Publications

Sign that describes how grass grows and part of an educational display showing real grass growing with roots visible. This project is part of the Raise the Blade campaign.

This scientific journal article by Stephanie Hurley and others assessed how design factors of bioretention systems influence flow rates and pollutant mass removal. This research compared the labile and nonlabile pollutant mass (TSS, N, and P species) captured or released by bioretention cells with different vegetation compositions and soil media treatments on an equal volume basis in eight roadside bioretention systems.

Briefing Book for Lake Champlain Sea Grant's July 2017 Institutional Status Proposal and Site Review held in Burlington, VT.

This poster displays research by Danielle Garneau and her students at SUNY Plattsburgh to determine whether microplastics are uptaken by invertebrates, fish, and double-crested cormorants resident to Lake Champlain. This research was funded by Lake Champlain Sea Grant.

This poster displays research by Danielle Garneau and her students at SUNY Plattsburgh to survey for microplastics from wastewater treatment facility post-treatment effluent from the city of Plattsburgh, NY and beginning in fall 2016 from St Albans, VT, Ticonderoga, NY, and Burlington, VT. This research was funded by Lake Champlain Sea Grant.

A public service announcement about how phosphorus affects our waterways.

Learn about an app available to help boaters find pumpout stations on Lake Champlain or Lake George

This scientific journal article by Stephanie Hurley and others examines the greenhouse gas emission potential of bioretention systems. The researchers monitored eight roadside bioretention systems during two growing seasons to measure CO2-C and N2O-N fluxes. The study found that while there were season shifts in CO2 fluxes, bioretention systems are an overall net Carbon sink and not a significant source of N2O. The researchers give recommendations on how to further sequester carbon and nutrients in bioretention systems.

This guide helps homeowners and small business owners who are not subject to stormwater permits and regulations identify ways to improve and protect water quality and manage stormwater runoff on their properties using green stormwater infrastructure practices.