UC Davis TERC lecture on Mountain Lakes and Climate Change

Submitted by paula on Sat, 03/30/2019 - 6:58pm
Event Date: 
April 25, 2019 - 5:30pm

Between 12,000 and 14,000 small lakes are scattered throughout the Sierra Nevada. How is climate change affecting these remote mountain lakes?

Recent research provides insight into the climate sensitivity of these water bodies and the influence of warming temperatures and a shrinking spring snowpack. Join Dr. Adrianne Smits on Thursday, April 25 as she discusses how lakes across the Sierra Nevada are expected to change and what that change could mean for the surrounding ecosystems.

Dr. Adrianne Smits is a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow at UC Davis. She is an aquatic ecosystem ecologist whose work includes understanding mountain lake ecology under a changing climate (California Mountain Lake Observatory Network) and investigating the flow of energy and nutrients through stream and lake food webs.

Admission is $5 in advance and $10 at the door. Refreshments and a no-host bar will be available from 5:30 - 6 p.m. The lecture will begin at 6 p.m. at 291 Country Club Drive in Incline Village (between Tahoe Boulevard/SR 28 and Lakeshore Blvd.) on the campus of Sierra Nevada College.

For more information call 775-881-7566, or visit http://tahoe.ucdavis.edu/events/.