LCC's Executive Director Jenny Patterson joined a panel of experts hosted by Adirondack Explorer in early November 2025 about Lake Champlain's water quality and the high cost of inaction when dealing with phosphorus pollution. Check out this article to see a recording of the event. Read...

That's a wrap on the 2025 cyanobacteria monitoring season! We want to extend our heartfelt thanks for the time, care, and commitment of all of our monitors throughout the year. The season wrapped up quietly during Week 21 (11/2 -11/9) on Lake Champlain, with mostly clear reports with a couple low alerts. Read...

Join ADK Explorer's water reporter Zach Matson as he moderates a panel of water quality experts and environmental leaders (including LCC Executive Director Jenny Patterson!) tackling Lake Champlain's persistent water quality challenges. For over three decades, communities and advocates across Lake Champlain’s sprawling watershed have sought to control phosphorus, a key nutrient powering harmful algal blooms in the lake and fueling more public beach closures as summers get hotter. Read...

About 480 million years ago, instead of the chilly, choppy, freshwater lake we’re familiar with, an expansive tropical sea teemed with life in our region. The ancient Chazy Reef was remarkably diverse considering how new multicellular life was at the time--in fact, the it is the oldest known reef on Earth built by a community of different organisms. Read...

In the 20th and final week of the cyanobacteria monitoring season (10/26 - 11/1/2025), we still saw blooms on Lake Champlain and in waterbodies throughout Vermont, including green waters at Graveyard Point in North Hero, vivid swirling patterns at Halls Lake in Newbury, a contained nearshore bloom at Port Kent Beach in Chesterfield, and clear waters with a monarch sighting at Shipyard Point in Highgate. Read...

LCC's Water and Science Program Coordinator Lindsey Cookson, Ph.D., joined Preservation Burlington on CCTV & Town Meeting TV on October 23 to discuss LCC's history, community science programs, and advocacy for lake health. Watch the interview here and learn more about the Paddlers' Trail, our goals for the next field season, and why Lindsey admires cyanobacteria despite the problems they cause. Read...