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Dr. Christopher Koliba, BREE Social Systems Leader, was an invited presenter at the Vermont State House as part of a "Leadership Briefing Session" organized by the Lake Champlain Basin Program (LCBP) on February 2, 2017.

Time travel in a peat bog
Rutland Herald
When less-hardy people are comfortably indoors, Hope and his students drive long metal pipes into a Vermont bog. He told me that lightning is the only weather that would give him pause; handling tall metal pipes during electrical storms is ill advised.

Time travel in a peat bog
Rutland Herald
Research led by the University of Vermont's Brian Beckage has chronicled tree movement over the last 40 years in the Green Mountains. In his study blocks, fir trees at lower elevations have declined, while seeds that fell above the species' historic ...

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Machine Learning Algorithm Can Accurately Predict Depression ...  Digital Trends

Army Shows Off Its Lightest Combat Helmet Ever  Military.com

On Thursday, March 30, at 7 p.m., members of Lee University, the String Theory Youth Initiative (STYI), along with violinist Robyn Bollinger, will connect with young musicians in Burlington, Vermont, using LoLa (Low Latency Audio Visual Streaming). STYI musicians will perform with students from the Vermont Youth Orchestra. This event, which will take place at the Chattanooga Public Library (fourth floor), will conclude with a performance featuring cellist Emily Taubl along with Ms. Bollinger. This event is in collaboration with the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival.

The LoLa technology referred to ONLY runs over Internet2 - technology supported by VT EPSCoR and the University of Vermont.

Burlington, through the Fletcher Free Library and Big Heavy World, is one of a dozen hotspots of LoLa activity in the entire world.

Another successful symposium.

UVM, Tech Council, VCET to Host 12th Annual Invention 2 Venture Conference on April 6
vtdigger.org
The University of Vermont, the Vermont Technology Council, and the Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies will host the twelfth annual Invention 2 Venture (I2V) Conference on April 6 from 1 to 5 p.m. at the Dudley H. Davis Center on the UVM campus.

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Time travel in a peat bog
Stowe Today
Research led by the University of Vermont's Brian Beckage has chronicled tree movement over the last 40 years in the Green Mountains. In his study blocks, fir trees at lower elevations have declined, while seeds that fell above the species' historic ...

Time travel in a peat bog
Stowe Today
Elizabeth Thompson and Eric Sorenson's “Wetland Woodland Wildland: A Guide to the Natural Communities of Vermont” suggests seeking spruce-fir forests at elevations above 2,500 feet. ... Declan McCabe teaches biology at St. Michael's College. His work ...

Students to time travel in a peat bog  Burlington Free Press

Students to time travel in a peat bog  BurlingtonFreePress.com

Students to time travel in a peat bog  BurlingtonFreePress.com

LaunchVT announced the seven finalists for the 2017 Pitch Competition on Tuesday. The finalists will be paired with coaches for the competition on May 12 and the chance to win over $75,000 in cash and prizes.

Four start-up companies that grew out of the research of University of Vermont faculty and graduate students, two technologies developed by UVM faculty that have commercial potential, and a start-up launched by staff at the UVM Medical Center will be on display at the invitation-only National Innovation Summit & Showcase, the world's largest showcase of industry-vetted emerging-technologies ready for commercialization.

The event will be held May 14 through 17 at the Gaylord Hotel and Conference Center in Washington, DC.

The seven invitees place UVM and the UVM Medical Center in the top 10 percent of all universities, federal labs, government research centers and companies submitting applications for the event.

BurlingtonFreePress.com
Students to time travel in a peat bog
BurlingtonFreePress.com
His work with student researchers on insect communities in the Champlain Basin is funded by Vermont's EPSCoR Grant NSF EPS Award #OIA1556770 from the National Science Foundation.The illustration for this column was drawn by Adelaide Tyrol.

BurlingtonFreePress.com
Students to time travel in a peat bog
BurlingtonFreePress.com
Elizabeth Thompson and Eric Sorenson's Wetland Woodland Wildland: A Guide to the Natural Communities of Vermont, suggests seeking spruce-fir forests at elevations above 2,500 feet. Fir's range ... Declan McCabe teaches biology at St. Michael's College.

BurlingtonFreePress.com
Students to time travel in a peat bog
BurlingtonFreePress.com
Research led by the University of Vermont's Brian Beckage has chronicled tree movement over the last 40 years in the Green Mountains. In his study blocks, fir trees at lower elevations have declined, while seeds that fell above the species' historic ...

Time travel in a peat bog
Mountaintimes
By Declan McCabe. Gutter pipes full of soggy peat show up on the bench by my office each March. This means one thing: my colleague Peter Hope's Saint Michael's College students are about to experience time travel. You might reasonably ask how pipes ...