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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Lake Tahoe"”.
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Socially Vulnerable Populations Experiences with Wildfire Preparation Programs at Lake Tahoe
… impacted by wildfires each year. Lake Tahoe has experienced several large-scale wildfires in recent years, with the 2021 Caldor Fire having impacted communities significantly. This study seeks to identify how Lake Tahoe wildfire agencies and organizations can adapt their programs …
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The contribution of consensus building workshops to regional planning in Lake Tahoe
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1986.
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A process for defining landscape-specific design guidelines for the shoreland of Lake Tahoe
The Lake Tahoe shoreland is a landscape of uncommon beauty. Its beauty, however, is at risk. The shoreland suffers the penalty of popularity – large numbers of individuals are attracted to build there in large part to take advantage of the natural beauty of the landscape. This thesis describes a …
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Estimating Sediment Losses Generated from Highway Cut and Fill Slopes in the Lake Tahoe Basin
Lake Tahoe's famed water clarity has gradually declined over the last 50 years, partially as a result of fine sediment particle (FSP, < 16 micrometers in diameter) contributions from urban stormwater. Of these urban sources, highway cut and fill slopes often generate large amounts of sediment due …
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Evaluating Late Pleistocene and Holocene Rupture, Seismic Hazards and Ground Motion in the Lake Tahoe Basin
… is a reevaluation of active faulting across the Tahoe basin a combination of airborne LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) imagery, high-resolution seismic CHIRP profiles, multibeam bathymetric mapping, and field mapping. The combined lateral and vertical resolution has allowed a straight forward …
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City of South Lake Tahoe Subdivision Ordinance: An Opportunity for Smart Growth, Sustainability, and Application Streamlining
The City of South Lake Tahoe currently does not have an adopted subdivision ordinance. This has caused confusion about the approval process and regulatory requirements as well as delays in application processing. This Professional Project will explore the opportunity for the City to adopt a …
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Slip rate of the West Tahoe Fault and the age of glacial deposits near Lake Tahoe, California
The West Tahoe Fault is the 45 km long, primary range-bounding fault of the Sierra Nevada at the latitude of Lake Tahoe, California. It is a N-NW striking, east dipping normal fault that has a pronounced terrestrial Holocene scarp extending from near Meyers, CA to Emerald Bay, where it continues …
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Evaluation on an on-site stormwater treatment device for sediment flux mitigation in the Lake Tahoe basin
… are readily 5 adsorbed onto particles. In the Lake Tahoe basin, sediment is also significant because of its direct contribution to clarity attenuation. The most prudent control measure for mitigating sediment flux in the Lake Tahoe basin is infiltration, which captures runoff volume, allowing …
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Forest Mortality in Lake Tahoe Basin from 1985-2010: Influences of Forest Type, Stand Density, Topography and Climate
… and environmental gradients and mortality in the Lake Tahoe Basin in the central Sierra Nevada. In coniferous forests of the western U.S. and Europe, increased stand density resulting from forest management and land use practices is widely hypothesized to increase forest-wide mortality levels …
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A contextual classification approach for forest land cover mapping using high spatial resolution multispectral satellite imagery – a case study in Lake Tahoe, California
Maps of classified surface features are a key output from remote sensing. Conventional methods of pixel-based classification label each pixel independently by considering only a pixel’s spectral properties. While these purely spectral-based techniques may be applicable to many medium and …
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Planning for the Future in the Face of Climate Change Uncertainty: Three Econometric Techniques Applied to the Challenges Facing Energy, Water, and Recreation Demand
… temperature on visitor recreation choices around Lake Tahoe. It is then shown that under climate scenarios the demand for beach and water access at Lake Tahoe will greatly increase, which suggests that lake managers begin to plan regulations and build infrastructure to account for this demand …
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The Lasting Effects of Prescribed Fire and Harvesting on Forest Floor and Soil Nutrients in the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains
… second study site is located within the North Lake Tahoe area and also includes a prescribed fire following a CTL harvesting system in conjunction with an on-site slash chipping. At both study sites, data was collected before, immediately after, and eight to nine years following the prescribed …
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Identification and isolation of microsatellite loci from the Trematode Echinostoma Trivolvis for use in interspecific and intraspecific variation studies
… including: Point Reyes National Seashore, Lake Tahoe, and the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition, parasite samples were obtained from Manitoba, Canada. Several microsatellites were identified and 29 PCR primers sets were designed, six of which were capable of amplifying consistently. …
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Colloidal interactions of thorium
… colloidal distribution study was done in spiked Lake Tahoe and Mono Lake samples. Plutonium was studied as an example for other radionuclides. Based on these studies, both thorium and plutonium were associated mostly with particles smaller than 0.45{dollar}\mu{dollar}m. Humic acid and organic …
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Second home real estate market : economic analysis of residential pricing behavior near Heavenly Ski Resort, CA
… home market near Heavenly Ski Resort in South Lake Tahoe, CA to understand historical pricing behaviors and to forecast future prices using an econometric model derived from economic, demographic, and climate data. In order to do this study, we gathered historical residential sales data from …
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Time Scales and Processes of Shoreline Formation in Pluvial Lakes of the Great Basin, Western USA
… historical beach deposits formed in Walker Lake, Winnemucca Lake, and Lake Tahoe to characterize the processes that lead to the construction of beach ridges along lacustrine shorelines and compares the volume of individual shoreline features to the lengths of time under which they formed. …
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A Methodology for Planning Road Best Management Practices Combining WEPP: Road Erosion Modeling and Simulated Annealing Optimization
… methodology was tested on a watershed in the Lake Tahoe Basin. WEPP: Road input data was gathered through road surveys. Modeling results predicted relatively little sediment leaving the forest buffer, as a result of numerous well-maintained BMPs and the dry climate found in the watershed. A …
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A Methodology for Planning Road Best Management Practices Combining WEPP: Road Erosion Modeling and Simulated Annealing Optimization
… methodology was tested on a watershed in the Lake Tahoe Basin. WEPP: Road input data was gathered through road surveys. Modeling results predicted relatively little sediment leaving the forest buffer, as a result of numerous well-maintained BMPs and the dry climate found in the watershed. A …
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