Mark Your Calendars for Our Spring 2022 Research Webinars

Lake Champlain Sea Grant is pleased to announce its spring 2022 research seminar series. Each of the four monthly webinars will feature Sea Grant-funded researchers and their work in the Lake Champlain basin.

Tune into Zoom to learn more about the testing of a wood chip bioreactor for treating effluent from the Bolton Wastewater Treatment Plant on the New York side of Lake Champlain and the study of tile drains and phosphorus losses in runoff from farm fields in the basin. Researchers will share exciting new findings from both of these completed projects.

The seminar series will also highlight an ongoing study of invasive forage fish and native fish in Lake Champlain and an ongoing investigation of winter mercury patterns and environmental risks in the lake.

Learn more about the seminars and how to join the events:

• Efficacy of a Wood Chip Bioreactor for Denitrification of Tertiary Effluent from the Bolton Wastewater Treatment Plant
  Speakers: Kathleen Suozzo, Environmental & civil engineering consultant; Chris Navitsky, Lake George Waterkeeper; Jim Sutherland, Lake George Association 
  Wednesday, January 26, 2022 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm


• Increasing Our Understanding of Tile Drainage Hydrology and Phosphorus Losses in Subsurface and Surface Runoff from Farm Fields in the Lake Champlain Basin
  Speaker: Joshua Faulkner, UVM Extension
  Wednesday, February 23, 2022 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm


• Modeling the Impacts of Forage Fish Invasion and Native Piscivore Establishment on the Food Web of Lake Champlain
  Speaker: Justin Lesser, University of Vermont Rubenstein Ecosystem Science Laboratory
  Wednesday, March 30, 2022 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm


• Winter Mercury Patterns in Lake Champlain and Future Environmental Health Risks
  Speaker: Roxanne Karimi, Stony Brook University and Vermont Department of Health
  Wednesday, April 27, 2022 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm