LCC Staff Scientist Named TAC Chair
LCC Staff Scientist Mike Winslow was recently appointed to chair the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) for the Lake Champlain Basin Program (LCBP).
Lake Champlain Committee Staff Scientist Mike Winslow was recently appointed to chair the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) for the Lake Champlain Basin Program (LCBP). The TAC is composed of professionals from academia, state and federal agencies, and other arenas, and is charged with identifying key technical information critical to lake management, advising the Basin Program about emerging issues, and developing and overseeing technical aspects of projects. As the chair of the TAC, Mike now also sits on the LCBP Steering Committee, a body charged with coordinating lake management, securing and directing funding for the lake, and developing the Basin Program’s annual budget. “It is a great honor to serve as TAC chair,” Mike said. “I look forward to using the position to help advance lake restoration goals.”
In just the past few months the TAC has overseen a variety of projects that improve lake stewardship. Recently completed projects include an identification of barriers to fish passage in the Ausable River network that will help prioritize culvert projects that protect against flooding and promote healthy fish populations, a water quality monitoring program on the Chazy River, and a project that quantified sediment and phosphorus loading for portions of the Missisquoi River watershed helping us understand the importance of this so far under estimated phosphorus source. Recently initiated projects include mapping impervious surfaces throughout the Basin which will assist in reducing stormwater pollution and development of an enhanced backroad management program in the New York portion of the Basin to complement similar programs working to protect water quality in Vermont. LCC’s guidance and input through the TAC has strengthened each of these projects.
