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2014-04-04 - VT EPSCoR Visits the Vermont State House

Tue, 04/01/2014 - 19:23
Sarah Coleman, a graduate student in the Policy & Governance RACC group, visited the Vermont State House to help inform legislators about the crowd sourcing DELPHI survey that seeks input on the the health of the Lake Champlain Basin. Lindsay Wieland, new Director of the VT EPSCoR Center for Workforce Development at Saint Michael's College, Patrick Clemins, VT EPSCoR Cyber Specialist and Lillian Gamache, Project Coordinator for VT EPSCoR also attended and shared information with legislators about VT EPSCoR.
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2014-04-04 - Judith Van Houten Hosts Business Roundtable at I2V Workshop

Tue, 04/01/2014 - 19:23
Dr. Judith Van Houten was an invited Roundtable Discussion Leader at the Invention 2 Venture Conference on April 3, 2014 at the University of Vermont. Dr. Patrick Clemins also attended and provided information about the VT EPSCoR SBIR Phase (0) program.
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2014-04-04 - Record Attendance: 2014 Vermont EPSCoR Student Research Symposium

Tue, 04/01/2014 - 19:23
Record attendance capped off the research year at the VT EPSCoR Center for Workforce Development and Diversity (CWDD) 6th annual Student Research Symposium on Wednesday, April 2, 2014 at the Sheraton Hotel in Burlington, VT.

Over 190 persons attended the symposium which featured 44 high school students representing 18 Vermont school districts, and 3 districts outside Vermont including from as far away as Puerto Rico, in addition to 42 undergraduate students from nine Vermont colleges including the Community College of Vermont, two universities in Puerto Rico, University of Maryland Eastern Shore and Texas A&M University. All of these students conducted research as a part of the Research on Adaptation to Climate Change in the Lake Champlain Basin: New Understanding through Complex Systems (RACC) program funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
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2014-04-03 - Photos: 2014 VT EPSCoR Student Research Sympsoium

Tue, 04/01/2014 - 19:23
Photos from the 6th Annual Vermont EPSCoR Student Research Symposium have been posted to Facebook.
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2014-04-02 - Donna Rizzo - Winner of the 2014 George V. Kidder Outstanding Faculty Award

Tue, 04/01/2014 - 19:23
The UVM Alumni Association has named Donna Rizzo, professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, winner of the 2014 George V. Kidder Outstanding Faculty Award.

The annual award honors full time faculty for excellence in teaching and advising, for their ability to inspire students and have a lasting influence on their lives and for their positive impact on campus life beyond the classroom. Dozens of faculty, alumni and students wrote in support of her nomination.

Rizzo received her doctorate from UVM in 1994 and has been in a tenure-track faculty position since 2002. She has received more than $8 million in research funding and was recently named to the Dorothean Chair in the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, established by Stuart “Red” Martin in honor of his wife, Dorothy, which honors faculty whose work promises to advance the field, who are doing major scholarly work with graduate students, and who teach basic engineering to undergraduates.
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2014-03-28 - Policy & Governance Development Focus Group Held on March 21st, 2014

Wed, 03/19/2014 - 07:53
The RACC Policy and Governance Team (Q3) has been working on developing an agent-based model of water quality management in the Lake Champlain Basin. On March 21st, the Team held its second focus group with local stakeholders to evaluate the model’s development. This focus group invited a range of representatives from Vermont’s civil society. Representatives of the Conservation Law Foundation, Lake Champlain International, Friends of the Winooski, Friends of Northern Lake Champlain, the Lintilhac Foundation, and Vermont Land Trust were able to attend. They provided a range of invaluable insights that will help the RACC Team refine an area of the model that had been underdeveloped prior to this event. All of this made for a successful event for the RACC Team in their efforts to build and validate a model that will be able to anticipate the outcomes of policy scenarios that the team will be identifying in other events.
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2014-03-27 - Asim Zia Presents Two IAM Papers at Conferences in Leipzig Germany and Burlington Vermont

Wed, 03/19/2014 - 07:53
Asim Zia, Integrated Assessment Modeling (IAM) project lead for the Vermont EPSCoR RACC project recently presented two IAM related papers at conferences in Leipzig Germany and Burlington Vermont.
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The Rivers and Montpelier - Montpelier Bridge

Sat, 03/08/2014 - 09:12

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The Rivers and Montpelier
Montpelier Bridge
The city saw major flooding in May 2011 and again, three months later, from tropical storm Irene, which state climatologist Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux, in a recent interview, termed “a wake-up call that we've been listening to . . . making rapid strides ...

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2014-03-11 - Video: Crowdsourcing Solutions to Climate Change

Wed, 02/26/2014 - 14:53
Chris Kolibs, Ph.D., Professor, Science Leader for RACC, talks about RACC and the Crowdsourcing Solutions to Climate Change programs.
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2014-03-07 - Allison Price presents her research findings during the RACC Graduate Student Seminar Series to fellow researchers on March 6, 2014 at the Vermont EPSCoR Interdisciplinary Research Space

