The Tahoe State of the Lake report informs nonscientists about important factors affecting the health of Lake Tahoe and provides the scientific underpinnings for restoration and management decisions within the Lake Tahoe Basin. The 2023 report summarizes data collected during 2022 in the context of the long-term record of research at Lake Tahoe. UC Davis researchers

At Lake Tahoe, most people have heard the word “Secchi” in reference to the Secchi disk, a 10-inch white disk used to measure lake clarity. The Secchi disk remains the standard design used in both marine and deep-freshwater investigations because it is an inexpensive and straightforward method of measuring water clarity. However, there is much more

The first annual Full STEAM Ahead event is a free bilingual (Spanish + English) community event held for children and families at Tahoe Backyard in Kings Beach. This event merges science and art with interactive stations designed to inspire creativity in the young and old and bring attention to the beauty of science. For those

Kim Stanley Robinson is an American science fiction writer. He is the author of about twenty books, including the internationally bestselling Mars trilogy, and more recently Red Moon, New York 2140, and The Ministry for the Future. He was part of the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers’ Program in 1995 and 2016,

SOLD OUT! Registration available for the livestream zoom webinar. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center (TERC), and University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe present internationally renowned climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe to the Tahoe Science Center for an exclusive North Shore presentation on Tuesday, January 23, 2024 at 10:30 a.m. Tickets will be available on a

Flooding annually causes thousands of fatalities and billions of dollars in damage globally. Due to climate change, the frequency and magnitude of extreme flooding events is expected to increase. How do flow conditions, local geology, and infrastructure design interact to make certain flooding events more destructive? By building models that can capture this interaction, we

To celebrate the summer beauty of Lake Tahoe and raise awareness of threats to the lake, we welcome everyone to join us for the fourth annual Circumnavigation of Lake Tahoe for Science, a seven-day kayaking journey dubbed TERC CIRC. The event, which combines citizen science with fundraising for the Center, will run from June 17 to

Join us for a Science Speaks Lecture from award-winning author Judith Schwartz. Her presentation will highlight the way understanding how landscapes “work” will help us address the many challenges we face. While discussions of climate focus on CO2, Judith looks at how the planet manages heat points to water: specifically, the phase changes of water