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Presented here is the second of three 2015 Watershed Moments Scholarly Conversations Videos.

"Watershed Moments", features brief, informal discussions between faculty and graduate students or post doctoral associates, sharing and learning about a recent accomplishment in the faculty member's field of expertise with a colleague or student from outside their field of expertise.

This video features:
Dr. Tara Kulkarni, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Norwich University, and Matthew Vaughan, Ph.D. Candidate in the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resouces at UVM.

Presented here is the first of three 2015 Watershed Moments Scholarly Conversations Videos.

"Watershed Moments", features brief, informal discussions between faculty and graduate students or post doctoral associates, sharing and learning about a recent accomplishment in the faculty member's field of expertise with a colleague or student from outside their field of expertise.

This video features:
Dr. Jason Stockwell, Associate Professor and Director of Rubinstein EcoSystem Science Lab at UVM and Sarah Coleman, Ph.D. Candidate in Plant and Soil Science at UVM. Both Dr. Stockwell and Ms. Coleman are members of the VT EPSCoR Research on Adaptation to Climate Change in the Lake Champlain Basin (RACC).

Fellow researchers from around the world are gathering in Burlington, Vermont, for IAGLR's 58th Annual Conference on Great Lakes Research. A great program is in store with four days of scientific sessions and speakers focusing on our theme New Views New Tools. Mark your calendars for May 25-29, 2015. You won't want to miss it!

My Champlain Valley FOX44 & ABC22
UVM Hosts Lake Research Conference for the First Time
My Champlain Valley FOX44 & ABC22
BURLINGTON, Vt.- For the first time, the University of Vermont is drawing hundreds of people from across the world to learn about our environment. This year, the 58th Annual Conference on Great Lakes ... “Lake Champlain is really a great source to pair ...

University of Vermont hosting Great Lakes scientists on shore of not-so-great lake
Minneapolis Star Tribune
"They are really trying to get out of the image of this as a North American Great Lakes society or conferences," said UVM associate professor Jason Stockwell, the director of the Rubenstein Ecosystem Science Laboratory and co-chair of the event along ...

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On Monday, May 11, 2015, the RACC High School team from Aure E Quiles High School in Puerto Rico presented their research at the annual Luquillo LTER Schooolyard Symposium at the University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras Campus. High School students Grecia and Jose presented their oral presentation from their work with Vermont EPSCoR as well as their research conducted with students from Escuela del Bosque in New Mexico. Great work!!

Vermont Environmental Consortium and Vermont Tech present 4th annual Water ...
vtdigger.org
Panelists from educational facilities include Breck Bowden, School of Natural Resources UVM and James Houle, UNH Stormwater Center; and from non-government organizations are Jamey Fidel, VT Natural Resources Council and Eric Clifford, Champlain ...

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Dr. Declan McCabe was promoted to full professor, Biology, at Saint Michael's College. Dr. McCabe is an active mentor and researcher with the Research on Adaptation to Climate Change (RACC). Dr. McCabe's area of expertise is in community ecology. He was instrumental in the development of a macroinvertebrate mobile application developed under RACC. Dr. McCabe provides leadership for the Center for VT EPSCoR Workforce Development and Diversity (CWDD) at Saint Michael's College.

Basement Medicine
Science students win outstanding poster award
Basement Medicine




Held from March 23-25, at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New ...

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On May 4th, 2015, the Center for Workforce Development and Diversity (CWDD) visited the middle school at Bellows Free Academy - Fairfax for a 2-day water quality workshop. Over 55 seventh grade students with their science teacher, Michelle Messier, learned how RACC researchers collect field data, make observations on the biotic/abiotic habitat, and use high-frequency sensors to answer water quality questions related to land use and climate change.

