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Lake Look

Lake Look is a monthly essay produced by the Lake Champlain Committee and written by staff scientist Mike Winslow.  Essays cover the natural history of the lake and current issues about lake management.  Lake Look is distributed to newspapers throughout the basin and is available to members by email.  Links here take you to some of the recent columns.

Many of the Lake Look columns have been pulled together in the recent book LAKE CHAMPLAIN:  A NATURAL HISTORY. 

After the Floods - Did the Fish Survive?
January 2012 - How fish handled spring lake flooding and Tropical Storm Irene.
Gaging - The Future
December 2011 - Stream gages in the Champlain Basin threatened by a lack of funding.
Tropical Storm Irene: How Do We Prepare For The Next One?
November 2011 - Tools for making our landscape more resilient to flooding events
Tropical Storm Irene: How Do We Respond?
October 2011 - How we treat our rivers after Tropical Storm Irene will affect Lake Champlain for decades to come.
Tern, Tern, Tern
September 2011 - An introduction to the three tern species found on Lake Champlain.
Duckweed
August 2011 - An introduction to the smallest vascular plants
The Season of Peak Water Waste
July 2011- Tips for saving water around the yard
Lake Flooding - What's it Mean?
May 2011 - what record high lake levels will mean
Cleaning Out
April 2011 - What happens to phosphorus after it gets into the lake?
Fix A Leak For The Lake
March 2011- How water conservation helps Lake Champlain
Freezing and Lake Ice
February 2011 - how ice forms on the lake
Counter Currents
January 2011 - How fish gills work
Frosty Snow
December 2010 - An introduction to snow physics
Archives
Access to older Lake Look columns