Lake Champlain Sea Grant webinar TODAY at noon: Restoration and conservation of floodplains in the Lake Champlain basin

[Aude Lochet]

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*Lake Champlain Sea Grant Research Webinar*

Join us for the January 25 research presentation in our spring webinar
series!

*Tools to balance objectives for restoration and conservation of
floodplains in the Lake Champlain basin*

*Date/Time:* Wednesday, January 25, 2023 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

*Location:* Zoom (registration required). *REGISTER HERE
<https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_37lqq-mXTKmIz1Nz3vmDZQ>*.

*Speakers*: Rebecca Diehl and Kristen Underwood, University of Vermont

*Description*: Healthy floodplains and wetlands offer numerous co-benefits
including flood resiliency, nutrient storage, and habitat provisioning.
Accordingly, river managers are increasingly focused on conserving
well-functioning floodplains, and restoring land areas where floodplain
connection has been lost through historic land manipulations. However,
conserving or restoring floodplains has a financial and opportunity cost,
and stakeholders can sometimes hold competing objectives for management of
riverside lands. In this talk, we introduce decision support tools for
evaluating the multiple and sometimes incompatible objectives of
stakeholders for management of floodplains. These tools, developed with Sea
Grant support, aim to balance stakeholder objectives and refine the
rankings of restoration projects developed under Vermont’s Functioning
Floodplain Initiative. Because phosphorus attenuation is a critical
objective amongst most stakeholders to meet clean water goals for Lake
Champlain, research on the capacity of connected floodplains to capture
flood-borne phosphorus is also described. These tools were designed to
support a systems-based management approach that best meets multiple
stakeholder objectives to promote consensus decision making and cost-
effective implementation of nature-based solutions.

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*Aude Lochet, PhD*
(She/Her/Hers)
Lake Champlain Sea Grant, Lake Champlain Research Institute
Water Resources Outreach/Extension Specialist
Adjunct Instructor
SUNY Plattsburgh
Mail box: Hudson Hall 136
Office: Hudson Hall 123
101 Broad Street
Plattsburgh, NY 12901
(o) 518-564-2056
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