High Sierra Topix

I've got a backlog of trip reports to post (!), but in the meantime, check out this article:

https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/how-climat ... ada-lakes/

The first two paragraphs:

"Scientists at the University of California, Davis, are taking the temperature — and other measurements — of lakes of all sizes and shapes throughout the mountains of California to see how climate change is affecting them and what, perhaps, can be done about it.

A study published this month in the journal Limnology and Oceanography Letters shows that, despite rapidly warming air temperatures, spring snowpack is the biggest predictor of summer warming in small Sierra Nevada lakes."

Thanks notis for sharing this article! Also, this:

https://www.sierrasun.com/news/environm ... world-now/

And there's another challenge: money.

"The funny thing about these projects is funding is very irregular for them, and so we're left often times to cobble together funding from multiple sources," he said. "Sometimes there are gap years where we struggle to keep the record alive."

So interesting...thanks for sharing that other article.

How fun would it be to do this work? (Money challenges aside--that instability is NOT fun.)