A Research and Monitoring Agenda for Lake Champlain. Proceedings of a Workshop, December 17-19, 1991, Burlington, VT.LCBP Technical Report #1

Lake Champlain Research Consortium (1992). A Research and Monitoring Agenda for Lake Champlain. Proceedings of a Workshop, December 17-19, 1991, Burlington, VT (Technical Report No. 1). Grand Isle, VT: Lake Champlain Basin Program

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.