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Earth ignores politics
Barre Montpelier Times Argus
There has been a lot of flooding across the planet this spring, perhaps because storm systems are traveling across the landscape less quickly and raining in the same place for longer. The day-to-day patterns of weather are so complicated that it is ...

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National Science Foundation (press release)
NSF announces 2016 EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Track-1 awards
National Science Foundation (press release)
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Hawai'i, Nebraska and Vermont $20 million each through its Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR), which promotes world-class research nationwide. The five-year ...

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National Science Foundation (press release)
NSF announces 2016 EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Track-1 awards
National Science Foundation (press release)
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Hawai'i, Nebraska and Vermont $20 million each through its Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR), which promotes world-class research nationwide. The five-year ...

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National Science Foundation (press release)
NSF announces 2016 EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Track-1 awards
National Science Foundation (press release)
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Hawai'i, Nebraska and Vermont $20 million each through its Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR), which promotes world-class research nationwide. The five-year ...

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National Science Foundation (press release)
NSF announces 2016 EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Track-1 awards
National Science Foundation (press release)
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Hawai'i, Nebraska and Vermont $20 million each through its Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR), which promotes world-class research nationwide. The five-year ...

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National Science Foundation (press release)
NSF announces 2016 EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Track-1 awards
National Science Foundation (press release)
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Hawai'i, Nebraska and Vermont $20 million each through its Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR), which promotes world-class research nationwide. The five-year ...

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Drug sweep nets 36 Lawrence arrests | News  The Daily News of Newburyport

LAWRENCE — Desiree Pelletier lives in Livermore Falls, Maine, which is a 21/2-hour drive away from Lawrence. But on Wednesday, Pelletier, 32, was on East ...

University of Vermont (Judith Van Houten, Principal Investigator)

The Lake Champlain Basin is an enormous economic and ecological asset to Vermont, but the lake and surrounding area are increasingly under threat from extreme weather events. Adaptive strategies are needed to increase resiliency of the combined social-ecological system and protect lake and drinking-water quality. This project will support collaborative, team-based research in ecology, hydrology, social science and modeling. The project will advance the field of coupled social-environmental system research and the development of Integrated Assessment Models to enable managers and policy makers to assess a range of adaptive management strategies. Hands-on activities will engage and interest middle-and high-school students in STEM and lead to advanced training for a new generation of STEM researchers. Six Vermont universities and colleges will participate, led by the University of Vermont, with Castleton University, Lyndon State College, Johnson State College, Middlebury College, and Saint Michael's College.

Alarmists vs. deniers
Rutland Herald
... 20 government-supported academics, including Dr. Alan Betts of Pittsford, demanded that the Obama Justice Department launch an investigation of climate skeptics and their organizations, under the Racketeer Influenced Criminal Organization (RICO) act.

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Pinder Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from Leading Professional Association
UVM News
George Pinder holds a model that he uses in teaching numerical methods for engineers. He notes that while he could use a drawing instead, the three-dimensional object is more flexible and appealing to students who are learning how to represent physical ...

Alarmists vs. deniers
Rutland Herald
... 20 government-supported academics, including Dr. Alan Betts of Pittsford, demanded that the Obama Justice Department launch an investigation of climate skeptics and their organizations, under the Racketeer Influenced Criminal Organization (RICO) act.

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Bee Experts For U.S. Pollinator Week
Newswise (press release)
Newswise — As National Pollinator Week approaches (June 20-26), University of Vermont researchers say urgent action is needed to preserve U.S. bees, noting that nearly a third of North American bumblebee species are in decline, and several are ...

Huffington Post
An Open Letter to Those Who Feel the Bern
Huffington Post
As we move toward the 2016 presidential election, it is critical that those who embrace progressive values turn their energy to the defeat of Donald J. Trump. I know that millions of Americans who were inspired to support Senator Bernie Sanders are ...

BurlingtonFreePress.com
Jury of constituents to determine McAllister's fate
BurlingtonFreePress.com
ST. ALBANS - As a sex-assault trial is set to begin for a state senator from Franklin County, residents say they hope the truth will come out during three days of testimony in St. Albans. Sen. Norman McAllister, 64, of Highgate Center faces a jury ...

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Presented here is the third of three 2016 Watershed Moments Scholarly Conversations Videos.

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

This video features a discussion on:
"An interactive land use transition agent-based model: Endogenizing human-environment interactions in the Western Missisquoi Watershed." with Dr. Yu-shiou Tsai, Post-Doc Research Associate, VT EPSCoR and Kristen Underwood, Graduate Research Assistant, VT EPSCoR.

