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The Social Systems Team continued to move ahead with a very productive Fall meeting held on September 26, 2017 at the VT EPSCoR Interdisciplinary Research Space at 23 Mansfield Avenue. Year 2 Milestones and deliverables were discussed with the whole team including BREE researchers from the Ecological and Integrated Assessment Model Teams.

My Champlain Valley FOX44 & ABC22
This Place in History: Eighteen Hundred and Froze to Death
My Champlain Valley FOX44 & ABC22
Vermont State Climatologist Dr. Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux explained the science behind the 'Year Without a Summer'. "The event that took place in April of 1815 was the eruption of Mt. Tambora, Indonesia. It produced this amazing amount of ash and dust ...

Scott Hamshaw, a PhD candidate with Vermont EPSCoR, presented his doctoral dissertation defense on Tuesday, September 12, 2017. The defense, "Fluvial processes in Motion: Measuring Streambank Erosion and Suspended Sediment Flux using Advanced Geomatics and Machine Learning," examined streambank erosion and the resulting sediment increase in the Lake Champlain Basin area.

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Cyanobacteria Bloom Forces Beach Closure
U.S. News & World Report
University of Vermont professor Andrew Schroth says the bacteria thrive in warm still water where phosphorus from runoff sources is present. Cyanobacteria pose a threat to humans and marine organisms. Most local beaches didn't see blooms this summer.
Late bloom of cyanobacteria closes Burlington beachesBurlingtonFreePress.com

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New publication written by Alan K. Betts and Anton C. M. Beljaars. Published in Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems September 13, 2017.

10.1002/2017MS001025

We quantify the biases in the diurnal cycle of temperature in ERA-Interim for both warm and cold season using hourly climate station data for four stations in Saskatchewan from 1979 to 2006. The warm season biases increase as opaque cloud cover decreases, and change substantially from April to October. The bias in mean temperature increases almost monotonically from small negative values in April to small positive values in the fall.

Drs. Matthew White, Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of Vermont and Laurie Grigg, from the Department of Geology and Environmental Science at Norwich University, were each awarded an individual RII Track-4 from the National Science Foundation for their respective research.

During the Senate Appropriations Committee staff's visit, five of the VT EPSCoR BREE interns had the chance to briefly introduce their research. The interns talked about the broad scope of research that happens under BREE.

Two new journal articles co-authored by BREE Team Leader Asim Zia were recently published in the Journal on Policy and Complex Systems.

St. Albans Messenger
Sensors deployed in St. Albans Bay
St. Albans Messenger
One of the researchers, Andrew Schroth, an assistant professor of geology at the University of Vermont, gave a brief overview of the project at the St. Albans Area Watershed Association (SAAWA) annual meeting Thursday night at the St. Albans Bay Park ...

Interns and mentors from Vermont EPSCoR's BREE Climate Team visited Dartmouth College in July 2017 to share their findings with colleagues.

Declan McCabe, PhD, Professor of Biology at Saint Michael's College and member of BREE, led a macroinvertebrate workshop for educators in his laboratory on July 19, 2017. The hands on workshop offered middle and high school instructors tools with which they could incorporate the study of aquatic ecosystems into their curricula.