News and Reports

Lake Tahoe Bathymetry in the News:

The view from below:Tahoe's 'virtual library' offers dramatic images of the lake's bottom.
By Tahoe World news, released September 3, 1998.

Revealing Tahoe's underworld.
By North Lake Tahoe Bonanza news Friday, released August 28, 1998.

Point of Beginning - Nov 1998.

San Jose Mercury - Oct 13, 1998.

Associated Press - The Argus - Sept 11, 1998.

Sacramento Bee - Aug 30, 1998.

Reports and Papers

Note: Water Resources Investigations Report 00-4001 and the GSA Bulletin are available in PDF format, which is easily printable. Click on the links to download the files. You will need Acrobat Reader to read the files. If you do not have Acrobat Reader, click here to download Adobe Acrobat Reader.

William Forney, Christian Raumann, Timothy B. Minor, J. LaRue Smith, John Vogel, and Robert Vitales, 2002. Land Use Change and Effects on Water Quality and Ecosystem Health in the Lake Tahoe Basin, Nevada and California: Year-1 Progress.
Click here to view the Open-File Report 02-014 in pdf format.

William Forney, Lora Richards, Kenneth D. Adams, Timothy B. Minor, Timothy G. Rowe, J. LaRue Smith, and Christian G. Raumann, 2001. Land Use Change and Effects on Water Quality and Ecosystem Health in the Lake Tahoe Basin, Nevada and California.
Click here to view the Open-File Report 01-418 in pdf format.

Forney, W.M.,1999. The volumetric runoff and erosion model: A landscape perspective of erosion and land use in the Upper Truckee Watershed, Lake Tahoe, CA. Unpublished Masters thesis, Duke University.
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Gardner, J.V., Mayer, L.A. and Hughes Clarke, J.E., 2000. Morphology and processes in Lake Tahoe (California-Nevada). Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 112, no.5, pp. 736-746.
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Rowe, Tim and Allander, Kip, 2000. Surface and ground-water characteristics in the Upper Truckee River and Trout Creek Watersheds, South Lake Tahoe, California and Nevada, July-December 1996. U.S.Geological Survey Water Resources Investigations Report 00-4001.
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Schweickert, R.A., Lahren, M.M., Smith, K., Karlin, R., 1999, Preliminary fault map of the Lake Tahoe Basin, California and Nevada: Seismological Research Letters, v70,no. 3, May/June 1999, p. 306-312.