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John “Jack” LaRock  Glens Falls Post-Star

John “Jack” LaRock | Obituaries | poststar.com  Glens Falls Post-Star

Reality and fantasy diverge
Rutland Herald
The first three months of 2015 were the warmest on record for seven Western states and the coldest on record for New York and Vermont. Here the transition from winter to spring at the end of April was so fast that there were only a few weeks between ...

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On June 16th, all Vermont EPSCoR interns participated in the "Intern Exchange" event - swapping research groups to learn about the various aspects of RACC and NEWRnet research. Interns spent the day visiting different labs at UVM, Saint Michael's College, Middlebury College and Johnson State College to discuss their own research projects and learn from other interns. Interns were encouraged to make connections between their own work and the work being done in their host lab, and to create an art/photography project to share with others.

RACC researchers have been working in the Mad River watershed this spring and summer installing time-integrating suspended sediment samplers, ISCO automated samplers, and tipping bucket rain gages. Graduate students Kristen Underwood, Scott Hamshaw and Jordan Duffy are mentoring students Nathalie Simoes and Wimara Rubia Sa Gomez through the 10-week RACC summer internship.

The third UN World Congress on Disaster Risk Reduction, held in Sendai, Japan in March 2015, agreed on a new framework to guide disaster risk reduction policy and practice for the next 15 years. The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 (SFDRR) leaves important implementation issues unspecified and potentially creates both problems and opportunities for complex, multilevel governance systems in coping with hazards and disastrous events. Early warning systems (EWS), if built into the mainstream of planning for development and disaster relief and recovery, could present a significant opportunity to realize many SFDRR goals. We explore the complexities of using hydrometeorological EWS to prepare for drought and flood disasters in the densely populated communities of Pakistan's Indus River Basin in contrast to the African Sahel's less densely settled grasslands. Multilevel governance systems are often dominated by a top-down, technocentric, centralized management bias and have great difficulty responding to the needs of peripheral and vulnerable populations. People-centered, bottom-up approaches that incorporate disaggregated communities with local knowledge into a balanced, multilevel disaster risk management and governance structure have a dramatically better chance of realizing the SFDRR goals for disaster risk reduction.

Bike paths planned for Ohio River Greenway Trail
Tribune-Review
If approved, the Ohio River Greenway Trail will have paved, well-marked bike lanes along low-speed, low-traffic roads to give cyclists a safer alternative to heavily traveled Pennsylvania Bike Route A, running along state Route 51, said Robert Genter ...

Photo Coverage: The New York Pops Celebrates New Summer Home at Forest Hills Stadium  Broadway World

The New York Pops celebrated its new summer home with a launch event at Forest Hills Stadium this week, June 18, 2015. BroadwayWorld was there and ...

Dartmouth prof developing TB breath test
The Union Leader
HANOVER — Dartmouth engineering professor Jane Hill is working to develop a breath test that determines if the patient is infected with tuberculosis and the stage of the infection. Though TB is rare in the U.S., it has recently made headlines, with an ...

Dartmouth prof developing TB breath test
The Union Leader
HANOVER — Dartmouth engineering professor Jane Hill is working to develop a breath test that determines if the patient is infected with tuberculosis and the stage of the infection. Though TB is rare in the U.S., it has recently made headlines, with an ...

Dartmouth prof developing TB breath test
The Union Leader
HANOVER — Dartmouth engineering professor Jane Hill is working to develop a breath test that determines if the patient is infected with tuberculosis and the stage of the infection. Though TB is rare in the U.S., it has recently made headlines, with an ...

Dartmouth prof developing TB breath test
The Union Leader
HANOVER — Dartmouth engineering professor Jane Hill is working to develop a breath test that determines if the patient is infected with tuberculosis and the stage of the infection. Though TB is rare in the U.S., it has recently made headlines, with an ...

Dartmouth prof developing TB breath test
The Union Leader
HANOVER — Dartmouth engineering professor Jane Hill is working to develop a breath test that determines if the patient is infected with tuberculosis and the stage of the infection. Though TB is rare in the U.S., it has recently made headlines, with an ...

Dartmouth prof developing TB breath test
The Union Leader
HANOVER — Dartmouth engineering professor Jane Hill is working to develop a breath test that determines if the patient is infected with tuberculosis and the stage of the infection. Though TB is rare in the U.S., it has recently made headlines, with an ...

Dartmouth prof developing TB breath test
The Union Leader
HANOVER — Dartmouth engineering professor Jane Hill is working to develop a breath test that determines if the patient is infected with tuberculosis and the stage of the infection. Though TB is rare in the U.S., it has recently made headlines, with an ...

Dartmouth prof developing TB breath test
The Union Leader
HANOVER — Dartmouth engineering professor Jane Hill is working to develop a breath test that determines if the patient is infected with tuberculosis and the stage of the infection. Though TB is rare in the U.S., it has recently made headlines, with an ...

Dartmouth prof developing TB breath test
The Union Leader
HANOVER — Dartmouth engineering professor Jane Hill is working to develop a breath test that determines if the patient is infected with tuberculosis and the stage of the infection. Though TB is rare in the U.S., it has recently made headlines, with an ...

For a Teacher, Back-to-Back Marathons, Then Fourth-Graders ...  The New York Times

In Praise of Intercity Bus Service
Inside Higher Ed (blog)
Richard Kujawa. From a University of Delaware Masters in Public Policy thesis in 2013: "Intercity travel has experienced a transformative shift as a new form of bus travel demonstrates explosive growth that far outpaces any other mode. As funding and ...

BurlingtonFreePress.com
Derby Line woman admits tax fraud
BurlingtonFreePress.com
A Derby Line woman, who embezzled more than $250,000 from a local rescue squad, was uncovered during an unrelated embezzlement at the Border Lodge Credit Union, court records show. Amy C. Fletcher, 44, of Derby Line pleaded guilty in U.S. District ...

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