Asim Zia, Ph.D. serves as VT EPSCoR Science Co-Leader for the Integrated Assessment Model Team (IAM) with the Basin Resilience to Extreme Events in the Lake Champlain Basin (BREE), RII Track-1 Award. As a Fulbright Scholar, Zia will spend time in Pakistan, Israel and Ecuador working at the local, national and international policy levels to improve border relations and water use practices, as well ...

Yajaira Torres-De Jesus, science teacher at Colegio Rosa Bell in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico and 2019-2020 BREE High School Teacher, has been named an Advocate by the Society for Science & The Public for 2020-2021. The society awards STEM teachers who demonstrate a profound commitment to students of difference races and ethnicities in STEM and students from low-income households. The award includes a ...

The first-ever Summer Virtual Science Camp for high school students hosted by the VT EPSCoR CWDD at Saint Michael’s College was held on July 20-23, 2020. Innovating ways to offer outreach efforts with high school students due to the COVID-19 pandemic offered an opportunity for students to learn online presentation skills and scientific research methods that traditionally would have been held ...

Large fishing spiders walking on water can be fascinating – or terrifyingly unnerving. The latter reaction is common among Saint Michael's College students as we sample Vermont’s streams and ponds. On one occasion, a normally macho student screamed, dropped his net, and leaped from the stream to avoid a particularly large specimen. But have no fear; these beautiful beasts will not carry your ...

Christopher Koliba, PhD, UVM Professor of Community Development and Applied Economics and Leader of the BREE Social Systems team, has received an appointment to serve as President's Fellow for Engagement to support UVM's newly created Office of Engagement. UVM President Suresh Garimella announced the appointment in an email to the UVM community on July 16, 2020.

Veronica Sosa-Gonzalez, PhD, Vermont EPSCoR CWDD Coordinator, has been elected to serve as a member of the NSF EPSCoR Education, Outreach and Diversity (EOD) Council. Dr. Sosa-Gonzalez will serve as an at-large member on the EOD Council for the 2020-2021 period.

The 2019-2020 VT EPSCoR CWDD High School Symposium was held virtually this year due to Covid-19. Webpages created by our High School teams showcased their work over the past year. Posters, video presentations, work descriptions and photos which are usually shared in person during the HS Symposium are now available online. Please join us in congratulating our High School teachers and students for ...

A multi-disciplinary team of researchers representing the University of Vermont, the University of Rhode Island, the University of Delaware, and Colorado State University has published a study that may help create environmental policies that more effectively address pollution in our nation's most critical waterways. The study considers human activity in watersheds such as Lake Champlain, Delaware ...

Asim Zia, Ph.D., is a co-leader of the Integrated Assessment Modeling (IAM) team with the VT EPSCoR Basin Resilience to Extreme Events (BREE) program. The University of Vermont Graduate College has named him a new University Scholar for academic year 2020–21. The University Scholars program recognizes distinguished UVM faculty members for sustained excellence in research, creative and scholarly ...

Vermont PBS will re-air the Regional Emmy-award winning documentary miniseries Saving Our Waters beginning on Wednesday, April 29, 2020. Originally aired in Fall 2017, Saving Our Waters focuses on the health and resilience of the Lake Champlain Basin. Vermont EPSCoR provided major funding for the program, and the documentary features research performed by scientists and researchers from the VT ...

Lake Champlain Sea Grant Director Dr. Breck Bowden will be one of many upcoming presenters for the new Lake Champlain Sea Grant, Zoom a Scientist Program, developed in response to the COVID-19 epidemic. The Lake Champlain Sea Grant Program develops and shares science-based knowledge to benefit the environment and economies of the Lake Champlain Basin.

In 2016, Vermont EPSCoR received a $20M award from the National Science Foundation to study and promote resiliency in Lake Champlain Basin. The study aims to provide much needed information to decision-makers as they govern the basin and develop policies that reach far into the future. A novel computer model has been developed, which integrates data collected from sensors in streams, soils, and ...