January - Counter Currents - how fish gills work

February - Freezing and Lake Ice - how ice forms on the lake

March - Fix A Leak For The Lake - how water conservation helps Lake Champlain

April - Cleaning Out - what happens to phosphorus after it gets into the lake?

May - Lake Flooding - What's it Mean? - what record high lake levels will mean

July - The Season of Peak Water Waste - tips for saving water around the yard

August - Duckweed - an introduction to the smallest vascular plants

September - Tern, Tern, Tern - an introduction to the three tern species found on Lake Champlain

October - Tropical Storm Irene: How Do We Respond? - how we treat our rivers after Tropical Storm Irene will affect Lake Champlain for decades to come

November - Tropical Storm Irene: How Do We Prepare For The Next One? - tools for making our landscape more resilient to flooding events

December - Gaging - The Future - stream gages in the Champlain Basin threatened by a lack of funding.

January - Steam Devils - mini-tornadoes on Lake Champlain

February - Pollution Trade-offs - why more nutrient pollution leads to less mercury contamination

March - The Lake Can Bite Ya - misadventures on the lake

April - Tugboat McAllister - the 1963 sinking of  a tugboat on the lake

May - Manufactured Gas - coal tars left from early industry and remediation efforts

June - A Snail's Pace - an introduction to snails

July - The Mutual Suffering of Milfoil and Algae - allelopathy between milfoil and algae

August - The Color of Water - what influences the colors we see in the lake?

September - Low Level Jets - lake driven autumnal windstorms

October - Antimicrobials - Extreme Clean Isn't Green - risks of antimicrobial soaps

November - Climate Change and Daphnia - an introduction to some zooplankton and how reduced ice cover affects them

December - Frosty Snow - snow physics

January - What Champlain Saw - notes from Samuel de Champlain's journals of his time on the lake

February - What Champlain Didn't See - changes in the landscape since 1609

March - The International Joint Commission - a history of IJC's involvement on Lake Champlain

April - On Driveways and Water Quality - impacts of driveways and sealants on water quality

May - How Can I Keep from Singing - songs of birds, amphibians, and fish

June - Parasites - an introduction to aquatic parasites

July - The Chazy Reef - fossils of the Chazy formation on Isle La Motte

August - Mosquitoes and Bats - the diversity of mosquitoes and the impacts of white-nosed syndrome in bats

September - The Future of Agriculture in the Champlain Basin - Time for a Switch? - switchgrass as an alternative agriculture

October - Rainbows - the physics of rainbows

November - Ballast - Stabilizing Ships, Destabilizing Ecosystems - ballast water as a source of invasive species

December - A Lake's Carol - Dicken's Christmas Carol adapted for Lake Champlain

May - Mildly Caffeinated - new generation contaminants in Lake Champlain

June - Don't P on Your Lawn - phosphorus in lawn fertilizer

July - Household Hydrology - home stormwater mitigation measures

August - Slosh Slosh - the internal seiche

September - Asian Clams - Annoyance or Nuisance? - Asian clams - a new 'invasive' species at Lake Champlain's doorstep

October - Rain, Rain Go Away - rain and lake levels

November - Marshes - an introduction to different types of marshes

December - The Case of the Three-legged Frog - frog deformities and possible causes

The best of Lake Looks from 2002 through mid-2008 are collected in LCC's award winning book, Lake Champlain: A Natural History available for purchase on our website.