Lake Champlain Sea Grant Launches Research Publication Library

By Erin O'Mara, Undergraduate Student
March 18, 2021

Are you looking for peer-reviewed, scientific publications about research in the Lake Champlain basin? Then check out Lake Champlain Sea Grant’s new Zotero Library! We have compiled more than 450 papers about all kinds of environmental research conducted in the Lake Champlain basin.

Whether you are looking for information about plants, climate, water quality, or more, this research database has it all! With the earliest paper published in 1969 (more than 50 years ago!) to papers published this past December 2020, this collection covers a lot of ground (and water!) and is updated regularly. The best part? It is really easy to navigate.

You can search for papers using title, author’s name, and/or publication year—or for a broader search, you can use tags. Tags are words that might not be used in the title but are prevalent enough in the paper that they can still be used as search terms. For example, if you are trying to find a paper about Lake Champlain water levels over time, you could use the tags “drought” or “floods” to narrow your search.

Once you find your paper, Zotero lists other helpful information such as: the abstract, journal/publication, and the DOI/ISSN identifiers.

You can find our Zotero research publication library at zotero.org/groups/2645918/lake_champlain_research/library. We hope you use this thorough and easy-to-use database, and if you have any questions, feel free to contact us at seagrant [at] uvm.edu. Happy researching!

 

Undergraduate student Erin O’Mara completed the work to populate the Lake Champlain Sea Grant’s Zotero Library of 450+ research articles, alongside the work of former ECO AmeriCorps member Annie Schatz and University of Vermont current student Kristen Livingstone and former student Quinn Ledak. Erin and Kristen are both student employees of Lake Champlain Sea Grant and undergraduates in the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources. Erin is majoring in environmental sciences and plans to graduate in 2023. Kristen will graduate in 2021 with a degree in environmental studies and a minor in sustainable landscape horticulture.