The 2019 Summary Report of Activities summary highlights LCBP projects and grants that were in progress or concluded between October 1, 2018 and September 30, 2019. The full Annual Report of Activities includes a comprehensive listing of projects, grants, and external contracts managed by LCBP, and key LCBP tasks implemented by staff during this time period. The LCBP received federal funding in FY 2019 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, and the National Park Service.

This report includes an introduction and workshop overview written by M.C. Watzin, followed by a summary of the keynote address given December 17, 1991, by Trefor B. Reynoldson of the National Water Research Institute, Environment Canada. The keynote address title is “Setting Environmental Targets Using Biological Endpoints”. Next is a summary of M.C. Watzin’s address, “State of Knowledge about Lake Champlain”. A summary of the Vermont Water Resources and Lake Studies Center’s Alan W. McIntosh’s address, “Monitoring in the Lake Champlain Basin”, follows. The next section of this document is a collection of working group session reports. Each report follows the same format, beginning with an introduction, followed by sections titled Approach and Discussion, Highest Priority Research and Monitoring Needs, and Other Research and Monitoring Needs. Each report also includes a list of facilitators and participants. The working group session reports address the following topics: recreation management, cultural resources, economics, land and shoreline use, nutrient cycling and eutrophication, fate and effects of toxic substances, human health, atmospheric processes and deposition, watershed processes, in-lake processes – hydrodynamics, wetlands and other critical habitats, fish and exotic species, wildlife, ecosystem health, ecosystem modeling, and data management and geographic information systems. The report concludes with a summary of a public forum held at the workshop, a synthesis of common highest priority research needs, and the names and addresses of participants.

This report addresses existing GIS resources within the basin and the GIS needs of the Lake Champlain Basin Program (LCBP). It proposes a GIS service for the LCBP; makes policy, procedural, and technical recommendations; and suggests an implementation schedule. The report calls for minor improvements of hardware and software and asserts that the LCBP’s priority for GIS should be to improve organization of data to provide uniform basin-wide data and to ensure that basin GIS activities occur logically and non-redundantly.

The 2021 Report of Activities highlights LCBP projects that were in progress or concluded between October 1, 2020 and September 30, 2021. It includes a comprehensive listing of external contracts managed by LCBP, and key LCBP tasks implemented by staff during this time period. The LCBP received federal funding in FY 2021 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, and the National Park Service and the International Joint Commission.

The 2021 Report of Activities highlights LCBP projects that were in progress or concluded between October 1, 2020 and September 30, 2021. It includes a comprehensive listing of external contracts managed by LCBP, and key LCBP tasks implemented by staff during this time period. The LCBP received federal funding in FY 2021 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, and the National Park Service and the International Joint Commission.