Tom & Pat Manley (Geology) have received a grant from the Lintilhac Foundation for a project titled High-Resolution Bottom Mapping of Lake Champlain. This grant provides funding to begin a long term effort to update the 2005 bottom bathymetric map of Lake Champlain using multibeam technology which Middlebury acquired with a 2011 grant from the National Science Foundation. When completed, this new bottom map will provide a significant increase in the resolution of the lake bottom that is important to the recreation, research and management communities.