Creating sustainable solutions across the globe

Utilizing the University of Nevada, Reno’s Lake Tahoe campus as a living laboratory, the Tahoe Institute for Global Sustainability develops public engagement and research programs that address environmental and societal challenges. The Institute fosters interdisciplinary collaboration, trains early career professionals and delivers innovative, actionable solutions through partnerships and critical discourse.

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Research initiatives at the Tahoe Institute

Tahoe Research Institute faculty are researching the most pressing issues at Lake Tahoe to help inform future decisions at the lake.
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Institute faculty Sudeep Chandra digs through a bucket of sand to find invasive species in Lake Tahoe.
Global Engagement Faculty at the Institute have done research in dozens of locations, from Mongolia, to Antarctica, to Chile, and continue to work toward finding solutions to global sustainability issues.
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Two people hold a giant fish in the Mekong River in Cambodia.
Tahoe Environmental Observatory Network The Tahoe Environmental Observatory Network (TEON) monitors water quality along the lakeshore, while also tracking changes across the Tahoe Basin.
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Researchers on a boat taking water samples in the middle of Lake Tahoe.

Recent news from the Institute

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Ask the Professor: How does elevation influence climate change impacts in mountains?

Natural Resources & Environmental Science Professor Adrian Harpold dives into mountain ecohydrology of the Sierra Nevada Mountains

Two tomato plants.

Warmer temperatures giving you that gardening itch?

University of Nevada, Reno experts offer research-based answers for Nevada’s gardening challenges

A group of scientists from the workshops stand on a boat out on Lake Tahoe.

University of Nevada, Reno convenes global experts to safeguard the world’s largest trout

Leading scientists, conservationists, tribal representatives and students from around the world addressed urgent conservation challenges facing the largest trout species on Earth

The goal is real impact.

Tackling hard-hitting, complex projects with teams of experts using proven data-driven methods and working with private industry, the Tahoe Institute for Global Sustainability engineers win-win solutions for the environment.

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