Summer Environmental Exchange Projects
2008

Tahoe Projects

Tahoe

• Monitoring Post-Angora Fire Fuel Dynamics
  (California Tahoe Conservancy) Project Leaders: Daylin Wade and Scott Cecchi, California Tahoe Conservancy; Susie Kocher, University of California Cooperative Extension
  Participants: Rosibel Roman, Suvdaa Namsrai, Evgenia Filimonova, Igor Dets
  

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• A Comparative Study of Benthic Invertebrates in Lake Tahoe
  Project Leaders: Sarah Pitzer and Brant Allen, UC Davis Tahoe Environmetnal Research Center; Sudeep Chandra and Annie Caires, University of Nevada, Reno; Michelle Fergus, Tahoe-Baikal Institute
  Participants: Blythe Marshman, Daba Chimitov, and Vasiliy Pavlichenko
  

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• Grazing and Water Quality: Fecal Coliform and E. Coli Contamination in the Eastern Sierra
  Project Leaders: Staff of the Lahontan Region Water Quality Control Board
  Participants: Jocelyn Gray, Kevin Brown, Igor Moroldoev
  

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• White Pine Restoration in the Tahoe Basin
  (Sugar Pine Foundation) Project Leader: Maria Mircheva
  Participants: Lisa Evans, Pavithra Kathanadhi, Mason Thomas, Timerlan Alymbaev
  

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• Development and Demonstration of a Field Method for Assesing the Algal Productivity of Lake Tahoe Tributaries
  (University of the Pacific) Project Leader: Prof. Gary Litton
  Participants: Savannah Kestral, Anna Filipushkova, Odsuren Batdelger
  

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  Project Leaders: Staff of the Lahontan Region Water Quality Control Board
  Participants: Jocelyn Gray, Kevin Brown, Igor Moroldoev
  

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Baikal

• Social Reflection of Tourism Development and Anthropogenic Loading in Special Economic Zone (SEZ)
  

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• Investigation of the Anthropogenic impacts on the soils and the levels of soil trasnformation within the territory of the Special Economic Zone
  

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• Botanical Survey of Endangered Plants of Lake Baikal
  

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