Lake Champlain: Partnerships and Research in the New Millennium

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Missisquoi Bay — An International Partnership Towards Restoration

   • Martin Mimeault, Tom Manley

   Pages 1-7

3. Reflections on the Relationships between Scientific Research and a Watershed Approach to Water Management: The Case of the Missisquoi Bay Watershed Corporation

   • Chantal d’Auteuil

   Pages 9-20

4. A Preliminary Investigation into the Possible Emission Sources for Atmospheric Mercury Found in the Lake Champlain Basin

   • Ning Gao, Nathan G. Armatas, Benjamin Puchalski, Philip K. Hopke, Richard L. Poirot

   Pages 21-37

5. Effectiveness of Agricultural Best Management Practices in Reducing Phosphorous Loading to Lake Champlain

   • William E. Jokela, John C. Clausen, Donald W. Meals, Andrew N. Sharpley

   Pages 39-52

6. Zebra Mussel Monitoring in the Richelieu River: A Fruitful Interaction between Scientific Research and Public Involvement

   • Yves de Lafontaine, Marcel Comiré

   Pages 53-80

7. Water Quality Improvements Following Riparian Restoration in Two Vermont Agricultural Watersheds

   • Donald W. Meals

   Pages 81-95

8. Temporal and Spatial Variability in Non-Point Source Phosphorus in Relation to Agricultural Production and Terrestrial Indicators: The Beaver Brook Case Study, Pike River Basin, Québec

   • Aubert R. Michaud, Richard Lauzier, Marc R. Laverdière

   Pages 97-121

9. A Benefit-Cost Framework to Evaluate the Impact of Legislation Supporting Reduction of Agricultural Pollution at the Watershed Level

   • Esther Salvano, Alain N. Rousseau, Guy Debailleul, Jean-Pierre Villeneuve

   Pages 123-142

10. Importance of Hydric Soils and Near-Lake Areas as Phosphorus Source Areas in the Lake Champlain Basin: Evidence from a Landscape-Level Model

    • Nicole Seltzer, Deane Wang

    Pages 143-158

11. Using a Landscape Approach to Interpret Diffuse Phosphorus Pollution and Assist with Water Quality Management in the Basins of Lake Champlain (Vermont) and Lac Léman (France)

    • Deane Wang, Jean-Marcel Dorioz, Dominique Trevisan, David C. Braun, Lisa J. Windhausen, Jean-Yves Vansteelant

    Pages 159-189

12. Status and Trends of Phosphorus in Lake Champlain and Its Tributaries, 1990–2000

    • Laura Medalie, Eric Smeltzer

    Pages 191-219

13. A Landscape Scale Evaluation of Phosphorus Retention in Wetlands of the Laplatte River Basin, Vermont, USA

    • Deane Wang, Lisa J. Windhausen, David C. Braun

    Pages 221-239

14. The Occurrence of Cyanobacterial Toxins in Lake Champlain

    • Gregory L. Boyer, Mary C. Watzin, Angela D. Shambaugh, Michael F. Satchwell, Barry H. Rosen, Timothy Mihuc

    Pages 241-257

15. Where Have All the Rotifers Gone? Zooplankton Community Patterns in Lake Champlain from 1992–2001

    • Karen J. Carling, Timothy B. Mihuc, Clifford Siegfried, Robert Bonham, Fred Dunlap

    Pages 259-270

16. Use of GIS and Remote Sensing to Develop Indicators of Phosphorus Non-Point Source Pollution in the Pike River Basin

    • Julie Deslandes, Aubert Michaud, Ferdinand Bonn

    Pages 271-290

17. Influence of Substrate Composition on Distribution of Eastern Sand Darters (Ammocrypta Pellucida) in the Poultney River

    • Douglas E. Facey, Shannon M. O’Brien

    Pages 291-297

18. Lakebed Pockmarks in Burlington Bay, Lake Champlain: I. Hydrodynamics and Implications of Origin

    • Patricia L. Manley, T. O. Manley, Mary C. Watzin, Josh Gutierrez

    Pages 299-329

19. Lakebed Pockmarks in Burlington Bay, Lake Champlain II. Habitat Characteristics and Biological Patterns

    • Mary C. Watzin, Patricia L. Manley, T. O. Manley, Sofia A. Kyriakeas

    Pages 331-348

20. Hydrodynamics of The South Main Lake and South Lake, Lake Champlain

    • T. O. Manley

    Pages 349-383

Lake Cham. plain spans two states, Vermont and New York, as well as two nations, the United States of America and Canada. Such a large body of water facing a wide variety of environmental stresses cannot be put back on the path of restoration without the concerted efforts of motivated stakeholders. In order to be effective, however, these stakeholders must not only be dedicated to their own goals, but more importantly, be aware of, fully understand, and support the efforts of a myriad of other goals brought to the table by other dedicated groups. While easier said than done, Lake Cham. plain has and will continue to benefit from the cooperation and partnerships spanning international to local venues. This monograph represents the result of one of many partnerships between the United States and Canada; specifically the 2002 Spring Symposium sponsored by the Lake Cham. plain Research Consortium that was hosted by the Missisquoi Bay Watershed Corporation (Corporation Bassin Versant Baie Missisquoi) at the Fort Saint-Jean Campus, from May 20-23. The focus of this meeting was to bring together a wide variety of stakeholders to not only leam about new developments and research in the basin, but to forge new and stronger bonds for future cooperation and management of this truly great Iake. TomManley Executive Director of the Lake Champlain Research Consortium V CONTENTS 1. MISSISQUOI BAY- AN INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP TOW ARDS RESTORATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Mactin Mimeault and T. 0. Manley 2.

• bacteria
• environment
• plankton
• pollution
• production
• soil
• wetland

• Lake Champlain Research Consortium Department of Geology, Middlebury College, Middlebury, USA

  Thomas O. Manley

• Department of Geology, Middlebury College, Middlebury, USA

  Patricia L. Manley

• Lake Champlain Research Institute, Plattsburgh State University of New York, Plattsburgh, USA

  Timothy B. Mihuc

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