Events Archive

Archived Monthly Lecture Series and Events

Lectures Available Online on UCTV

We have most of the recent lectures recorded and links are provided below, other recorded presentations can be found in the past years' archive. Some older lectures before 2017 have also been recorded and are posted online on UCTV: http://seminars.uctv.tv/Host.aspx?hostID=27.

Monthly Lectures and Events from 2026

December 3-6: 12th Tahoe Film Fest
October 8, 2026: How to make fuel from solar energy with Dr. Frank Osterloh
September 24, 2026: Electrifying Transportation: Pathways to a Clean, Resilient Energy Future with Dr. Alan Jenn
August 13, 2026: Beneath the Surface: What Lakes Reveal About a Warming World with Dr. Catherine O'Reilly
July 16, 2026: 2026 State of the Lake Report with Dr. Stephanie Hampton
June 25, 2026: Escaping the Heat: Climate Change and Visitation to the Lake Tahoe Basin with Dr. Susan Handy
June 18, 2026: Sip Happens: The Science and Story of Beer with Dr. Charlie Bamforth
April 22, 2026: High Elevation Gardening Event at the Tahoe City Field Station Open House
May 23, 2026: High Elevation Gardening Event at the Opening Day at the Lake at Heritage Plaza
May 17, 2026: High Elevation Gardening Event at the Fanny Bridge Dedication & Community Block Party
May 5, 2026: Tahoe’s high-altitude helpers: the secret lives of Sierra pollinators with Dr. Will Richardson.
April 30, 2026: Plastic Pollution in the Tahoe Basin with Dr. Monica Arienzo.
April 22, 2026: High Elevation Gardening Event at the Tahoe City Earth Day Clean-up
April 2, 2026: Who Cares: Parenting Lessons from Frogs with Dr. Eva Fischer.
January 22, 2026: DNA Detectives: Using DNA in the Environment to Study Fish and Wildlife with Dr. Andrea Schreier
January 15, 2026: Our Energy Future: Community Power & Rural Resilience with Dr. Keith Taylor

Monthly Lectures and Events from 2026

December 4-7, 2025: 11th Tahoe Film Fest
November 20, 2025: What Tiny Lake Organisms Reveal About a Changing Environment: Using Zooplankton to Track Ecosystem Change in Sierra Nevada Lakes with Dr. Celia Symons.
October 23, 2025: What are bees thinking? Cognition in captive and wild bumblebees with Dr. Felicity Muth
August 15, 2025: Fire Risk, Fire Behavior, and Post-Fire Forest Resilience with Dr. Andrew Latimer
July 17, 2025: 2025 Annual State of the Lake Report with Dr. Stephanie Hampton
June 24, 2025: Adventures in Limnology at Lake Tahoe and in the Tropics During a Changing Climate with Dr. Charles R. Goldman
June 6, 2025: High Elevation Gardening Festival at the Tahoe City Field Station
May 31, 2025: High Elevation Gardening Festival at the Tallac Historic Site
May 1, 2025: Silent Peaks: Widespread Extirpation of America Pika Populations in the Northern Sierra with Dr. Chris Smith
April 24, 2025: Freshwater on a Changing Planet with TERC Director Dr. Stephanie Hampton.
March 6, 2025: How the Thawing of Antarctica Affects the Transport of Heat Throughout the Ocean with Dr. Drew Friedrichs.
February 20, 2025: Performance Nutrition for the Everyday Athlete with Dr. Dana Lis.
January 9, 2025: Winter Predictions 2024-2025 with Chris Smallcomb, NOAA.

Monthly Lectures and Events from 2024

December 5-8, 2024: 10th Tahoe Film Fest
November 15, 2024: Why We Remember and How to Remember Better with Dr. Charan Ranganath.
September 12, 2024: Sustainable Oysters (with Tasting!) in Changing Marine Ecosystems with Dr. Tessa Hill and Dr. Gary Fleener
August 15, 2024: Nearshore Algae Update with Dr. Adrianne Smits
August 8, 2024: State of the Lake 2024
May 29, 2024: Options for Feeding Healthy Pets with Dr. Jennifer Larsen
April 24, 2024: Bees in the Tahoe Basin: Pollinator Ecology and Conservation with Rachel Vannette
March 21, 2024: Algae at Lake Tahoe: TERC, Tech, and You with Katie Senft, Samantha Sharp, and Alison Toy
February 9, 2024: Infrastructure Resilience in the Face of Extreme Flooding with Michael Gardner
January 23, 2024: How to Address Climate Change by Talking About It with Katharine Hayhoe

