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Quantifying phosphorus retained by restored wetlands in the Lake Champlain Basin

January 17, 2023 — Project Summary: Over three years from 2019-2021, a UVM-based research team used field studies in Otter Creek and Lewis Creek… Read More

Determining the amount of sediment and nutrients captured by floodplains in the Lake Champlain Basin

October 26, 2022 — Project summary: Floodplains play an important role in storing and transforming nutrients in the Lake Champlain Basin, and floodplain restoration… Read More

Concentrations of legacy organic contaminants in Lake Champlain lake trout

March 9, 2022 — Project Summary: From 2012-2018, researchers measured the concentrations of six types of organic contaminants in lake trout collected from Lake… Read More

Measuring phosphorus contributions from agricultural tile drains in the Jewett Brook watershed

January 19, 2022 — Project Summary: Over two years from 2016 to 2017, water flow and phosphorus concentrations were measured in 12 tile drain… Read More

Lake Champlain Atlantic salmon have potential to naturally adapt in response to invasive species impacts

December 3, 2021 — Project summary: A 2019 study by Avril M. Harder et al. explored whether genetic variation in Lake Champlain Atlantic salmon… Read More

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