RACC intern Lawrence Bronnvik spent the summer working with Dr. Don Ross (Department of Plant and Soil Science - Soil Chemistry) and Dr. Beverley Wemple, (Geography Department - Hydrology) assessing soil nutrients in Lake Champlain stream corridors.
Lawrence completed fieldwork including sampling soils along stream corridors of the Missisquoi and Winooski watersheds to determine the gradient of phosphorus and nitrogen towards the stream banks and with depth in the soil profile. He also worked in the lab, processing and analyzing these samples and additional stream and lake sediment samples for N, P and a suite of other parameters. This soils research coordinated with other researchers investigating stream and lake processes.