Monthly Lecture Series
The UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center (TERC) Monthly Lecture Series provides a forum for community members to hear from scientific experts in topics pertinent to the region. Speakers include authorities on various environmental issues, scientific research and related regional topics of interest.
Upcoming Monthly Lectures
- June 14, 2012: Tahoe's Avian Summer Visitors with Kirk Hardie, Tahoe Institute for Natural Science
- June 16, 2012: Birdwatching with Kirk Hardie, Tahoe Institute for Natural Science at the Tahoe City Field Station
- July 10, 2012: Climate Reality Project with Dr. Peter Joseph at Lake Tahoe Community College, South Lake Tahoe
- July 11, 2012: Climate Reality Project with Dr. Peter Joseph
- July 18, 2012: Be Bear Aware Community Forum
- July 26, 2012: Sugar-associated Health Risk Factors, with Dr. Kimber Stanhope, UC Davis Department of Nutrition
- August 22, 2012: USGS Lecture with Gary Scoppettone, USGS
- October 3, 2012: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Trout Recovery Project, with Stephanie Byers
- November 1, 2012: Meteorites with Dr. Lin, UC Davis Geology Department
Lectures Available Online on UCTV
We are now recording some of the lectures and posting them online on UCTV. Click here to view available lectures: http://seminars.uctv.tv/Host.aspx?hostID=27.
Archived Monthly Lectures
- March 22, 2012: Changing Seas: Climate Change with Dr. Howie Spero, UC Davis
- February 23, 2012: Two Billion Cars with Dan Sperling, Director UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies and Tom Turrentine, Director UC Davis Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Research Center (video available online)
- January 26, 2012: Fragrance Chemicals: What's the Stink? (video available online)
- November 8, 2011: 21st Century Skills: Learning for Life in our Times, co-author Bernie Trilling will share what children need to be successful in a rapidly changing world
- October 20, 2011: Harvest Festival Chamber Mixer and Halloween Bats, with Corky Quirk, Northern California Bats
- October 5, 2011: LiDAR Map of Lake Tahoe: Seeing Faults, Landslides and Other Landforms with Lasers, with Graham Kent, UNR (video available online)
- September 15, 2011: Our Melting Polar Regions: Where Life on Earth is Changing, with Warwick Vincent, Aquatic Ecosystem Studies Laboratory at Université Laval
- August 11, 2011: Science of Cheese Lecture, with Moshe Rosenberg, UC Davis
- July 21, 2011: Science of Beer Lecture, with Charles Bamforth, UC Davis
- June 16, 2011: Science of Winemaking and Wine Tasting, with Winemaker Stephen Tebb, Robert Craig Winery
- June 1, 2011: Tahoe Beneath the Surface, with Author Scott Lankford (to be held at Tahoe City Field Station)
- May 31, 2011: John Steinbeck at Tahoe: Hatching His First Novel, with Author Scott Lankford (to be held at Tahoe City Field Station)
- May 20, 2011: Movie Premiere and North Lake Tahoe Chamber Mixer, includes showings of the new 3-D movie Lake Tahoe in Depth (15 minutes)
- May 12, 2011: How We Ride Bicycles, with Mont Hubbard, UC Davis Sports Biomechanics Lab
- May 11, 2011: Cycling Biomechanics: Injury Prevention, Comfort and Performance, with Judd Van Sickle, Jr., UC Davis Sports Medicine
- April 19, 2011: Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival
- April 13, 2011: Using Light-based Technologies to Save Lives, with Dr. Marco Molinaro, UC Davis Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology
- March 1, 2011: A Scientist’s View of Changes at the Bottom of Lake Tahoe, with Annie Caires, University of Nevada Reno
- January 11, 2011: Performance Nutrition for Winter Sports, with Dana Lis, Registered Dietitian
- December 8, 2010: Fying Under the Big Ice: Robotic Submarines Under Antarctic Ice, with Alexander Forrest, UC Davis TERC
- October 20, 2010: Cloud Seeding to Enhance Snowfall, with Dr. Arlen Huggins, Desert Research Institute
- October 14, 2010: State of the Lake Presentation for Volunteer Docents, with Dr. Geoff Schladow and Dr. Marion Wittmann, UC Davis TERC
- September 9, 2010: Microbe Planet: Life on Earth, Extreme Environments and Astrobiology, with Dr. Alison Murray, Desert Research Institute
- August 31, 2010: Alternative Energy Home, with Ben Solomon
- August 5, 2010: Butterflies and Butterfly Gardening in the Tahoe Basin, with Dr. Art Shapiro
- June 17, 2010: The Changing Range of Light: Climate Change in the Sierra with Bob Coats, Geoff Schladow and Elizabeth Carmel
