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
- November 11, 2009: World Water Issues Film Festival - Forum and Panel Discussion
- December 2, 2009: Lecture on Cancer Prevention with Dr. Linda Ferris and Dr. Eric Rost
- December 9, 2009: Assembling California and Western Nevada: Point Reyes to Lake Tahoe, with Dr. Eldridge Moores, UC Davis Geology Department
Archived Monthly Lectures
- 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