News tagged with tahoe basin
Lake Tahoe Clarity Continues to Hold Steady in 2008
(PhysOrg.com) -- The waters of Lake Tahoe were clear to an average depth of 69.6 feet in 2008, according to UC Davis scientists who have monitored the lake since 1968. That keeps the clarity measurement in the range where ...
Mar 19, 2009 |
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Climate change, algae lessen Lake Tahoe's clarity
(PhysOrg.com) -- Lake Tahoe clarity dropped in 2010, but the rate of decline in clarity over the past decade remains slower compared with previous decades, according to UC Davis scientists who have monitored the lake for ...
Aug 15, 2011 |
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Tahoe analysis adds 'when' and 'how much' to climate-change forecasts
UC Davis scientists today issued the most detailed forecast to date of likely climate-change effects at Lake Tahoe, complete with estimates of when those effects might be seen and how big they might be.
Nov 16, 2010 |
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Scientists find new invasive fresh water clam species in Lake George
(PhysOrg.com) -- The new species (Corbicula fluminea) was located in the Village of Lake George and poses a serious threat to native mussels and the Lake George ecosystem, according to Sandra Nierzwicki-Bauer, direct ...
Aug 30, 2010 |
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Scientists test cutting-edge technology for underwater mapping at Tahoe basin
A borrowed boat, a small mountain lake and the inaugural run of a half-a-million dollar state-of-the-art multi-beam sonar system made history this month with the successful high-definition mapping of the bottom ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 30, 2010 |
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Scientists roll out 'not-welcome' mats to kill Tahoe clams
(PhysOrg.com) -- Lake Tahoe scientists at the University of California, Davis, and the University of Nevada, working with government and conservation organizations, this week began a novel attempt to control a dime-sized ...
Jul 09, 2010 |
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American team of scientists help protect Guatemala's Lake Atitlan
A team of scientists from the University of Nevada, Reno, DRI, Arizona State University and University of California, Davis has returned from a two-week expedition to Guatemala's tropical high-mountain Lake ...
Jun 22, 2010 |
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Tahoe faces new development battle: green vs. green
As snow begins to blanket Lake Tahoe, the region finds itself facing a new kind of development battle: green vs. green.
Dec 03, 2009 |
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Feds review mountain-dwelling pika for threatened-species list
Pikas don't ask much. With brave squeaks, belted out from atop their rock piles, they defend their realm in the talus slopes way up here in the mountains, more than a mile in the sky, far from anyone, anywhere.
Aug 31, 2009 |
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Ancient drought and rapid cooling drastically altered climate
Two abrupt and drastic climate events, 700 years apart and more than 45 centuries ago, are teasing scientists who are now trying to use ancient records to predict future world climate.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 18, 2009 |
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Studies offers new picture of Lake Tahoe's earthquake potential
For more than a decade, scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have been unraveling the history of fault ruptures below the cobalt blue waters of Lake Tahoe one earthquake at a time. ...
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Apr 29, 2009 |
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