SNARL Lectures Begin May 12

April 26, 2005

 Lake Tahoe is just up the road and to the north, but in Mammoth—particularly a snowbound Mammoth—sometimes it feels as if Tahoe’s a million miles away.
    That changes on May 12, when the director of the Tahoe Research Group visits the Green Church for a lecture on “Forty Years of Research and Conservation at Lake Tahoe.”   
    Dr. Charles Goldman, a Distinguished Professor of Limnology at the University of California, Davis will speak as the second Annual Reserve Lecture in Conservation and Ecology, this year sponsored by the Valentine Reserve Fund. His lecture is in cooperation with the Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Lab (SNARL).
    According to Dan Dawson, director of SNARL, Dr. Goldman's single most important and sustained contribution is his four decades of research on Lake Tahoe. 
    “He has pursued long-term ecological research simultaneously at Lake Tahoe and Castle Lake, California since 1958,” Dawson wrote in an email distributed today to Mammoth news outlets.
    “He has successfully combined effective research and social action with his pioneering studies on the lakes. These have been directly applied to engineering solutions, social needs and legal decisions. 
    “This work has recently included the development of artificial wetlands and research on alternatives to conventional road salt for de-icing highways. This relationship of basic science to political change has been of particular importance to the Lake Tahoe basin.”
    Dr. Goldman has been a professor at UC Davis for 44 years, published four books and well over 400 scientific articles and produced four documentary films which are in worldwide distribution. He has served on many national and international committees and is frequently sought for consultation and research missions to foreign countries on major environmental problems.
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EDITOR’S NOTE: For more information on the SNARL seminar series contact Leslie Dawson at 935-4356 or ldawson@msi.ucsb.edu

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