Reports and Products
Lake Tahoe Clarity and Water Quality
Lake Tahoe Pelagic Monitoring Program Review | July 2024
Microplastics Memorandum | October 2024
Statistical analyses of historic clarity measurements and select variables | October 2024
Lake Tahoe Clarity Analysis and Modeling Phase I: Biogeochemical and Ecological Modeling | August 2022
Seasonal and Long-Term Clarity Trend Assessment of Lake Tahoe, California–Nevada | July 2022
Lake Tahoe Clarity and Associated Conditions | June 2022
Lake Tahoe Clarity Analysis and Modeling: Empirical Dynamic Modeling | June 2022
Datasets (Excel files, cvs format)
Tahoe limnological data and drivers
Summary Science Report on Lake Tahoe Clarity and Associated Conditions | August 2021
Report on the Status of the Lake Clarity Model | December 2020
Lake Tahoe Nearshore
Nearshore Science Final Review | January 2025
Invasive Species
Lake Tahoe Watershed
Tahoe Regional Planning Agency Thresholds
Monitoring Outdoor Recreational Quality and Public Access | June 2024
Part 1: State of Literature & Best Practices
Part 2: Program Recommendations
Escaping the Heat: Climate Change and Visitation to the Lake Tahoe Basin | July 2022
Water Quality Threshold Standards – Applying the System Structure | June 2020
Vehicle Miles Traveled Review | March 2019
Stream Environmental Zone Standard Review | September 2018
Recreation Associated Impacts in the Lake Tahoe Basin | May 2018
Guidance on Technical Clean Up of Existing Threshold Standards | April 2018
Natural Resource Evaluation Systems: Assessment of Best Practices | October 2017
Comments on the 2016 TRPA Threshold Evaluation Process | February 2017
Follow up Comments | March 2017
Science Planning
Integrated Science to Action: Planning for Change | October 2024
Upland Ecosystem Science to Action Plan: Integrated Research to Inform Greater Resilience in the Lake Tahoe Basin Uplands | October 2020
Appendix | July 2020
Upland Ecosystem Science to Action Brief
Science to Action Planning, Project Briefing and Science Vision for Lake Tahoe | August 2019
Partner Reports and Products
Lake Tahoe Clarity and Water Quality
Zooplankton Ecology of Lake Tahoe: Composition, Migration, and Influence on Plankton Particle Sizes Final Report | January 2025
Characteristics, Composition, and Relative Sources of Very Fine Particles Affecting Water Clarity in Lake Tahoe (Aquatic Particles Project) | December 2024
Impacts of Smoke-Ash from the 2021 Wildfires to the Ecology of Lake Tahoe | November 2022
Lake Tahoe Watershed
Tahoe Environmental Observatory Network – Draft Final Report | July 2025
Distribution and Apparent Decline of Aspen in the Broader Lake Tahoe Area | October 2024
Aspen Maps for the Broader Lake Tahoe Area (produced using machine learning and Landsat spectral reflectance)