Limnology Content

Losing Winter

Katherine E Kerlin — February 02, 2022 - 9:30am

How small mountain lakes spend their winters is largely unknown to scientists, despite winter representing nearly half the year in such environments. A study by the University of California, Davis, helps demystify what happens above and below the ice.

Removing Tiny Shrimp May Help Climate-Proof Lake Tahoe’s Clarity

Katherine E Kerlin — August 01, 2019 - 4:42pm

Lake Tahoe, with its iconic blue waters straddling the borders of Nevada and California, continues to face a litany of threats related to climate change. But a promising new project to remove tiny, invasive shrimp could be a big step toward climate-proofing its famed lake clarity.

How Climate Change Is Affecting Small Sierra Nevada Lakes

Katherine E Kerlin — December 19, 2018 - 11:45am

Scientists at the University of California, Davis, are taking the temperature — and other measurements — of lakes of all sizes and shapes throughout the mountains of California to see how climate change is affecting them and what, perhaps, can be done about it.

A study published this month in the journal Limnology and Oceanography Letters shows that, despite rapidly warming air temperatures, spring snowpack is the biggest predictor of summer warming in small Sierra Nevada lakes.

Scientists: Lake Tahoe Experienced a Record-Breaking Year in 2015

Katherine E Kerlin — July 28, 2016 - 1:27pm

Lake Tahoe experienced a year like no other in 2015, according to scientists from the �ٺ��Ƶ Tahoe Environmental Research Center in its annual Tahoe: State of the Lake Report, released today.