Policy and Techinical Advisory Comittee (PTAC)

Meetings and Presentations


The biannual PTAC meetings provide:

  • Technical advice regarding model development, calibration and validation, including possible access to datasets that may be used in the process.
  • Input regarding the communication of research findings and uncertainty associated with them.
  • Advice about possible scenarios to be generated and tested from the BREE Integrated Assessment Model (IAM), as well as the land use, hydrology, climate, governance and economic models that are to be wrapped into it.
  • Advice about the development of actionable, decision-support tools to inform water quality in the face of changing frequencies and intensities of extreme events in the study areas.


May 26, 2021
 
Workshop Welcome and Introductions
Chris Koliba and Arne Bomblies
Video
   PDF

American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA)
Julie Moore
Video
   PDF

Clean Water Service Delivery Act of 2019
Neil Kamman
Video
   PDF

The Next Lake Champlain TMDL Update
Eric Perkins
Video
   PDF

Lake Champlain Basin Program Update
Matt Vaughan
Video
   PDF

Lake Champlain Inland Sea Water Quality Model
Andrew Schroth and Imad Hannoun
Video
   PDF

BREE Integrated Assessment Model (IAM) Version 2.0
Asim Zia
Video
   PDF

Effect of Farmer Adoption of Phosphorus Best Management Practices on the Water Quality Resilience of Missisquoi Bay
Elizabeth Doran
Video
   PDF

Climate Change Induced Changes in the Frequency and Intensity of Extreme Events and their Non-Linear Impacts on Water Quality
Panagiotis (Takis) Oikonomou
Video


November 20, 2020
 
Workshop Welcome and Introductions
Chris Koliba
Video
   PDF

Bloom Sensor Results - 2020
Andrew Schroth
Video
   PDF

Winter Field Work Results
Carol Adair
Video
   PDF

Climate Modeling Results
Johathan Winter
Video
   PDF

Integrated Assessment Model Results
Asim Zia
Video
   PDF

Data and Visualization Opportunities
Patrick Clemins
Video
   PDF

Clean Water Funding / Clean Water Service Providers
Neil Kamman
Video


December 19, 2019
 
Workshop Welcome and Introductions
Chris Koliba & Arne Bomblies
PDF

BREE Ecology Team PTAC Update
Andrew Schroth & Dustin Kincaid
PDF

Report on Floodplain Research
Beverley Wemple, Jesse Gourevitch & Kristen Underwood
PDF

Integrated Assessment Model
Asim Zia

Quantification and simulation of extreme events in BREE IAM
Panagiotis (Takis) D. Oikonomou
PDF

Division Director, Water Investment Division, Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation
Neil Kamman
Video


November 30th, 2018
 
Workshop Welcome and Introductions
Chris Koliba & Arne Bomblies
Video
   PDF

BREE 2018 Algal Bloom Updates Missisquoi and St. Albans Bays
Andrew Schroth
Video
   PDF

2017 and 2018 Cyanobacteria Bloom Update
Wilton Burns
Video
   PDF

Highlights from the Interim Report on the Lake Champlain-Missisquoi Bay and Lake Memphremagog
International Joint Commission
Video
   PDF

Evaluating the Lake Champlain Basin's Resilience to Extreme Events
Jory Hecht
PDF

Secretary, Agency of Natural Resources, State of Vermont
Julie Moore
Audio

Refining Governance Scenarios: Building Blocks of Change
Patrick Bitterman
Video
   PDF

Functioning Floodplains and Basin Resilience to Extreme Events
Mike Kline
Video
   PDF

River Corridors / Floodplains
Scott Hamshaw & Doug Denu
Video
   PDF

Land Use and Land Cover in Vermont
Elizabeth Doran
Video
   PDF

Land Use Scenario Considerations
Charlie Baker
Video
   PDF

Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation
Neil Kamman
Audio


May 24th, 2018
 
Workshop Welcome and Introductions
Chris Koliba & Arne Bomblies
Video

PTAC and Research
Chris Koliba
Video
   PDF

BREE IAM Status and Development Plans
Asim Zia
Video
   PDF

International Joint Commission Workshop & Report
Glenn Benoy
Video
   PDF

Effects of Changing Spring Melt on Nutrient Export
Erin Seybold
Video
   PDF

Applying Deep Learning to Hydrological Events
Scott Hamshaw
Video
   PDF

BREE IAM Simulations
Jory Hecht
Video
   PDF

ALL ABM Update
Elizabeth Doran
Video
   PDF

An Adaptive Agent-Based Model of Network Governance
Patrick Bitterman
Video
   PDF

Activity Introduction and Instructions
Patrick Bitterman
Video
   PDF

Municipal Survey and Policy Brief
Rich Clark
Video
   PDF

Sectoral Breakdown of the GEAM
Bill Gibson
Video
   PDF


November 28th, 2017
 
Workshop Welcome and Introductions
Chris Koliba
Video
   PDF

Drivers of blooms in Missisquoi and St. Albans
Andrew Schroth
Video
   PDF

Climate change and eutrophication in shallow Missisquoi
Asim Zia
Video
   PDF

Effects of changes in climatic extremes on shallow bays
Jory Hecht
Video
   PDF

Thresholds and hysteresis across watersheds
Scott Hamshaw
Video
   PDF

Activity description
Patrick Bitterman
Video
   PDF

Activity discussion
Elizabeth Doran
Video

IJC Presentation
International Joint Commission
Video #1
   Video #2
   PDF

Municipal survey
Rich Clark & Stephanie Hurley
Video
   PDF

Macroeconomic modeling
Bill Gibson
Video
   PDF

Land use change modeling
Elizabeth Doran
Video
   PDF

Governance modeling
Patrick Bitterman
Video
   PDF


May 25, 2017
 
Introduction
Chris Koliba
Video
   PDF

Lake system/water quailty modeling results
Andrew Schroth
Video
   PDF

RACC/BREE IAM results and publication plan
Asim Zia
Video
   PDF

Extreme events/dynamic regional climate models
Brian Beckage
Video
   PDF

Extreme events/dynamic regional climate models
Arne Bomblies
Video
   PDF

BREE IAM Development Plan and PTAC role
Asim Zia
Video
   PDF

Framing decision problems: Optimization examples
Donna Rizzo
Video
   PDF

Multi-objective optimization model of Lake Champlain
Jory Hecht
Video
   PDF