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Follow Jason Stockwell, director of UVM's Rubenstein Ecosystem Science Lab, and his students onto Lake Champlain as they spend an afternoon and evening studying mysis shrimp's movements before and after sunset.

James Vincent is the director of the Bioinformatics Core at the Vermont Genetics Network at the University of Vermont.

Why we picked him: James has transferred more than 5TBs of data in less than one month. He has transferred data between several TereGrid/XSEDE resources (including Blacklight, Golem, Lonestar, Ranch and Ranger) and also between his Vermont site and XSEDE resources. He has obtained stellar transfer rates — as high as 1.3 Gbps!

For scientists using the information highway faster is better, and life in the slow lane can be detrimental to research. So a $1 million dollar grant from the National Science Foundation is helping upgrade the existing data system between Vermont State Colleges and UVM. They want to switch to a high speed fiber optic network that would be 33 times faster than the system's current speed.

Timothy Donovan is chancellor for the Vermont State College system and he joins The :30 to explain how this project got a green light and why.

Vermonters might be surprised to learn that Vermont has an aerospace community working to launch a satellite into lunar orbit. That mathematicians are using Twitter to gauge the mood of societies. That local scientists are sequencing the genome of a creature that is so like humans it may have a role in regenerative medicine.

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Deseret News
University of Vermont awarded $20M to study lake
Deseret News
... director of Vermont EPSCoR — UVM's Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research. Toby Talbot, File, Associated Press FILE-In this Aug. 16, 2011 file photo, clouds rise up over Lake Champlain in Burlington, Vt. A science program at the ...
Vt. science group to get money to study Lake Champlain healthThe Republic
Lake Champlain science group to get study moneyNECN
WCAX.COM Local Vermont News, Weather and Sports-UVM wins $20M grant to study ...WCAX

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Pat Manley, Professor of Geology
Middlebury Campus (subscription)
Currently Tom [Manley] and I are part of an EPSCoR-funded program looking at the effects of climate change in Vermont. Our role will be to use the vessel, with its bottom mapping capabilities and hydrodynamic equipment, to begin the baseline studies ...

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UVM News
$1 Million to Connect UVM and Vermont State Colleges
UVM News
In Vermont, that information pipeline has not been as big as necessary — or it's entirely missing in places. The Vermont Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (VT EPSCoR) at the University of Vermont has received a $1 million grant ...

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Vermont Company Explores Dairy Whey Usage
World Dairy Diary
The company has been awarded a $15000 research grant from the Vermont Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) to experiment with whey, which is a dairy serum that separates as a watery liquid from the curd after coagulation, ...