Monthly Lectures and Events from 2023

December 7, 2023: Washoe Storytelling and Watching Science Catch-Up with Herman Fillmore and Helen Fillmore
November 30 - December 10, 2023: 9th Tahoe Film Fest
November 9, 2023: Winter Predictions with Chris Smallcomb
November 9, 2023: Wildfire Impacts on Lakes with Dr. Steve Sadro
August 31, 2023: The High Sierra: A Love Story with Kim Stanley Robinson
August 10, 2023: Deep Waters to Deep Space with Brother Guy Consolmagno, Director of the Vatican Observatory
July 13, 2023: State of the Lake Report with Dr. Geoffrey Schladow, TERC Director
June 20, 2023: A Lifetime of Science at Lake Tahoe with TERC Boat Captain of 30+ years Brant Allen
June 10, 2023: High Elevation Gardening Festival at the Tallac Historic Site, South Lake Tahoe
June 3, 2023: High Elevation Gardening Festival at the Slow Food Lake Tahoe Gardens, Truckee
June 2, 2023: High Elevation Gardening Festival at the UC Davis TERC Tahoe City Field Station
June 1, 2023: Improving Mental Health through Chemistry and Neuroscience with Dr. David Olson
May 18, 2023: The Last Ice Area with Dr. Warwick Vincent
April 27, 2023: Managing water during California's wild changes in climate with Dr. Jeffrey Mount
March 24, 2023: Attraction and Relationships with Dr. Paul Eastwick
February 9, 2023: Why is a third of food wasted worldwide? with Dr. Ned Spang

Monthly Lectures and Events from 2022

December 15, 2022: Fir Mortality: Canaries of Mixed-Conifer Forests with Beverly Bulaon
December 14, 2022: Changing Snowpack, Hazards, and Backcountry Safety with Dr. Andrew Schwartz
December 14, 2022: Winter Predictions with Chris Smallcomb from the National Weather Service
December 1-4, 2022: Tahoe Film Festival
November 10, 2022: Plant Ecology and Global Change: Science Motivated by Conservation with Dr. David Ackerly
October 27, 2022: The Ultimate Fight Against Zebra Mussels? With Dr. Philippe-David Blanchette
September 22, 2022: Early Childhood Development explore more info at www.MindintheMaking.org
August 18, 2022: Local Wines Meet International Cheese with Dr. Moshe Rosenberg
August 11, 2022: Microclimate Diversity and Lesser-Known Varietals of Wine with Justin Boeger of Boeger Winery
August 4, 2022: Beer's Impact on Civilization with Dr. Glen Fox
July 28, 2022: 2022 Tahoe State of the Lake Report with Dr. Geoff Schladow
July 21, 2022: The Buzz About Pollinators: Pollination, Honey, and Mead with Dr. Amina Harris
June 2, 2022: Nature Tells Its Story: The Climate Archive of Caves with Dr. Isabel Montanez
May 26, 2022: Wind It Up! A Postural Approach to Performance and Durability with Gabe Metzger
April 14, 2022: Living Snow Project with Dr. Robin Kodner, Dr. Alison Murray, and Meghan Collins
March 31, 2022: Notes from underground: The hydrological underpinnings of watershed response to drought across California with Dr. David Dralle
February 17, 2022: Environmental, Social, and Economic Resilience with Heidi Hill Drum and Bill Mueller
20, 2022: Severe Wildfire Threats to our Soil and Water Resources with Dr. Randy Dahlgren.

