Vermont Business Magazine The University of Vermont will host its fifth annual Legislative Summit onMonday, November 13in the Davis Center. The topic is water quality. UVM faculty in a range of disciplines will present the results of their cutting-edge research to inform legislators on subjects they will likely confront during the coming session.
WHAT: UVM Legislative Summit. The Summit will have three subtopics:
- Groundwater contaminationwithGeorge Pinder,Eric
Roy,Raju Badireddy. Areas covered:
- Monitoring phosphorus inputs to Lake Champlain
- Ongoing management strategies for nutrient recovery
- Research related to the detection, characterization, and mechanistic understanding of PFOAs with specific focus on the design of novel materials for improved water treatment and reuse.
- Causes and consequences of algalbloomwithBreck Bowden,Chuck RossandChris Koliba. Areas covered:
- Sea Grant's emerging role. (Bowden)
- Solutions being implemented and envisioned to address the agricultural drivers of blooms, with a specific focus on Extension's role. (Ross)
- Overview of the range or research and modeling being done in the Champlain basin and the policy implications drawn. (Koliba)
- Lake Champlain as sentinelwithEllen Marsden,Mindy Morales- Williams, andAndrew Schroth. Areas covered:
- How the lake basin can be monitored to assess changes in the environmental interactions between humans, the landscape and Lake Champlain and subsequent impacts on the health of the lake.
- Aquatic invasive species, nutrient loading and sensor technologies
WHEN:Monday, November 13 from 9to12:30.
WHO:Over 60 legislators, community members and UVM faculty, students and staff will attend. Speaker of the HouseMitzi Johnson, Vice-President for ResearchRichard Galbraith, andBrendan Fisherof the Rubenstein School for the Environment and Natural Resources will make opening remarks.
WHERE: Top floor of the Davis Center on the UVM campus.
WHAT ELSE:The session will take the form of a “slam.” Each of the three sessions, held consecutively, will open with four-minute presentations by each speaker. Speakers will then sit at separate tables for a 40-minute follow-up. Attendees can choose which table/speaker to follow-up with.