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The one-week program will be held July 7 - 11, 2008 at the Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences (TCES) located on the campus of Sierra Nevada College in Incline Village, Nevada.
The TCES is a world-class center for research and education in the UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center, a center within the John Muir Institute on the Environment. The Center supports programs that help protect the quality and future of environmentally-threatened lakes and watersheds. The historic partnership is a collaboration between Sierra Nevada College, the University of California at Davis, the Desert Research Institute, and the University of Nevada, Reno.
Participants will lodge at the Sierra Nevada College.
Dining will be at the Sierra Nevada College Patterson Hall dining facility. Participants will meet for breakfast, lunch and dinner at the campus dining hall, which provides a wide selection of meals and snacks daily, located near the TCES.
Wednesday, July 9th, participants will gather for a networking dinner with speaker at The Chateau.
The closest airport to Incline Village, Nevada is Reno/Tahoe International Airport in Reno, Nevada. Airlines flying into Reno include:
- Alaska Airlines
- Allegiant Air
- Aloha
- American
- Continental
- Delta
- Delta Connection
- ExpressJet
- Horizon Air
- Southwest
- United
- Ted
- US Airways
Reno is approximately 40 minute drive to Incline Village.
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Sacramento International Airport is a two-hour drive (Sacramento to Tahoe) and is the next closest large airport.
Lake Tahoe
- Lake Tahoe straddles California's eastern and Nevada's western stateline and is located in the Sierra Nevada mountain range.
- It is the largest alpine lake in North America.
- It is 12 miles wide, 22 miles long and has 72 miles of shoreline.
- Lake Tahoe is the second deepest lake in the U.S. The average depth is 989 feet, with a deepest point of 1,645 feet. The lake contains 39 trillion gallons of water.
- Lake Tahoe's surface elevation is 6,223 feet above sea level.
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