Public invited to Soroptimists meeting on Tahoe clarity with Dr. Sudeep Chandra

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Dr. Sudeep Chandra, University of Nevada Associate Professor of Limnology in the Biology Department, will be speaking at the next Soroptimist International of Tahoe Sierra club meeting on Thursday, May 20.

Dr. Chandra spoke during the recent Tahoe Fund Talks on the subject of the clarity of Lake Tahoe and what is going on beneath the surface, and on the land, that affects the famous blue of the lake.

The theme of his talk at Soroptimists is "Life beneath Tahoe Waters - The Good, Bad, and the new discoveries."

Dr. Chandra serves as Director of the University’s Global Water Center: Solutions for Sustainability. He also serves as the Director for the Castle Lake Environmental Research Station, which started in 1959; it is now a long-term ecological research site and home to the longest-running mountain lake science collection in North and South America. Researchers and students at the Station answer important science questions about environmental changes in mountain lakes and might their watersheds. In 2012-13, Sudeep served the larger U S national science community by serving as one of the Directors for the Ecosystem Sciences Program at the U. S. National Science Foundation.

His interest in international research began in 1997 when he participated in the Tahoe-Baikal Institute’s annual environmental exchange program, which brought him to Lake Baikal, Russia.

The meeting will be held at 7:30 a.m. Thursday via Zoom. To join, the link is https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82412887230?pwd=N1RhZURrbVZsMFBBYlBVT3E5SjN0UT09.