Gifts to the Tahoe Environmental Research Center (TERC) – Science Education Centers supports the STEM education facilities and programs that TERC has pioneered at Lake Tahoe. The funds help subsidize school trips, allow TERC to continue to provide a high caliber monthly lecture series for the public and they keep exhibit technology current. Special events through the year include Science Expo and the annual Tahoe Federal Summit. TERC’s science programs are assisted by AmeriCorps members, and gifts to this fund help pay for this program.

Every year the Tahoe Environmental Research Center (TERC) produces the State of the Lake Report. This highly anticipated synthesis of the long-term data trends observed throughout the lake, together with highlights of recent research is used by the public, by school children and by decision makers to quickly understand the changing nature of Lake Tahoe. Your gift will help support the hundreds of hours that researchers, staff, and students devote to the production of the report annually.

TERC, together with scientific collaborators, is completing a book on the science of Lake Tahoe, titled “Ecological Resilience, Climate Change and Environmental Management in the Tahoe Basin.”  Each of fifteen chapters, written by experts in the field, will include analysis of how scientific information has been used in the formulation of management and policy.  The book, to be published by the University of Nevada Press, is intended for a general audience. Funds contributed will be used to help defer the production and publishing costs. 

Gifts to this fund will support community engagement in the removal of Mysis shrimp to improve clarity, ecosystem health, and build public awareness.