On April 29th, 2015, the Center for Workforce Development and Diversity (CWDD) visited Saint Albans City School and the Hard'ack/Aldis Hill Reserve for a NEWRnet Water Quality Workshop in Saint Albans, VT. There were 57 seventh and eighth grade students with their science teacher Val Loucy. Students worked in small groups to collect field data, make observations on the biotic/abiotic habitat, and learn how scientists use technology to answer regional and local biogeochemical questions related to climate change and land use.

RACC Intern, UVM student, Baxter Miatke's, Honor Thesis Defense with Drs. Bomblies, Schroth and Rizzo

Late spring after extreme winter
Rutland Herald
... by introducing a carbon pollution tax to pay for the long-term costs of increasing greenhouse gas emissions. Alan Betts is a leading climate scientist who works with Atmospheric Research in Pittsford. He can be reached through his website ...

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UVM Students Design for NASA
UVM News
UVM student design After designing their airlock via CAD, and with sign-off from NASA, UVM students got to work building a physical mock-up of the device that demonstrates the concept behind their design: a series of air beams that would push an end ...

UVM-Led Team Receives $7.4 Million USDA Grant to Study Animal Disease ...
UVM News
In addition to Merrill, the SEGS lab was developed by Community and Applied Economics professor Chris Koliba and Asim Zia, an associate professor in the same department. Collaborating research and extension faculty are based at the University of ...

Application Deadline May 18, 2015
* The Marshall Space Flight Center is offering Faculty Fellowships for qualified STEM
faculty at U.S. colleges and universities to conduct research with NASA
colleagues during a ten-week residential program in Huntsville, Alabama.
* Faculty Fellows will receive stipends of $15,000 (Assistant Professor, Research
Faculty), $17,000 (Associate Professor), or $19,000 (Professor).

NASA has awarded 26 grants totaling $9.9 million to help bolster the capacity and competitiveness of 28 states and territories (jurisdictions) in the area of technology research and development.

Through its Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) program, NASA awards Research Infrastructure Development (RID) grants every three to five years to jurisdictions that have not, in the past, participated equitably in aerospace and aerospace-related research activities.

The grants have a three-year period of performance, with renewal each year contingent on annual performance. Each awardee receives $125,000 per year, with the exception of Hawaii and South Carolina, each which receive $150,000 a year in order to also provide funding to the territories that fall under their program purview (Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands, respectively).

Scientific workflows allow researchers to declaratively describe potentially complex applications that are composed of individual computational components. Workflows also include a description of the data and control dependencies between the components. This talk will describe example workflows in various science domains including astronomy, bioinformatics, earthquake science, gravitational-wave physics, and others. It will examine the challenges faced by workflow management systems when executing complex workflows in distributed and high-performance computing environments. In particular the talk will describe the Pegasus Workflow Management System developed at USC/ISI (http://pegasus.isi.edu). Pegasus bridges the scientific domain and the execution environment by automatically mapping high-level workflow descriptions onto distributed resources. As part of this process, Pegasus may transform the workflow based on the workflow properties and the target architecture. The talk will describe the optimizations and techniques developed and used within the Pegasus system to efficiently manage data and computations across heterogeneous computing environments. Pegasus can execute workflows on a laptop, a campus cluster, grids, and clouds. It can handle workflows with a single task or millions of tasks and has been used to manage workflows accessing and generating Terabytes of data. The talk will also look at the challenges and opportunities that upcoming, extreme-scale machines bring to workflow management systems.

Shelburne News
LaunchVT announces contestants, Shelburne's Cyrus Schenck in running
Shelburne News
Davis announced the new prize with Patrick Clemins, Cyber Specialist for Vermont EPSCoR. Clemins commented that “VT EPSCoR is excited to partner with LaunchVT to offer the new $15,000 VT EPSCoR Innovation Cash Prize, a significant addition to our ...

LTS Math and Science students earn honors
The Manchester Journal
LTS also had four student scientists who presented at the 2015 Vermont EPSCoR Science Symposium on March 30. LTS research team members Mark Edmunds, Andrew Chila, and Rocky Ye shared the results of a year-long research project on aquaponics ...