LAKE CHAMPLAIN
HISTORY
Before 1609 Champlain’s Account, 1609 The Wars on the Lake The Steamboats The Lake’s Trade
BIOLOGY
The Eels Cyanobacteria Blooms The Mussels The Fisheries Species Recorded in the Lake Plankton and Water Chemistry
GEOLOGY
How the Valley Was Made The Thrust, the Reef and the Whale The Lake in 3-D
HYDROLOGY
The Lake, Right Now The Surface Currents The Seiche and the Layers The Watershed The Water Budget Where the Lake Floods Ice Cover
RECREATION
On the Water
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WHITEHALL TO ROUSES POINT · THE BASIN IN 3-D

Lake Champlain

The bed from NOAA-chart isobaths. The blue sheet is the measured water surface (four USGS gauges); the gold sheet is the thermocline — a two-layer model, not a measurement — sloshing through the last week; the red ring traces where it meets the basin walls. Malletts Bay, the Inland Sea and Missisquoi Bay sit behind causeways: the main lake's seiches stop at the island chain. The first two stratify and run their own internal seiches — modeled here with the same physics, though no buoy exists in either bay to check them against. Drag to orbit · wheel to zoom. ← back to the poster
bed exaggerated 110× · surface departures 10,000× · thermocline 110×
thermocline beyond the buoys is modeled (Hunkins et al. 1998 style) · bay thermoclines modeled, unvalidated
green field = cyanobacteria index from VT tracker reports — illustration, not a health advisory
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This page’s data was last written on 12 September 2026.