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This summer Kateri Bisceglio, Chelsea Cole, Dalton Gomez, Joshua Hunt, Todd Lantery, and Laura Orvis have been working with Dr. Robert Genter and Saul Blocher at Johnson State College on microbial source tracking and water quality in tributaries of the Lamoille River.

The interns are monitoring 19 stream sites in the Lamoille River basin for sources of E. coli from warm-blooded animals. The goal is to identify the animal sources of E. coli in streams and relate that to the land-use practices surrounding the stream. They are also looking to link the land-use practices in the Lamoille River basin to the nutrients found in the stream (different forms of nitrogen and phosphorus).

On July 29th, six middle school students and their teacher from the Shader Croft School in Shelburne visited RACC researchers at Saint Michael's College. The Shader Croft program is a summer literacy program for young adolescents. This free choice learning program allows the students to identify a personal interest and embark on student generated, student organized and student led trips throughout the summer.

One young student, Zach, identified an interest in photographing insects and wanted to learn more about macrophotography from RACC researchers Dr. Declan McCabe and Katie Chang. The class visited campus to learn more about macroinvetebrates, techniques for taking digital photographs, and got to see some really neat bugs under the microscope!

RACC interns, Rachel Markey and Emily Whalen are spending the summer working with Dr. Carol Adair working on the Northern Forest Mesocosm (NForM) Climate Change Experiment.

As temperatures rise, the ability of forests to maintain, gain, or loose carbon (C) and nutrients has important consequences for climate change mitigation, soil fertility and water quality. The goal of the NForM experiment is to identify the mechanisms driving forest C, nutrient and water balances and to quantify how warming-driven changes in these mechanisms will alter forest health and function using in-field forest mesocosms (small simulated forest watersheds).

An article titled "From the Habit of Control to Institutional Enablement: Re-envisioning the Governance of Social-Ecological Systems from the Perspective of Complexity Sciences" was recently published in Complexity, Governance & Networks. Authors included members of the RACC IAM, Q3 and Q2 teams. This was a collaborative effort with reknowned complexity scientist Stuart Kauffman.

Vermont Tech hosts Governor's Institutes of Vermont Entrepreneurial Program ...
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We chose to locate our first Governor's Institute on Entrepreneurship at Vermont Tech because of the enthusiasm of their outstanding staff leader, Laurel Butler, and the wonderful resources that she, Vermont Tech and the VtSBDC pulled together for ...

Vermont Tech hosts Governor's Institutes of Vermont Entrepreneurial Program ...
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... enthusiasm of their outstanding staff leader, Laurel Butler, and the wonderful resources that she, Vermont Tech and the VtSBDC pulled together for these young people,” said Executive Director for the Governor's Institutes of Vermont, Karen Taylor ...

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RACC intern Marissa Goodwin is working with Dr. Carol Adair (Rubenstein School - Climate Change Science) on a project involving Vermont Agricultural Resilience in a Changing Climate. This long-term, collaborative project seeks to work with farmers, agricultural service providers, researchers, and community organizations to address the impacts of climate change on agriculture in Vermont. The project focuses on evaluating and implementing on-farm climate change adaptation and mitigation practices.

Israel, Palestinians both frustrated by 'useless' truces
Los Angeles Times
"I didn't even know which house was mine," said 24-year-old Ibrahim Mohammed, who ventured into the heavily bombed area of Beit Hanoun, in northern Gaza. "One person's wardrobe was blown into another person's house. Everything was mixed up.".

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Sudanese states ask for federal help to stave off effects of rains and floods
Sudan Tribune
He said that a high committee headed by his deputy, Ali Ahmed Hamed, has been set up to assess the damage besides forming popular committees to provide help and support for the affected population. The governor appealed to government units ...

RACC interns collect soil and water samples in upland and mountainous settings to help quantify the role of rural transportation networks on water quality degradation. Sampling occurs along stream corridors of the Missisquoi, Winooski, and Mad River watersheds to determine the gradient of phosphorus and nitrogen towards the stream banks and with depth in the soil profile.

Violence resumes in Gaza despite calls for new cease-fire
Los Angeles Times
“I didn't even know which house was mine,” said 24-year-old Ibrahim Mohammed, who ventured Sunday into the heavily bombed area of Beit Hanoun. “One person's wardrobe was blown into another person's house. Everything was mixed up.” On Sunday ...

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Localities' staff salaries deducted in East Darfur
Radio Dabanga
The Secretary-General of the Labours Union in Adila and Abu Karinka localities, Ahmed Hamed Mireikha Hajar, told Radio Dabanga that deductions amounting to 15 percent were deducted from the February, June and July salaries of the employees and ...

Daily News Egypt
Ramadan desserts go global
Daily News Egypt
He said: “There was small room for creativity as we were producing on a small scale.” Ibrahim Mohammed, working in Mandarine Koueider, agreed that the purchasing level during the revolution was low and transfer of the materials needed for production ...

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Chadians rob Omisore's Lagos home, rape maid
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Three Chadians who admitted to robbing homes in Lagos high-end neighbourhoods have been arrested after breaking into Senator Iyiola Omisore's Ikoyi, Lagos home. The suspects, Mohammed Musa, Ibrahim Mohammed and Jitto Saleh, along with a fourth ...

Newtown High School Fourth Quarter Honor Roll Released
The Newtown Bee
... Anna Biondi, Chloe Elizabeth Blakeman, Sean Bollman, Nicholas Bourgeois, Patrick Briscoe, Christopher Buckley, Matthew Carino, Miles Coyote Carter, Gabrielle Chau, Caroline Shea Cole, Sarah Coleman, Jake Courchene-Roy, Callen Creeden, Anthony ...

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RACC intern, Némesis Ortiz, and UVM intern, Bradley Roy, are working with Dr. Jason Stockwell to learn how several water quality parameters may have an impact on food webs in Shelburne Pond. Interns collect water samples at different depths using a peristaltic pump, and use different water quality sensors, including the Sonde (temperature, conductivity, dissolved oxygen, pH, turbidity, depth, chlorophyll and blue green algae concentration), a PAR sensor (Photosynthetically Active Radiation) and temperature sensors. Other methods include using the Secchi disk for turbidity measurements, weather data collection, and the preparation of water samples in the lab

Longest Bradford League season for cellar-dwellers Windhill
Bradford Telegraph and Argus
"We have also suffered with injuries to Jack Holland (broken wrist playing football) , my son Ryan, shoulder) and Ibrahim Mohammed (back) – nothing seems to go for you when you are at the bottom – while our overseas player Salman Ali likes to attack ...

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Longest Bradford League season for cellar-dwellers Windhill
Bradford Telegraph and Argus
"We have also suffered with injuries to Jack Holland (broken wrist playing football) , my son Ryan, shoulder) and Ibrahim Mohammed (back) – nothing seems to go for you when you are at the bottom – while our overseas player Salman Ali likes to attack ...

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'Road Pitch' to stop in town
Manchester Journal
MANCHESTER - The founding riders of 'Road Pitch' will ride everything from Harley's to vintage motorcycles to BMWs for mroe than 350 miles of scenic views and back roads through 11 of Vermont's 14 counties. "We know that Vermont is rich ... Young ...

'Road Pitch' to stop in town
Manchester Journal
MANCHESTER - The founding riders of 'Road Pitch' will ride everything from Harley's to vintage motorcycles to BMWs for mroe than 350 miles of scenic views and back roads through 11 of Vermont's 14 counties. "We know that Vermont is rich ... Young ...

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