Monthly Lectures and Events from 2021

December 9, 2021: Winter Predictions from the National Weather Service with Chris Smallcomb
December 2-5, 2021: Tahoe Film Festival
August 12, 2021: 2021 State of the Lake Report with Dr. Geoff Schladow
August 5, 2021: Science Speakeasy
July 28, 2021: Bently Heritage Cocktails: The taste of summer 2021! With Lucas Huff.
July 21, 2021: Beer... The reason we're alive! With Dr. Charlie Bamforth
July 15, 2021: Experimental Versus Traditional Wines with Dr. Andrew Waterhouse
May 13, 2021: Rethinking Fire with Dr. Beth Rose Middleton Manning from the UC Davis Department of Native American Studies and honorable Ron W. Goode, the Tribal Chairman of the North Fork Mono Tribe.
April 22, 2021: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy with Dr. Kathryn Olmsted.
March 25, 2021: Calculating the Cost of Climate Change with Dr. Frances C. Moore.
March 18, 2021: Climate Change Conspiracies where There's Smoke There are Conspiracy Theorists with Dr. Hannah Tierney, Mark Colyvan, and Tim Smartt.
February 18, 2021: Shrimply Blue: Restoring Lake Tahoe’s Clarity One Dog at a Time with Yuan Cheng and Roger de Lusignan. For more information, visit https://shrimplyblue.org/, find a project overview here, or contact [email protected].
February 11, 2021: Supporting Youth in Challenging Times with Peter Mayfield and Dana Adams.
January 7, 2021: UC Davis Cannabis and Hemp Research Center with Dr. Li Tian and Dr. Cameron Carter.

Monthly Lectures and Events from 2020

December 10, 2020: Local Renewable Energy Transition Planning & Climate Resilience with Dr. Gerlad Braun
November 12, 2020: Studying the Fate of Microplastics at Lake Tahoe with Katie Senft and Dr. Jenessa Gjeltema
October 29, 2020: Impacts of Wildfire Smoke on Human Health with Dr. Kent Pinkerton
August 20, 2020: Trawling for Transparency with Brant Allen (FAQ available)
July 30, 2020: Tahoe State of the Lake Report with Dr. Geoff Schladow
July 23, 2020: Sustainable Lake Clarity, by way of Mysis and Dogs with Dr. Geoff Schladow, Harold Schmitz, and Yuan Cheng
June 4, 2020: The Story of Plastic and Local Plastic Issues Forum
June 16, 2020: Garden Social Hour with Alison Toy, David Long, Heather Cullen, Katie Merino, and Heather Cullen
June 2, 2020: Tomatoes, for gardening masochists with David Long
May 26, 2020: Okey Dokey, we'll try Artichokes with David Long
May 19, 2020: Lettuce not forget Kale with Alison Toy
May 12, 2020: Potatoes are Appealing with Melissa Guthrie
May 5, 2020: Organic Gardening 101 with Heather Cullen

Monthly Lectures and Events from 2019

December 5-8, 2019: Tahoe Film Fest
October 22, 2019: Mission Architectures for Exploration of the Moon, Deep Space, and Mars with Dr. Darlene Lim
Oct 21, 2019: Screenagers Screening
October 3, 2019: Photography and Atmospheric Science: A Symbiotic and Historical Relationship
September 25, 2019: TahoeLand Live! at Edgewood Tahoe Resort with Dr. Geoffrey Schladow
August 16, 2019: The Human Element Screening
August 3, 2019: Family Science Day
August 1, 2019: The 2019 State of the Lake Report with Dr. Geoff Schladow
July 25, 2019: Classical Tahoe Presents: An Evening with Janet Napolitano: How Safe Are We?
July 19, 2019: Science Speaks Luncheon
June 20, 2019: The Future of Our Forests: Bridging Ecology and Evolution with Dr. Patricia Maloney
June 13, 17, 18, and 20, 2019: Annual Docent Training
June 10, 2019: High Elevation Garden Workshop: Tomatoes with Dave Long
June 3, 2019: High Elevation Garden Workshop: Kale and Lettuce with Dave Long
May 30, 2019: Wilder than Wild: Fire, Forests, and the Future Screening
May 27, 2019: High Elevation Garden Workshop: Raspberries with Dave Long
May 23, 2019: U.S. Human Spaceflight: Past, Present, and Future with Dr. Stephen Robinson
May 20, 2019: High Elevation Garden Workshop: Potatoes with Melissa Guthrie
May 16, 2019: Beautiful Beer with Dr. Charlie Bamforth
April 25, 2019: Mountain Lakes and Climate Change with Dr. Adrianne Smits
April 2-5, 2019: South Lake Tahoe Science Expo
March 18-22, 2019: North Lake Tahoe Science Expo
March 5, 2019: Trout in the Classroom Teacher's training session recording
February 14 - March 15, 2019: A Novel Intersection of Science and Art, Exhibitions Delivers Celebration of Place with and Environmental Angle
February 7, 2019: Building Resilience in Youth with Dr. Mark Servis, Dr. Kathleen Tebb, and Peter Mayfield (Recorded Lecture)
February 1, 2019: Science of Cocktails