South Tahoe High grad to present cost-effective way to detect Lake Tahoe hazards

1980 South Tahoe High graduate Dr. Graham Kent from the UNR Seismological Laboratory will give a presentation on ALERT Tahoe in Incline Village on Thursday, January 8.

ALERT Tahoe is a new, one-of-a-kind, fire camera and multi-hazard tracking system that includes smoke investigation, prescribed fire oversight, wildfire tracking, Earthquake Early Warning, and monitoring of extreme weather events. A prototype of the fire camera system is functioning, scoring early successes during the summer of 2014.

Dr. Kent will present on the existing and planned camera system.

After graduating STHS, Kent studied Geophysics and graduated Valedictorian of the Class of 1985 at San Diego State University. He received his Ph.D. in 1992 from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, CA.

Dr. Graham M. Kent is the Director of the Nevada Seismological Laboratory and Professor in the Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno. Previously, Graham was a Research Geophysicist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and had been Director of the Visualization Center at Scripps from 2001-2009.

Happy Hour starts at 5:30 p.m. and the lecture starts at 6 p.m. at the Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences, 291 Country Club Drive in Incline Village on the campus of Sierra Nevada College.

Go on line for reservations. The fee for the lecture is $5.