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11/14/2024

The Water Resources Institute Welcomes Dr. Keith Jennings, Director of Research

Dr. Keith Jennings will join the University of Vermont’s Water Resources Institute (WRI) in November 2024. Dr. Jennings will serve as the Director of Research, aiming to develop the institute in the areas of water prediction, water data science, risk communication, climate resiliency planning,...

10/15/2024

Connecting Peaks to Streams: Exploring Snowpack and Streamflow at Mount Mansfield

Backpacks unzipped, vests and fleeces and parkas were strewn about, and a group of researchers quickly added layer upon layer to combat the chill on top of Mount Mansfield. It was a perfectly warm fall day below the treeline, but it was a different story up on the tallest peak in Vermont, where...

05/18/2024

UVM Water Resource Institute Takes Aim at Global Crises

The University of Vermont’s Board of Trustees approved during its annual May meeting Friday and Saturday the creation of a new research engine to leverage decades of research excellence in water science, environmental engineering, and socio-ecological systems. The...

Beverly Wemple and two other people working in a field

04/06/2022

UVM to Contribute in National Effort to Improve Water Management

The University of Vermont (UVM)—in collaboration with 28 universities and institutions—is poised to advance its status as a prominent institution in hydrological research. This new initiative was made possible through the tireless efforts of Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., with...

Photo of water drain

06/05/2024

Gone Fishin’: Ellen Marsden Retires after 26 Years with the Rubenstein School

Dr. J. Ellen Marsden, Professor of Fisheries Biology, retired from the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Vermont (UVM) in May 2024. She was celebrated for her countless contributions to UVM and the state of Vermont at a ceremony during the spring...

Ellen Marsden on the deck of a boat handling a fish

05/09/2024

Free Course Offered on Stormwater Education

Burlington--Stormwater education helps promote a greater awareness within a community about the importance of minimizing stormwater impacts as well as ways individuals can do their part. To help teachers and others who provide stormwater-focused educational programming to youths, the...

closeup of blue lake water

04/17/2024

UVM PhD Students Lead International Team in Carbon Flux Research

Amelia (Mia) McReynolds is a third-year PhD student in the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Vermont (UVM). As an ecologist studying fish population dynamics in the Great Lakes, McReynolds didn’t imagine research abroad would be a part of her graduate...

Researchers taking zooplankton samples at the LakeLab

11/20/2023

How Will Climate Change Impact Snow Sports?

With ski resorts set to open across the U.S., skiers and snowboarders—and the entire winter sports industry—are turning their attention to the snow forecast. After a summer of extreme weather, University of Vermont experts shared their insights on how...

A photo of a snowboarder carving through snowy Vermont woods.

08/29/2023

UVM Launches Six Innovative Flood Research Projects

In a time of unprecedented rainfall and flooding throughout Vermont in July 2023, the University of Vermont’s (UVM) Office of Research in collaboration the Gund Institute for Environment issued a call for proposals for rapid...

Fields in Vermont flooded after rainfall

08/22/2023

Searching for (Mysid) Shrimp in Lake Champlain

The sun was setting behind the Adirondacks on a clear summer evening and Lake Champlain was flat as a mirror. The only disturbance was the hum of a small motor propelling an aluminum boat. Rosie Chapina — a PhD student in the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources — had her net...

02/21/2023

Some Blooms Like it Hot, Others Like it Cold

In recent years it has become increasingly common that on some of the hottest days of the summer, the freshwater lakes and ponds that we rely on to cool down are closed due to dangerous cyanobacterial blooms. Beyond this effect on recreation, blooms also have a significant, negative impact on...

On the left Dr. Morales-Williams samples freshwater from an ice covered lake, on the right a frozen Lake Champlain

01/19/2023

Gund Institute Names 2023 Catalyst Award Winners

The Gund Institute for Environment at the University of Vermont today announced $250,000 in Catalyst Awards for two new research projects tackling urgent U.S. water issues fueled by climate change.    These seed grants will launch new UVM research on U.S. water quality...

Top (L to R): Carol Adair and Raju Badireddy. Bottom: Leon Walls and Julia Perdrial.

12/14/2022

Breck Bowden Leaves Leadership Legacy in Watershed Science and Planning

Professor William “Breck” Bowden served as the inaugural Robert F. and Genevieve B. Patrick Endowed Chair in Watershed Science and Planning in the University of Vermont (UVM) Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources for 20 years....

Breck Bowden

06/08/2022

New tool for conservation and restoration planning: floodplain maps for Vermont’s Lake Champlain basin

Land use planners and researchers in Vermont now have access to maps that show how floods of different sizes are expected to spread across surfaces within river valleys....

floodplain map