College's lake research gets fiscal boost
Posted on August 19, 2010 |
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MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE GEOLOGY professors Pat and Tom Manley recently learned they will be able to replace the college’s old research boat thanks to a $1.7 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The new vessel will be delivered in May of 2012.
Independent photo/Trent Campbell
LAKE CHAMPLAIN — A generation of Middlebury College students has been learning about geology and oceanography on board the R/V Baldwin, a 32-foot Maine lobster boat the college purchased in 1985. It hosts high-tech oceanographic equipment including complex water profilers, sonars and piston and gravity corers that have enabled students and faculty to investigate sediment and boat wrecks on the bottom of Lake Champlain.
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