UC Davis researcher Charles Goldman to discuss Lake Tahoe, climate change

Submitted by Editor on Tue, 05/28/2013 - 3:04pm

Lake Tahoe, climate change and how global warming affects the lake will be the subject of a discussion by renowned limnologist Dr. Charles Goldman Friday, 6 p.m. June 7 at the Sierra Nevada College campus in Incline Village.

UC Davis research at Lake Tahoe began with Dr. Goldman. In 1959, he formed the Tahoe Research Group and began regularly monitoring Lake Tahoe. Goldman successfully combined effective research and social action with his pioneering studies of lake eutrophication (the dense growth of algae and other organisms).

More than 40 years of extensive long-term investigation of the Lake Tahoe ecosystem carved the way for environmental awareness, including major policy decisions regarding water quality in the Tahoe Basin. These changed include the exportation of sewage and solid waste, strict control on building, installation of major erosion control projects, protection of wetlands, establishment of water quality thresholds, control of nonpoint source pollution, controls on dredging, and many others.

Dr. Charles Goldman retired from UC Davis where he had been a professor since 1958. He developed the first courses in limnology (the study of fresh waters) and oceanography at UC Davis.

Dr. Goldman’s presentation follows the afternoon UC Davis Volunteer Docent Training session. The environmental center is located at Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences, 291 Country Club Drive, Incline Village. For additional details about the presentation or docent program, contact Heather Segale at 775-881-7562 or hmsegale@ucdavis.edu, or visit http://terc.ucdavis.edu/calendar/.