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ecoNEWS VT Partners

Lake Champlain Sea Grant
dedicated to improving the understanding and management of Lake Champlain, Lake George and their watersheds for long-term environmental health and sustainable economic development.

A cooperative program of the University of Vermont and SUNY Plattsburgh, Lake Champlain Sea Grant is a part of a national network of 35 projects and programs at coastal and Great Lakes colleges, coordinated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative
Providing the information needed to understand, manage, and protect northeastern forested ecosystems in a changing global environment.
The mission of the Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative is to serve the northeast temperate forest region through improved understanding of long-term trends, annual conditions, and interdisciplinary relationships of the physical, chemical, and biological components of forested ecosystems.
Northeastern States Research Cooperative
A competitive grant program funded by the USDA Forest Service and supporting cross-disciplinary, collaborative research in the Northern Forest - a 26-million acre working landscape that is home to more than one million residents and stretches from eastern Maine through New Hampshire and Vermont and into northern New York.

The NSRC addresses the importance of the Northern Forest to society and the need for research to have relevance and benefit to the people who live there, work with its resources, use its products, visit it, and care about it.
Vermont Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
The Vermont Unit is one of 40 similar Cooperative Research Units located at land-grant universities throughout the United States. It is jointly sponsored by the Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey, the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department, the University of Vermont, and the Wildlife Management Institute.

Research at the Vermont Unit aims to address questions in fisheries and wildlife conservation and management that are of interest to state and federal natural resource management agencies and conservation organizations. Areas of research emphasis are lake food webs, invasive species, landscape ecology, conservation biology, and population modeling.
Vermont Water Resources and Lake Studies Center
One of 54 institutes established by Congress through the Water Resources Research Act of 1964 and located at the land-grant university in each state, the District of Columbia and three U.S. territories.

The Vermont Water Center has served the citizens of the state of Vermont by funding research on major issues of concern to the state, by disseminating information on water resources throughout Vermont and by helping to educate students about the various aspects of water resources.
Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources
Offering exciting, hands-on environmental programs that integrate natural sciences and social perspectives.

The Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources cultivates an appreciation and enhanced understanding of ecological and social processes and values aimed at maintaining the integrity of natural systems and achieving a sustainable human community in harmony with the natural environment.
Rubenstein Ecosystem Science Laboratory
State-of-the-art research and teaching facilities for the study of aquatic ecology and watershed sciences.

Located on the shores of Lake Champlain, researchers at the Rubenstein Ecosystem Science Laboratory use a suite of observational, experimental, and modeling approaches to improve our understanding of ecological processes for both basic and applied applications.
Vermont Center for Ecostudies
Uniting people and science for conservation

The Vermont Center for Ecostudies advances wildlife conservation with the combined force of scientific research and informed citizens. Our biologists study birds, insects, amphibians, and other wildlife from Canada to South America. Enhancing our work is a legion of volunteer citizen naturalists.