- May 13, 2010: Lake Tahoe’s Future: Underwater, a Disturbing New World, with Phil Caterino
- May 4, 2010: The Forest Guards
- April 20, 2010: Wild and Scenic Film Festival
- March 31, 2010: Tapped, the movie examines the role of the bottled water industry and its' effects on our health, climate change, pollution, and our reliance on oil
- March 4, 2010: Bike Tour Eurasia, presented by Allison Ansley and Chad Wiles
- February 23, 2010: Earthquake and Tsunami Hazard of the Tahoe Basin, presented by Dr. Graham Kent, UNR
- January 28, 2010: Tahoe Wildlife Forum
- December 9, 2009: Assembling California and Western Nevada: Point Reyes to Lake Tahoe, with Dr. Eldridge Moores, UC Davis Geology Department
- December 2, 2009: Truth, Lies & Mysteries about Environmental Causes of Cancer with Dr. Eric Rost
- November 11, 2009: World Water Issues Film Festival - Forum and Panel Discussion
- October 28, 2009: World Water Issues Film Festival - Poisoned Waters
- October 14, 2009: World Water Issues Film Festival - Blue Gold: World Water Wars
- September 30, 2009: World Water Issues Film Festival - Flow
- August 5, 2009: Freshwater Megafish: The Unseen Monsters That Share Our Lakes and Rivers, with Brant Allen, UC Davis TERC
- June 16, 2009: Water Quality in California: A Case for Creating New National Parks in The Sierra Nevada Mountains, with Dr. Bob Derlet, UC Davis School of Medicine
- May 14, 2009: Osprey in the Sierra Nevada, with Lisa Fields, California State Parks
- April 23, 2009: Undersea Voyager Project at Lake Tahoe, with Scott Cassell (click here for additional details)
- February 18, 2009: Global Warming, Land Use and Transportation Modeling with Dr. Bob Johnston, UC Davis
- January 29, 2009: Drugs, Plastics and Your Brain with Arthur Seelig, UC Davis
- December 3, 2008: Asian Clam Invasion Update, with Marion Wittmann, Ph.D.
- October 23, 2008: Backyard Native Plants: Friend or Foe for Fire Safe Landscaping? with Lesley Higgins
- September 24, 2008: Conscious Consumerism with Nikki Florio, Tahoe Regional Environmental Education
- August 7, 2008: Half-Century of Research to Protect Lake Tahoe: An Ongoing Adventure, with Dr. Charles Goldman (UC Davis)
- July 17, 2008: Making Sense of the Climate Change Puzzle, with Dr. Terrence R. Nathan (UC Davis)
- June 25, 2008: Is the Lake Really Getting Bluer, or is the Sky Simply Falling?: A Discussion on Lake Clarity and Climate Change with Dr. Geoff Schladow (UC Davis)
- May 22, 2008: “Blue” Jays & “Cheeseburger” Birds: Common Birds of the Sierra Nevada, with Sarah Pitzer (UC Davis)
- April 30, 2008: An Exploration of Human Evolution, Health and Physical Fitness, with Frank Forencich (Exuberant Animal)
- April 17, 2008: Troubled Water of the Sierra, with Joan Clayburgh of the Sierra Nevada Alliance
- March 20, 2008: Science Partnerships in the Art of Landscape Architecture with Les Smith (Design Workshop)
- February 19, 2008: Fishes of the Eastern Sierras: Saving the Natives, with Peter Moyle, Ph.D.
- January 17, 2008: Water in the West: What's on Tap?, with Jeff Mount, Ph.D.
- Dec. 5, 2007: The Collapse of California’s Water System: From Disasters to Decisions, with Jay Lund, Ph.D.
- Nov. 13, 2007: Fire Behavior, with Scott Stephens, Ph.D.
- Oct. 29, 2007: Fire Science, with Dr. Wally Miller, Jeff Brown and Norb Szczurek
- Sept. 25, 2007: Global Sustainability –The Dilemma of Scale, with Deb Niemeier, Ph.D., UC Davis
- Aug. 22, 2007: Wildflowers of the Tahoe Sierra, with Laird Blackwell, Ph.D., Sierra Nevada College
- June 6, 2007: Warming Trends in the Tahoe Basin – Causes and Impacts, with Bob Coats, Ph.D., Hydroikos Inc.
- May 25, 2007: The Pale Blue Dot (Earth From Space), with Dr. Paul Guttman, Space Science for Schools
- April 10, 2007: Non-native Species Introductions at Lake Tahoe, with Sudeep Chandra, Ph.D., University of Nevada, Reno
- March 20, 2007: Air Quality at Lake Tahoe, with Tom Cahill, Ph.D. , UC Davis
- Feb. 28, 2007: River Shark – Conserving the World's Largest Trout, with Researcher Brant Allen, UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center
- Jan. 18, 2007: Radon Risks in the Tahoe Region, with Jeff Miner, Radon at Tahoe
- Dec. 12, 2006: Going for Platinum: Green Features of the Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences, with Architect Todd Lankenau, Lundahl & Associates Architects
- Dec. 8, 2006: Mongolian Nomads and Climate Change, with Clyde Goulden, Ph.D., Academy of Natural Sciences
- Nov. 28, 2006: Can We Keep Lake Tahoe Blue?, with Geoffrey Schladow, Ph.D., UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center