Science Speaks Series: Managing water during California’s wild changes in climate
Granlibakken, Tahoe City 725 Granlibakken Rd., Tahoe City, CAJeffrey Mount is a senior fellow at the PPIC Water Policy Center. He is an emeritus professor of earth and planetary sciences and founding director of the Center for Watershed Sciences at the University of California, Davis. Over the past ten years California has experienced wild swings in climate, with two record warm/dry three year periods
Science Speaks Series: The Last Ice Area, with Dr. Warwick Vincent
Granlibakken, Tahoe City 725 Granlibakken Rd., Tahoe City, CARadio Canada International (December 2, 2020) - In a recent commentary published in the journal Science, they report that the northern edge of the Canadian Arctic archipelago and Greenland is where the world’s oldest and thickest ice is found. They also say it will be the last refuge for ice-dependent species. The commentary was titled, “Witnessing
A Lifetime of Science at Lake Tahoe
Granlibakken, Tahoe City 725 Granlibakken Rd., Tahoe City, CAWith Brant Allen, UC Davis TERC Field Station Manager/Boat Captain/Lead Research Diver, TERC will present a discussion on the history of Brant Allen's work in Lake Tahoe. Allen, long time researcher at Lake Tahoe, will present photos and reminiscences from his three decades of studying Lake Tahoe’s clarity, productivity, and food web changes. Recently, Tahoe’s
2023 State of the Lake Report
Granlibakken, Tahoe City 725 Granlibakken Rd., Tahoe City, CAThe 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
The High Sierra: A Love Story
Granlibakken, Tahoe City 725 Granlibakken Rd., Tahoe City, CAKim 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, and a featured