BREE Graduate Research Assistant Jesse Gourevitch and Ecological Systems Team Member Beverley Wemple, PhD are among the authors on a new paper, "Improving flood hazard datasets using a low-complexity, probabilistic floodplain mapping approach." The article, whose authors also include Rebecca Diehl, PhD of the UVM Department of Geography and Stephanie Drago of the UVM Rubenstein School of ...

The Spring 2021 VT EPSCoR magazine features:

• VT EPSCoR Research at the Heart of Vermont's New Clean Waters Management Program
• Virtual Policy and Techinical Advisory Comittee (PTAC) Meeting
• Lake Champlain Basin Water Quality Data Dashboards Open for Stakeholders and Broader Public

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The Burlington, Vermont-based company Precision Bioassay, Inc will receive a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for their proposal "‘Better Bioassays via Designs for Robots Analyses with Improved Model Selection and Similarity Bounds that Limit Potency Bias." The award represents the culmination of several years of research that ...

Mandar Dewoolkar, PhD, PE, FASCE, a Professor and Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Vermont and member of the BREE Ecological Systems Team, recently published a study examining the depiction and portrayal of engineers and engineering in US broadcast network television evening news. The study, "Portrayal of Engineers and Engineering in US Broadcast Network Television ...

BREE Graduate Research Assistant Jesse Gourevitch presented a seminar and PhD defense titled "Evaluating the Distributional Equity of Ecosystem Services Under Alternative Land Use and Climate Change Scenarios" on March 8, 2021. Due to restrictions in place as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the seminar was presented remotely via Zoom.

Packetized Energy, a leading developer of software and smart devices that help utilities and consumers manage electricity demand, began at UVM eight years ago. The company was awarded a VT EPSCoR SBIR Phase (0) and SBIR Travel Award in addition to VT EPSCoR supported private sector partners, LaunchVT (second prize), and cc:econ Future Formula awards. Congratulations, Packetized!

Vermont EPSCoR hosted a virtual Alan Alda Communicating Science Workshop on January 26, 2021. The workshop, which had been held on the University of Vermont campus in previous years, went virtual this year due to restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Instructors from the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stonybrook University facilitated the half-day workshop, with exercises ...

From January through May 2021, Vermont PBS will re-air episodes of Emerging Science, a special series developed in partnership with Vermont EPSCoR. This engaging series focuses on Vermont researchers performing cutting-edge scientific inquiry including energy, transportation, and the technology of social sciences. Each episode of Emerging Science focuses specifically on Vermonters within a field ...

CWDD Operations Manager Janel Roberge paid a virtual visit to fifth and sixth grade students from Wardsboro School in Wardsboro, VT (Windham County) in December 2020. The visit represented the culmination of several weeks of preparation with teacher Samatha Bovat, who had not previously worked with Vermont EPSCoR. The outreach established a connection with a new school and helped the teacher ...

On October 21, 2020, the VT EPSCoR CWDD partnered with the North Branch Nature Center to host a virtual macroinvertebrate event “Turning Stones: Exploring Aquatic Invertebrates” led by Declan McCabe.

On Wednesday, October 28, 2020, VT EPSCoR CWDD's Janel Roberge met (virtually) with several classes from Harwood Union Middle School. This was teacher Angela Selvaggio's first attempt at hosting a remote guest speaker in the classroom. VT EPSCoR CWDD had previously provided a taxonomic macroinvertebrate key for students to use and Roberge and Selvaggio had recorded a "how-to" video for students in ...

A four-year, $3 million NSF project will use a unique approach to develop, test and implement new precision agriculture tools and public policies that are socially and economically feasible for farmers, rural communities and the environment.