Development of a Comprehensive Binational Phosphorus Mass Balance Analysis Toolkit for the Missisquoi Bay Watershed

Michael Winchell, M.S., Stone Environmental, Inc.; Aubert Michaud, Ph.D., OBVBM; Andrew Schroth, Ph.D., University of Vermont; Eric Roy, Ph.D., University of Vermont; Joshua Faulkner, Ph.D., University of Vermont; Patrick Clemins, Ph.D., University of Vermont (2026). Development of a Comprehensive Binational Phosphorus Mass Balance Analysis Toolkit for the Missisquoi Bay Watershed. Technical Report #120, Grand Isle, VT. Lake Champlain Basin Program.

This project has merged existing basin-wide data and scientific expertise from Quebec and Vermont to quantify the inventory of different P stocks within the Missisquoi Basin’s terrestrial and aquatic compartments, applied physically based and empirical models and data to quantify the fate and transport of P across the basin, and produced a Missisquoi Bay Watershed P Mass Balance Assessment Toolkit for analysis of the P mass balance over the next 30 years under various alternative management scenarios.