Questions of my Topic

1. Ecosystems are complex. What features must an ecosystem have to be balanced? especially for The Lake Champlain?

2. Why the ecosystem balance of The Lake Champlain is important for the Vermonters, even for Americans and whole people of the world?

3. Weather the human direct activities has larger influence than the natural activities or not ?
     1> How do  human activities effect the ecosystem of  The Lake Champlain?
     2> How do the natural factors effect the ecosystem of The Lake Champlain?(especially for  climate change)

4.What determine the productivity of ecosystem?

5.Can you describe a stable or ideal community of ecosystem of The Lake Champlain?

http://newenglandboating.com/fishing/lamprey-poisoned-in-lake-champlain.html

http://newenglandboating.com/fishing/lamprey-poisoned-in-lake-champlain.html

Four people

1.Bill HowlandBasin 
Program Manager
(802) 372-0216
whowland@lcbp.org

William G. Howland has been the manager of the Lake Champlain Basin Program (LCBP) based in Grand Isle, Vermont, US, since 1999. Bill has B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Vermont and a Ph.D. from McGill University specializing in biophysical remote sensing and terrain analysis in arctic and subarctic regions. His research, teaching experience and publications include biophysical remote sensing and terrain modeling, ecological biogeography, physical geography and arctic field studies. He was Director of the Northern Studies Program on the faculty of Middlebury College (VT) for a decade, followed by five years as Executive Director of Green Mountain Audubon Society. He lives in Isle La Motte, Vermont.

2.Jason Stockwell 
Associate Professor / Director of Rubenstein Ecosystem Science Lab of University of Vermont
Email: jason.stockwell@uvm.edu
Phone: 802-859-3095Office: Rubenstein Ecosystem Science Lab3 College StreetRubenstein Lab: http://www.uvm.edu/~ecolab/



3.Deborah MarkowitzSecretary, Vermont Agency of Natural Resources
Secretary's Office
1 National Life Drive, Davis 2
Montpelier, Vermont 05620-3901
phone: 802-828-1294


4.Meriel Brooks
Co-Directors of the  Lake Champlain Research Consortium
(BrooksM@greenmtn.edu)



5.Doug Facey(ok)
Web manager of  the  Lake Champlain Research Consortium
dfacey@smcvt.edu

6.The Lake champlain Basin Program
Lake Champlain Basin Program
54 West Shore Road
Grand Isle, VT 05458
44.618577,-73.312626
Tel. (802) 372-3213 or (800) 468-5227 (NY & VT)
Fax. (802) 372-3233
Email. lcbp@lcbp.org
7.The Lake Champlain Martime Museum
Email: info@lcmm.org
Phone: (802) 475-2022
Fax: (802) 475-2953
Lake Champlain Maritime Museum
4472 Basin Harbor Rd
Vergennes, VT 05491

Six " News" Resources and Dynamic Resources of Project #2

Six "News" Resources:

1. Effects of a Changing Climate on the Lake Champlain Ecosystem
http://plan.lcbp.org/ofa-database/chapters/effects-of-a-changing-climate-on-the-lake

2.Nutrients
http://www.lcbp.org/water-environment/water-quality/nutrients/

3.How does climate change affect lake champlain?
http://sol.lcbp.org/climate-change_affect-lake-champlain.html

4.Toxic Chemicals in Water
http://lakechamplainea.wordpress.com/provisioning-services/toxic-chemicals-in-water/

5.2011 TRI National Analysis: Large Aquatic Ecosystems - Lake Champlain Basin
http://www2.epa.gov/toxics-release-inventory-tri-program/2011-tri-national-analysis-large-aquatic-ecosystems-lake

6.Managing Aquatic Invasive Plants and Animals
http://plan.lcbp.org/ofa-database/chapters/managing-aquatic-invasive-plants-and-animals

7.what is being done to preserve biodiversity in the basin?
http://sol.lcbp.org/biodiversity_preserving-biodiversity-in-basin.html

8.Lake Champlain Land Trust
http://www.lclt.org/about-lake-champlain/lake-champlain-facts/

9.Water, Economy and Humans: The Lake Champlain Basin
http://lakechamplainea.wordpress.com/provisioning-services/water-economy-and-humans-the-lake-champlain-basin/

10.Invasive Species
http://www.lakechamplaincommittee.org/lcc-at-work/invasive-species-in-lake/

12.Invasive Species guide of The Lake Champlain
http://adkinvasives.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Lake-Champlain-Basin-Aquatic-Invasive-Species-Guide.pdf

13.Lamprey Poisoned in Lake Champlain
http://newenglandboating.com/fishing/lamprey-poisoned-in-lake-champlain.html

14. The lake champlain & Mephremago
http://www.anr.state.vt.us/anr/envrpts/Env97/DOCS/LCM.htm

15.Managing Sediment, Phosphorus & Nitrogen Pollution
http://www.watershedmanagement.vt.gov/erp/htm/prob.htm

16.An important pdf for this topic
http://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/legacy/assets/documents/global_warming/greatlakes_final.pdf

17.http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/life/green-mountain/2014/09/30/lake-bound-lamprey-crosshairs/16505217/

Six dynamic Resources:

1.Lake Champlain Maritime Museum
https://www.facebook.com/LCMaritimeMuseum

2.Lake Champlain Basin Program
https://www.facebook.com/LakeChamplainBasin

3.ECHO Lake Aquarium & Science Center
https://www.facebook.com/echovermont

Project #2: ENVIRO NEWS BLOG

Topic: the change of the lake ecosystem of  Lake Champlain in vermont in 50 years

First Resources:
               1. Lake Champlain Basin Program:
                   http://plan.lcbp.org/

               2.The Lake Champlain Fish and Wildlife Resources Office :
                  http://www.fws.gov/lcfwro/aboutus.html

               
              3.The Lake Champlain International
                  http://www.mychamplain.net/category/lci-store-front/lake-champlain-water-ecology-fisheries-biology-trips-uvms-melosira-research
               
              4.Lake Champlain Committee
                http://www.lakechamplaincommittee.org/lcc-at-work/invasive-species-in-lake/