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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. 

The Mutual Suffering of Milfoil and Algae
July 2010 - The allelopathic relationship between milfoil and algae
A Snail's Pace
June 2010 - Snails - under-appreciated members of the Lake Champlain ecosystem
Manufactured Gas
May 2010 - Historic means of generating light had serious environmental impacts
The Tugboat McAllister
April 2010 - A 1963 shipwreck in Lake Champlain
The Lake Can Bite Ya
March 2010 - Lake adventures sometimes turn dramatic
Pollution Trade-offs
February 2010 - Can one type of water pollution help mediate another?
Steam Devils
January 2010 - mini-tornados on Lake Champlain
A Lake's Carol
December 2009 - Dicken's Christmas Carol adapted for today's Lake Champlain
Ballast - Stabalizing ships, destabilizing ecosystems
November 2009 - Ballast water in ocean going vessels is a source of many of the United States most destructive invasive aquatic species. Finally authorities are getting serious about the threat.
Rainbows
October 2009 - Discover how rainbows can form ON Lake Champlain
The Future of Agriculture in the Champlain Basin - Time for a Switch?
September 2009 - the potential of switchgrass as an agricultural crop in the Champlain Valley
Mosquitoes and Bats
August 2009 - Did you know the Champlain Basing hosts 40 species of mosquitoes and 9 species of bats?
The Chazy Reef
July 2009 - Discover the fossil-rich limestone of Isle La Motte