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The Climate Science Lab located at Johnson State College, and led by Dr. Tania Bacchus, Professor of Earth Science and Meteorology, collects and evaluates lake and mountain weather station datasets in northern tier Vermont to better understand climate change in Vermont. The lab is funded by the VT ESPCoR Research on Adaptation to Climate Change in the Lake Champlain Basin (RACC) grant #1101317.

Two RACC interns from Dr. Bacchus' lab presented posters at the 2015 American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting in San Francisco in December. Melissa Segall is currently a senior at Lyndon State College, and worked in Dr. Bacchus' lab during the summer of 2015. She presented her RACC research titled: "Large Precipitation Events in Northern Vermont Compared to Global Temperature Anomalies and Carbon Dioxide Concentrations". Ashley Fortin worked in Dr. Bacchus' lab during the summer of 2012 and completed a Bachelor of Science degree in Atmospheric Science from Lyndon State College in 2014. She is currently pursuing a Master's Degree in Meteorology and Climate Science at San Jose State University in San Francisco. Ashley's research poster was titled: "The Influence of Declining Arctic Sea Ice on Sudden Stratospheric Warming Events".

Melissa Segall also took her RACC research poster to the American Meteorological Society (AMS) meeting in New Orleans for the annual conference in January, 2016.

Nasser Abdel-Fatah, a senior at Johnson State College and RACC intern in the summers of 2014 and 2015, has had an abstract accepted for the Northeastern Geological Society of America (GSA) meeting in Albany, New York in March, 2016. Nasser will present his RACC research titled: "Detailed Analysis of Climate Trends from the Northern Tier of Vermont from 2000-2014".

The VT EPSCoR Center for Workforce Development and Diversity (CWDD) places undergraduate students interested in learning more about science careers and working as part of a team of researchers at several Vermont campuses. The CWDD is located at Saint Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont.

On December 17th, 2015, a RACC high school team from Bellows Free Academy-Fairfax presented their research poster at the annual fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). Earth Sciences teacher, Tom Lane, BFA-Fairfax High School Juniors, Rebekah Larose and Sophie Lee, along with CWDD Director, Lindsay Wieland, traveled to San Francisco to present their Streams Project research. The teams in the High School Streams Project look at total phosphate, total nitrogen, and TSS in streams feeding into the Missisquoi and Winooski Rivers.

RACC and NEWRnet Team members attended the AGU fall meeting in San Francisco on December 12-16. With nearly 24,000 attendees, the AGU Fall Meeting is the largest Earth and space science meeting in the world. Now in its 48th year, the AGU Fall Meeting is the best place to present research, hear about the latest discoveries, trends, and challenges in the field.

Energy credits are a diversion
Rutland Herald
There have been several articles in the last few weeks, discussing the sale of renewable energy credits associated with solar arrays in Vermont to out-of-state utilities. They are written from a legalistic perspective that has little relevance to the ...

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Time to act: Understanding dyslexia, dyscalculia, and dysgraphia
Vermont Biz
Vermont Business Magazine Last October, Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, Michael Yudin, sent a letter to states reminding them to use the terms “dyslexia”, “dysgraphia”, and “dyscalculia” in Individualized ...

Gipsy couple who drove a Bentley had failed to pay more than £160,000 in tax on the profits of their lucrative  Daily Mail

Gipsy couple who drove a Bentley had failed to pay more than £160,000 in tax on the profits of their lucrative  Daily Mail

Gipsy couple who drove a Bentley had failed to pay more than £160,000 in tax on the profits of their lucrative  Daily Mail

Thomas and Elizabeth Doran, from Clacton-on-Sea, asked their customers to pay in cash or write cheques payable to their young children, prosecutors told the ...

51-year-old in court in connection with cannabis haul worth more than £500000  Jersey Evening Post

Mountaintimes
Wild bee decline threatens US crop production, UVM study finds
Mountaintimes
The research team, led by Insu Koh at the University of Vermont, estimates that wild bee abundance between 2008 and 2013 declined in 23 percent of the contiguous U.S. The study also shows that 39 percent of U.S. croplands that depend on pollinators ...

The Week Magazine
Mass bee die-offs are threatening nearly half of US crops
The Week Magazine
"It's clear that pollinators are in trouble," said Taylor Ricketts, biologist at the University of Vermont and coauthor of the study, in a prepared statement. "But what's been less clear is where they are in the most trouble — and where their decline ...

Burlington County Times
Ongoing story: Burlington County libraries relish their relevancy in a digital age
Burlington County Times
Mount Laurel man facing child pornography charges · For original Trump team, a moment to celebrate and reflect · Schools offer lessons on accommodating transgender students · Vermont to require drug makers to explain price increases · Summer Camps 2016 ...

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Reflections on a hot year
Barre Montpelier Times Argus
In January, I like to look back on the year that is past. So far, the winter has been much warmer than the last two. We have the very strong El Niño in the equatorial Pacific to thank for this. I still have Brussels sprouts to eat from the garden and ...

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Reflections on a hot year
Rutland Herald
In January, I like to look back on the year that is past. So far, the winter has been much warmer than the last two. We have the very strong El Niño in the equatorial Pacific to thank for this. I still have Brussels sprouts to eat from the garden and ...

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Reflections on a hot year
Rutland Herald
In January, I like to look back on the year that is past. So far, the winter has been much warmer than the last two. We have the very strong El Niño in the equatorial Pacific to thank for this. I still have Brussels sprouts to eat from the garden and ...

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Winter temperatures of didn't stop the hardy Oxbow High School team from sampling their nearby stream and measuring its velocity. The team is led by Earth Sciences teacher, Carl Hildebrandt, and consists of two 11th-graders, Eliza Goodell and Hannah Giesing, along with 10th-grader Richard Rosten. Oxbow High School is located in Bradford, Vermont which is located in Orange County. The team has collected water samples from Halls Brook and the South Branch of the Waits River throughout the summer and fall, contributing data to Vermont EPSCoR's Research on Adaptation to Climate Change (RACC) program, and remained dedicated to gathering a final sample on a recent frigid day.

Montpelier Bridge
Group Raises Funds For UES Playground
Montpelier Bridge
University of Vermont assistant professor Stephanie Hurley, a Montpelier resident, was among those who donated their time and talent to the effort by engaging a group of 20 of her landscape design students on a class project to come up with various ...

Sheldon Epps To Step Down from Pasadena Playhouse  American Theatre

Houston Chronicle
Trae Bell-Haynes scores 27 to lead Vermont past Maine 90-72
Houston Chronicle
A few minutes later, the Catamounts used a 17-5 spurt to push their lead to 21 points with just more than three minutes to play. Maine (4-10, 0-1) shot 51.8 percent from the field, but committed 18 turnovers and made just 9 of 20 free throws. Vermont ...

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