Biologists (NEAEB) 38th annual conference, held in Burlington, Vermont this past March 26th through the 28th. The conference draws participants from all New England State environmental departments, the Federal government, professionals from NGOs, other public/private groups, and academia, to present, share, and discuss topics of environmental protection, conversation, and water resources management. Among those that presented their research were RACC members Peter Isles, Chris Koliba, Asim Zia, Kristen Underwood, Declan McCabe, Bob Genter, YaoYang Xu, and Scott Hamshaw. Other contributors included Andrew Schroth and past EPSCoR RACC undergraduate interns, Anne Burnham and Hannah Kittler, and CWDD Technician Katie Chang. An opening plenary on Climate Change was given by Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux, the Vermont State Climatologist. Stakeholder, Dr. Curt Stager, from Paul Smith's College also participated in the workshop.

The Integrated Assessment Model (IAM) group, led by Dr. Asim Zia, met on March 19, 2014 with the whole group to share progress and discuss next steps towards meeting milestones for the upcoming year.