Celebrating Our Dedicated Volunteers

LCC’s Executive Director Jenny Patterson and Water and Science Program Coordinator Lindsey Cookson celebrate with volunteers from both sides of Lake Champlain.

Volunteers are essential to LCC’s work, whether they are tossing rakes as CHAMP aquatic invasive species patrollers, advocating for lake health to legislators and state agencies, or diligently photographing and reporting cyanobacteria conditions each week. This September, we celebrated our volunteers at gatherings in our Burlington office and at Ballard Beach in Westport, New York, providing these dedicated individuals with the opportunity to meet each other and catch up with us.  

As our CHAMP and cyanobacteria monitoring programs wrap up their field seasons, LCC is profoundly grateful for the many hours our dedicated volunteers commit to our programs. For those looking to get involved prior to the 2026 field season, we have opportunities available year-round such as stuffing envelopes and sleuthing for phosphorus in fertilizer stores. If you are interested, please let us know by filling out our online volunteer interest form. Thanks to all of our many volunteers! 

Petra welcomed volunteers to the LCC office at the Burlington, VT gathering.