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Scientists to talk about climate change threats, opportunities at Carson City lecture

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Repeats every 2 days until Fri Jun 28 2019 .
June 27, 2019 - 5:30pm

Eminent scientists Dr. Charles Goldman, Dr. Sudeep Chandra and other panelists will be featured guests at Western Nevada College in Carson City where they will talk about local impacts of droughts, floods, fires and warming temperatures on the regional economy and future generations.

There will be an opportunity to ask questions during the open discussion portion of the program. The event is free and refreshments will be provided. For more information contact cclcarsoncity@gmail.com.

The event will be Thursday, June 27, 6 to 8 pm. Doors open at 5:30. Room 103, Reynolds Center for Technology, Western Nevada College, north end of the campus via Combs Canyon Road.

UC Davis research at Lake Tahoe began with Dr. Charles Goldman. In 1959, Dr. Goldman 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 caused by pollution from fertilizers and sediment. More than 40 years of extensive, internationally-renowned investigations by Goldman provided clear evidence for the onset of eutrophication in Lake Tahoe.

These findings have served as the underlying basis for nearly all major policy decisions regarding water quality in the Tahoe Basin, including 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, and controls on dredging.

Dr. Sudeep Chandra is an Assistant Professor of Limnology and Conservation Ecology at the University of Nevada Reno. He graduated in 2003 with a Ph.D. in ecology from the University of California Davis.

As a postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin Madison he evaluated the restoration potential of salmonids and impacts of nonnative species in large river and lake ecosystems. He has classical training in limnology evaluating the impact of human disturbance (e.g. climate change, invasive species, nutrient loading, and land use change) on freshwater ecosystems. Sudeep’s laboratory primarily focuses on how to restore and conserve aquatic ecosystems with a goal of providing scientific studies develop public policy from scientifically based investigations.

They take an ecosystem — based approach and evaluate how invasive species alter water clarity, affect native species, and may prevent the restoration potential of native fishes such as Lahontan cutthroat trout. His graduate students have recently completed studies that predict how climate change and the modification of the near shore environment at Lake Tahoe contribute to the spread of invasive species (largemouth bass, blue gill), the expansion of nonnative crayfish and their impacts to lake ecosystems, the potential for new invaders (New Zealand mud snail, quagga mussel) to colonize the lake, and how quagga mussel is impacting the fishery and bottom ecology of Lake Mead.

Finally, Sudeep has been a strong advocate of cooperative international research and conservation. His interest in international research began in 1997 when he participated in the Tahoe Baikal Institute environmental exchange program where he co-investigated studies evaluating the eutrophication and mercury levels of Barguzin Bay, Lake Baikal (Russia).

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