A very successful and interactive “All Hands Meeting” for RACC and NEWRnet was held on February 6, 2016 at Saint Michael’s College in Colchester, Vermont. Dr. C. Susan Weiler, NSF Program Director, attended and provided welcoming remarks to the group along with Dr. Judith Van Houten, VT State EPSCoR Director. A series of innovative presentations from science leaders, graduate research associates and post-doctoral associates were conducted in short time sequences to provide an overview of the work and progress of the research. Presentations were grouped in teams and by area of study.
 
Lindsay Weiland, Director for Workforce Development and Diversity (VT EPSCoR CWDD) at Saint Michael’s College also gave an update on the program and shared the development of a new exchange between two Vermont high schools (BFA Fairfax and Hartford) and two high schools in Puerto Rico who will be visiting each other to discuss their research projects. Dr. Declan McCabe, Professor of Biology at Saint Michael’s College, also presented the innovative mobile application that was developed and is now being used as part of the cyber-enabled research to help undergraduates identify macroinvertebrates. The app was developed by VT EPSCoR and a graduate class in computer science at the University of Vermont. Internal Steering Committee Member, Linda Bowden, from the Leahy ECHO Center in Burlington, also attended. Dr. Donna Rizzo, Professor in the School of Engineering at UVM, led a brief writing exercise to collect information leading to a synthesis paper.
 
Center for Workforce Development and Diversity (CWDD)

Lindsay Wieland, CWDD Director and Declan McCabe, Professor Biology, Saint Michael’s College. Report on Integration into Research. Video    PDF

Lake Processes Talks - Question 1

Andrew Schroth, Science Leader. Understanding drivers of water quality and eutrophication in the Lake Champlain Basin: recent advances through the coupling of cutting-edge observational networks. Video    PDF

Matthew Vaughan, Graduate Research Associate. Expanding the utility of in situ sensors: A closer look at phosphorus fluxes and the nitrogen crash across the Northeast US. Video    PDF

Ryan Sleeper,Graduate Research Associate. Ecosystem Metabolism in three Streams with Contrasting Land Use. Video    PDF

DongJoo “DJ” Joung, Postdoctoral Associate. Nutrient and metal behavior in the water and sediment underneath ice cover: A comparative study between hyper- and eutrophic lake systems. Video    PDF

Peter Isles, Graduate Research Associate. Climate and external loads control N and P concentrations in Lake Champlain. Video    PDF

Trevor Gearhart, Graduate Research Associate. Impacts of cyanobacteria on fish essential fatty acids and daphnia grazing selectivity. Video    PDF

 
Watershed Processes Talks - Question 2

Arne Bomblies, Science Leader. A synthesis of RACC watershed modeling progress. Video    PDF

Ibrahim Mohammed, Postdoctoral Associate (Presented by Arne Bomblies). Statistical and Hydrological Modeling & their relation to Climate and Land Cover. Video    PDF

Justin Guilbert, Graduate Research Associate. Impacts of climate change on watershed hydrology in the northeastern United States. Video    PDF

Jody Stryker, Graduate Research Associate. Improved Simulation of Distributed Streambank Erosion and Sediment Mobilization in the Mad River Watershed, Vermont. Video    PDF

Scott Hamshaw, Graduate Research Associate. Streambank erosion and prediction of suspended sediment flux. Video    PDF

Kristen Underwood, Graduate Research Associate. Application of neural networks to cluster reach-scale sediment transport regime in Lake Champlain tributaries. Video    PDF

Linyuan Shang, Graduate Research Associate . Climate change impacts on watershed hydrology, carbon and nutrient dynamics - A case study in the Missisquoi river watershed. Video    PDF

Policy & Governance - Question 3 Talks

Christopher Koliba, Science Leader. An Overview of the Social, Policy and Governance Components of RACC and the Status of RACC’s Role in the Adaptive Management of the Lake Champlain Basin. Video    PDF

Sarah Coleman, Graduate Research Associate. Learning and Adaptive Management for the provision of water quality and other ecosystem services across scales: Practices, Policies, and Tools. Video    PDF

Steve Scheinert, Postdoctoral Associate. Following the Money through Policy Implementation Networks: Formal Accountability and Financial Resource Flows in Water Quality Governance. Video    PDF

Yu-Shiou Tsai, Postdoctoral Associate. Modeling the dynamics of human activities, land, and water at cadastral scale. Video    PDF

Scott Merrill, Research Assistant Professor, Plant & Soil Science. Experimental gaming research: the next step in data gathering and complex systems analysis. Video    PDF

Asim Zia, Associate Professor Community Development & Applied Economics. Spatial effects of sensor information in inducing cooperative behaviors for managing non-point source pollution: scaling from experimental games to agent based models.                          Video    PDF

Integrated Assessment Model - IAM Talks

Asim Zia, Science Leader. Adaptation to Climate Change in Lake Champlain Basin: Integrated Assessment Modeling of Climate Change, Land-Use Change, Hydrology and Lake Biogeochemistry Interactions. Video    PDF

Jonathan Winter, Assistant Professor, Geography, Dartmouth College. Climate Change Scenarios for Lake Champlain Basin Impacts Assessments. Video    PDF

Gabriela Bucini, Postdoctoral Associate. The machinery inside the weather estimator. Video    PDF

Patrick Clemins, Asst. Research Prof. Computer Science and VT EPSCoR Cyber Specialist. Putting the "I" in the IAM: Computation and Data Management. Video    PDF

Peter Isles, Graduate Research Associate. Combined effects of nutrient loading and climate change on Missisquoi Bay water quality. Video    PDF