On Sunday, May 22nd, thirty-three undergraduate students started their Summer Internships. Beginning with a comprehensive orientation, students learned about the VT EPSCoR Adaptation to Climate Change Research in the Lake Champlain Basin (RACC) program, and participated in several teambuilding exercises. Interns were introduced to their specific RACC research question, and through conversations with their mentors, gained understanding of how their research would tie into the bigger picture.

Dr. Christopher Koliba provided an introduction to the goals and products of RACC over the last five years. Following the presentation, roundtable discussions were held. These discussions allowed interns to learn not only about their own RACC Questions, but to learn what other interns would be researching over the summer as well, and how all of the questions are linked. A quick transition after lunch brought interns to the UVM ropes course at Farrell Park. At the ropes course, interns learned the value of teamwork, and discovered that a variety of skills is required to be successful during the internship.

Interns were able to see both projects funded through the NSF EPSCoR Track-1 and Track-2 NEWRnet (NorthEast Water Resources Network) and RACC technology during a "forest-farm-lake" field trip of the Missisquoi River basin. This watershed tour was led by Drs. Andrew Schroth, Steve Scheinert and Declan McCabe. While visiting various tributaries of the Missisquoi River, as well as the river itself, interns were able to see, first hand, the effects of phosphorus on the river, and how the effects vary from a forested stream; to a stream in close proximity to a farm. Interns also learned about some of the policies in place to help control the potentially negative effects of some farming practices on rivers, and how effective best practices can work hand in hand with policy makers. The field trip culminated with a visit to the Missisquoi Bay, where algal blooms frequently grow in late summer.

A Climate Change Workshop led by Drs. Carol Adair and Alan Betts followed the next day. The lectures addressed climate change, assumptions around the terminology, as well as data showing current trends. Students engaged in a lively discussion. After lunch, interns enjoyed a hike at Lone Rock Point in Burlington, VT. There, they were able to observe Lake Champlain, New York's Adirondack Mountains, and the Champlain Thrust Fault, a portion of the Point in which older rock had been thrust on top of newer rock.

The final day of orientation began with a library lecture at UVM to help interns learn where to find resources for their summer research. After the long Memorial Day weekend, interns jumped right into the internships, kicking off with their first workshop of the summer.

2015 RACC Intern Nicolas Gomez Andujar has received a travel award to attend the Ecological Society of America conference in Florida! Nicolas will be presenting his RACC research at the conference which will be held on August 6th -12th, 2016. His internship was with RACC member Dr. Yu-shiou Tsai. He worked on evaluating an Interactive Land Use Transition Agent-based Model on the Missisquoi River watershed.

RACC member Alan Betts reciently gave a talk entitled "Reinventing Hydrometeorology using Cloud and Climate Observations" at a symposium at Princeton in honor of Eric Wood who has been a professor there for 40 years. The talk covered Dr. Betts' research on snow as a climate switch, the long memory in spring of precipitation back through winter, and the impact of cloud and precipitation memory on summer climate.

RACC Leader Arne Bombles will present on the role of NOAA data in RACC and BREE at the NOAA in Vermont Roundtable on June 23rd, 2016.

In 2014, NOAA began a series of thematic, state-based roundtables with Congressional district staff to broaden awareness of the lesser known and sometimes lesser seen aspects of our mission in Vermont. The briefings have been well-received due to their local focus and relevance to all participants. Each topic is demonstrated using a model which pairs a NOAA subject matter expert with an end user or partner to demonstrate the utility of that science, product or service to that state. The roundtables - held so far in Maine, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey and Virginia - have been successful at bringing attention to key state and local partnerships, and even broadening awareness within NOAA of important collaborations.

The Vermont roundtable will be held at the ECHO Center from 10:00am to 3:00pm Thursday, June 23. It will highlight NOAA expertise and collaboration in building community resilience in Vermont and include discussion of precipitation trends, flooding, harmful algae bloom forecasting, climate services, reference datums, green infrastructure and floodplain management. Breck Bowden, Lake Champlain Sea Grant Director, will be the host.

Daily Star Gazette
In US Wild Bee Population refuse pollination process, Farming is under risk – Glendale Tech Time
Daily Star Gazette
Researchers from University of Vermont conducted the first national study for mapping wild bees and found that wild bees are disappearing rapidly from US major farmlands including California's Central Valley, which is known for its almond production ...