Wed, 02/26/2014 - 14:52
Understanding the biogeochemical impacts of land use change and climate variability will require improved understanding of nutrient variability over multiple temporal scales, ranging from days to seasons. We quantified nutrient flux during baseflow and storm events using in situ sensors deployed in headwater streams draining three land use types (forest, suburban, and agriculture) within the Lamprey River watershed in coastal New Hampshire. Two sensor suites were rotated between suburban and agricultural sites from April-December 2012; sensors were deployed permanently in December 2012 (suburban) and March 2013 (agricultural). During baseflow, nitrate concentrations were highest at the agricultural site from June-August. Seasonal variability in nitrate at the suburban site was also pronounced, showing highest concentrations in winter. During storms, dilution of nitrate concentrations occurred at both the suburban and agricultural sites, though in both nitrate flux peaked during high flow. Export ranged from 0.07-9.58 kg km-2 at the agricultural site, 0.21-5.20 kg km-2 at the suburban site, and 0.27-1.10 kg km-2at the forested site. Quantitative hysteresis analysis suggests differing flowpaths for nitrate and chloride through seasons at each site, though patterns in hysteresis characteristics among storms are inconsistent. Time to peak in flux vs. discharge provides information on near vs. far shore sources that can help explain hysteretic patterns. Daily patterns in nitrate flux and chloride appear at all three sites, though daily patterns do not always correlate to metabolic activity. High-frequency datasets for headwater streams will provide insight into complex land use/water quality relationships in urbanizing watersheds, and inform developing models.
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2014-03-03 - Crowdsourcing Solutions to Climate Change

Wed, 02/26/2014 - 14:52
Crowdsourcing Adaptive Interventions: Envisioning what can be done to protect Lake Champlain Basin in the face of Climate Change

Welcome to the Crowdsourcing Solutions to Climate Change for the Lake Champlain Basin Survey. The following information will help you get started, please take a careful look. This survey is designed to be interactive, you have from March 3 through March 31, 2014 to start the survey and engage in the discussion as you choose.
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Invitation to Climate Conversation - UVM News

Wed, 02/26/2014 - 14:52

Invitation to Climate Conversation
UVM News
“We're looking for solutions — creative new ideas from experts and from a diverse set of stakeholders and interested parties,” says UVM professor Chris Koliba, who is helping to lead the effort. “Insuring good water quality for the ... Crowdsourcing ...

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Governor's Institutes of VT releases long-term outcomes study - vtdigger.org

Tue, 02/25/2014 - 18:24

Governor's Institutes of VT releases long-term outcomes study
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Over thirty years, the nonprofit GIV has served 10,000 young people from every Vermont high school through its residential summer and winter Institutes on college campuses, says Executive Director Karen Taylor Mitchell. She notes that for a small ...

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2014-02-21 - Former CSYS Graduate Student Assistant publishes in Science - Dr. Joshua L. Payne, advised by Dr. Maggie Eppstein

Tue, 02/11/2014 - 10:25
Dr. Joshua Payne, a former VT EPSCoR CSYS graduate student has had his first-author paper published in Science. Joshua graduated from UVM's computer science department in 2008 and was a PhD student of Maggie Eppstein (Chair of Computer Science).

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2014-02-11 - Preliminary DOE EPSCoR Implementation Award FOA Announcement - Vermont Process

Tue, 02/11/2014 - 10:25
The Department of Energy has sent out a preliminary notice that there will be a funding opportunity announcement (FOA) about DOE EPSCoR implementation awards.
DOE EPSCoR recent news web page.

You will notice on the DOE EPSCoR website that the Vermont State EPSCoR Committee is responsible for selecting the single letter of intent that will go forward as a full proposal to DOE EPSCoR. We will follow up this message alerting you to the future FOA and with information about the process for Vermont.
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UVM Plays Major Role in Burlington's Tech Hub Status - UVM News

Tue, 02/11/2014 - 10:12

UVM Plays Major Role in Burlington's Tech Hub Status
UVM News
“UVM's role in BTV Ignite is threefold: We will be hosting some of the core technology; we will be helping to increase connectivity through the Internet2 capability that we have in partnership with Vermont EPSCoR; and we will leverage UVM's outstanding ...

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2014-02-06 - RACC Seminar with Rebecca Gorney

Tue, 02/04/2014 - 21:48
Cyanobacteria blooms in shallow eutrophic lakes have been linked to numerous causes. Seasonality, high nutrient levels, and the interacting roles of zooplankton grazing can be important triggers for the growth of inedible and potentially toxic cyanobacteria. The spread of invasive planktivorous fish into lakes can lead to declines in large zooplankton, declines in overall zooplankton biomass and changes in trophic structure in large lakes.
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2014-02-06 - Anju Dahiya: Presented at the Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative meeting January 29th 2014

Tue, 02/04/2014 - 21:48
Using data from 13 climate stations on the Canadian Prairies, together with opaque cloud cover and daily snow depth, to analyze the winter climate transitions with snow, we find that a snow cover acts as a fast climate switch.
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2014-02-06 - Alan Betts: Coupling of winter climate transitions to snow and clouds over the Prairies

Tue, 02/04/2014 - 21:48
Using data from 13 climate stations on the Canadian Prairies, together with opaque cloud cover and daily snow depth, to analyze the winter climate transitions with snow, we find that a snow cover acts as a fast climate switch.
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UVM Launches New Summer Research Program For Students

Mon, 02/03/2014 - 18:10

UVM Launches New Summer Research Program For Students
UVM News
“We have problems with harmful algal blooms and nutrient loading into the lake which many people are aware of,” says Jason Stockwell, director of UVM's Rubenstein Ecosystem Science Laboratory and the lead investigator of the new summer program.

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