Western Nevada College Professor of Geosciences, Dr. Winnie Kortemeier, has determined that Lake Tahoe is 2.3 million years old, making it North America’s oldest freshwater, permanent lake and the third-oldest in the world.
Join renowned UC Davis limnologist and Tahoe Research Group founder Dr. Charles Goldman for an entertaining public presentation on the stories and history of five decades of research at Lake Tahoe and the challenges ahead.
Become a Lake Tahoe expert during the 4-day UC Davis Summer Sessions at Tahoe and learn all about Lake Tahoe and the latest research from the UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center.
Join the UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center to Circumnavigate Lake Tahoe for Science. This kayaking event, TERC CIRC 5, will take place over seven days, starting Monday, June 23 and concluding Sunday, June 29.
Want to grow your own fruits and vegetables here in Tahoe? Make sure you learn the tricks, the environmentally-friendly ways, and the science-based methods for gardening at high elevation by attending one of the two community garden days in May and June.
Want to grow your own fruits and vegetables here in Tahoe? Make sure you learn the tricks, the environmentally-friendly ways, and the science-based methods for gardening at high elevation by attending one of the two community garden days in May and June.
American Pika are cute, feisty, softball-sized relatives of rabbits that depend on high elevation boulder fields to live their lives. In many mountains in the Great Basin, Pika are going extinct, likely due to warming temperatures from climate change.
The UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center is pleased to welcome Stephanie Hampton as the new director of TERC and professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy.
Join TERC scientists for a fun, interactive on-the-mountain tour at Alpine in partnership with the US Forest Service. Do you love to ski/snowboard and science? This is a unique opportunity for you!
Trout in the Classroom (TIC) is an educational program designed to teach students about the ecology, biology, and history of trout and other aquatic life.
The one-thousand-foot-thick ice shelves that fringe Antarctica help limit to global sea level rise by pinning back land ice and slowing its export into the Southern Ocean. However, some of these ice shelves are rapidly melting from below due to the encroachment of warm seawater.
