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Keeping Nutrients Out Of Our Waterways
Vermont Public Radio
Vermont's Ecosystem Restoration Manager Kari Dolan and UVM Professor of Water Resources Suzanne Levine discuss the science of nutrient runoff and the efforts by the state to contain them. Post your questions or comments about efforts to keep nutrients ...

On June 13, 2013 the VT EPSCoR RACC Seminar Series hosted George E. Springston from the Geology and Environmental Science department of Norwich University.

Mr Springston's talk covered the following topics

*Statewide patterns of rainfall, stream runoff, and road damage from Irene
*Peak discharges from Irene in the Mad River watershed
*Peak discharge history in the White River watershed
*Rainfall versus runoff in the White River watershed and Eastern Vermont
*Geomorphic impacts
-Tributaries
-Upper Mainstem
-Lower Mainstem

NSF KY EPSCoR has an exciting Student Volunteer opportunity for students from all EPSCoR states. They would like to involve at least two students from each EPSCoR jurisdiction, particularly women, and we’ll need your help to do that. There are no specific skills required to serve as a student volunteer; they encourage undergraduate and graduate students to apply to help with the administration of the conference.

Question 1 busy with Summer Research Projects with Interns and Graduate Students

If you don’t like the weather in Vermont, wait ten minutes. So the saying goes. The weather is in
the conversations of Vermonters, those who visit for sports and scenery, and those who depend
on Vermont products and commerce. Recent flooding events, especially Tropical Storm Irene in
2011, were catastrophic for several communities and natural areas throughout Vermont. These
required heroic responses and unanticipated resourcesfrom individuals and towns, as well as
State and Federal agencies. Climate affects so much of our lives that the possibility of significant
disruption in patterns due to global climate change spurs us to speculation, and preparation. The
regional climate models predict that the changing patterns we have observed so far – increases in
temperature and more extreme fluctuations in precipitation – are likely to continue. If you don’t
like the climate in Vermont, wait 50 years, but we can’t promise you’ll like it any better.

Before the Flood
Pacific Standard
“It's actually kind of scary because it's so powerful,” says Kari Dolan, one of two Vermont River Management Program staffers along for the ride. Kline has brought me to Bennington to illustrate what this river — with the help of human stupidity and ...

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Long Trail School wins science program
Manchester Journal
In April, Department Chair Scott Worland was notified that he and two students were accepted into the VT EPSCoR Research on Adaptation to Climate Change (RACC) program for 2013-2014. A program largely designed for college and university level work ...

WILLISTON — Jack Glaser of MBF Bioscience in Williston was in rarefied company earlier this month as he sat in the White House, waiting to receive a Tibbetts Award from Karen Mills, administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration.

The Vermont EPSCoR RACC Question 1 team had a successful training day with their new summer interns on the Missisquoi Bay.

VT EPSCoR RACC External Advisory Committee member Anna Michalak is featured on Science 360.

Spring was cool until the end of April and beginning of May, when maximum temperatures rose into the mid-70s with two weeks of bright sunshine. When there are no clouds in spring, the daily range of temperature between maximum and minimum reaches 35F. Night-time temperatures fell sharply under clear skies, but only to around 40F so we got no frosts. I planted my peas, lettuce and more spinach – since we had eaten all the spinach that wintered over under glass.

On June 3rd, the VT EPSCoR CWDD welcomed 42 RACC summer interns to Saint Michael's College. RACC interns are placed with a research team of faculty, postdocs and graduate students working on the transdisciplinary RACC research program. The 2013 Intern Orientation included presentations by RACC faculty and partners introducing interns to climate change and water quality issues in Vermont, as well as outlining the RACC research program questions.

Sarah Burridge of Newbury receives a $5000 First-Gen Scholarship from ...
ReadMedia (press release)
Ms. Burridge, the daughter of Laurie and Russall Burridge of Newbury, Vt., received a First-Generation-Student Scholarship from Vermont EPSCoR, (Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research) awarded at ceremonies May 16th at the annual ...

Friday, May 17, 2013
Field tour of Winooski River watershed sites for visitors from Idaho EPSCoR.

Visiting Research Vessel from Middlebury College

Middlebury College's new boat, the R/V David Folger, was at ECHO today to load a new meteorological buoy.

Successful deployment of the RACC biogeochemical platform in Missisquoi Bay (21 May 2013)

MBF Bioscience received a prestigious Tibbetts Award during a ceremony at the White House on May 16. The Tibbetts Award recognizes MBF Bioscience for a number of accomplishments including: technological innovation, serving federal Research and Development needs, encouraging diverse participation, and increasing the practical commercial use of federal research.

Chris Danforth (left) and Peter Dodds, associate professors of mathematics at UVM, look at their hedonometer, which measures public emotions by analyzing words used on Twitter.