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Whittell High School student part of Nevada group at Scripps National Spelling Bee
Submitted by paula on Wed, 05/29/2019 - 4:08pm
There are two from the Northern Nevada area who competed in this week's Scripps National Spelling Bee in National Harbor, Maryland.
Morgan Salvador, a 12-year-old 7th grader who attends George Whittell High School in Zephyr Cove was Speller No. 284, while Morgan Bumgardner, Speller 275, is a 13-year-old Dayton Intermediate School student. He is listed as being from Mound House. Both students were, unfortunately, eliminated as they worked their way into the finals.
National focus on South Lake Tahoe's snowpack during Operation Sierra Storm
Submitted by paula on Mon, 01/30/2017 - 2:24pm
The annual television meteorologist's conference, Operation Sierra Storm (OSS), couldn't have happened at a better time to bring the national spotlight to early January's storms fondly nicknamed Snowmageddon and Januburied.
Jim Cantore and Paul Goodloe, leading correspondents at The Weather Channel, both broadcast live from Heavenly Mountain Resort and showcased South Lake Tahoe’s powder-filled ski conditions for two days, eight hours each day during the historic snowfall January 10-13, 2017.
El Nino making snow now, but climate change 'loads dice' for warmer future winters
Submitted by paula on Fri, 01/08/2016 - 9:36pm
he El Niño weather pattern that's fueling a snowy start to 2016 for the Lake Tahoe region is among the strongest on record and likely to continue bringing storms to the region.
But the long-term climate prognosis for the Sierra Nevada and the planet as a whole is more troubling with rising global temperatures threatening to make cold, snowy winters less likely in the future.
That was the message two climate scientists delivered Friday to an audience of meteorologists gathered for a conference at Lake Tahoe.
Climate change experts and meteorologists attending Operation Sierra Storm
Submitted by paula on Wed, 12/30/2015 - 9:13pm
Event Date:
January 8, 2016 - 8:00am
South Lake Tahoe is host to Operation Sierra Storm each year, a leading national weather conference that brings together those that report the weather with South Lake Tahoe activities and top climate scientists.
The three-day conference runs from January 6-9, 2016 and the public has the opportunity to attend the Friday sessions that feature California State Sen. Pro Tem Kevin de León and Alexander (Sasha) Gershunov, Research Meteorologist for Climate, Atmospheric Science and Physical Oceanography at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Lake Tahoe research provides new insights on global change
Submitted by paula on Tue, 02/24/2015 - 8:10pm
A Scripps Institution of Oceanography-led study on how natural and man-made sources of nitrogen are recycled through the Lake Tahoe ecosystem provides new information on how global change may affect the iconic blue lake.
“High-elevation lakes, such as Lake Tahoe, are sentinels of climate change,” said Lihini Aluwihare, associate professor of geosciences at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. “Small changes in the lake’s chemistry can have big impacts on the entire ecosystem.”
South Tahoe High grad to present cost-effective way to detect Lake Tahoe hazards
Submitted by paula on Sat, 01/03/2015 - 11:24pm
Event Date:
January 8, 2015 - 5:30pm
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.
Lake Tahoe science pioneer to participate in national lecture series
Submitted by Editor on Thu, 01/17/2013 - 3:12pm
EarthScope, the world’s largest earth-science program, has selected University of Nevada, Reno geophysicist and director of the Nevada Seismological Laboratory Graham Kent to lecture at several universities this year as part of their annual speaker series.
Kent will lecture in the National Science Foundation-funded EarthScope Speaker Series about underwater paleoseismology techniques he pioneered at Lake Tahoe with colleague Neal Driscoll of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
USGS to discuss potential for 'ARkStorms' at Lake Tahoe
Submitted by Editor on Sat, 01/12/2013 - 10:02amEvent Date:
January 31, 2013 - 6:00pm
Flooding in all quarters. Decades worth of erosion in a few weeks. Devastating landslides and avalanches. Hurricane force winds and tree falls. Road, power, and business outages. And then the real impacts to Lake Tahoe and ecosystems begin.
Scientists: Tsunami and earthquakes overdue in Lake Tahoe
Submitted by Editor on Wed, 12/05/2012 - 9:42pm
A tsunami-producing fault in Lake Tahoe is overdue for another earthquake, scientists said here yesterday (Dec. 4) at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union.
The West Tahoe Fault is capable of producing a magnitude-7.3 earthquake and tsunamis up to 30 feet (10 meters) high in the clear blue lake, where million-dollar homes line the shore, researchers said.
Researchers at Fallen Leaf confirm ancient 'megadroughts' around Lake Tahoe and Sierra Nevada
Submitted by Editor on Thu, 05/24/2012 - 3:28pm
The erratic year-to-year swings in precipitation totals in the Lake Tahoe, Carson City and Reno areas conjures up the word “drought” every couple of years, and this year is no exception. The Nevada State Climate Office at the University of Nevada, Reno, in conjunction with the Nevada Drought Response Committee, announced Thursday a Stage 1 drought (moderate) for six counties and a Stage 2 drought (severe) for 11 counties.
Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada are no strangers to drought, the most famous being the Medieval megadrought lasting from 800 to 1250 A.D. when annual precipitation was less than 60 percent of normal. The Reno-Tahoe region is now about 65 percent of annual normal precipitation for the year, which doesn’t seem like much, but imagine if this were the “norm” each and every year for the next 200 years.
