P010 · Monitoring program
Lake Tahoe microplastics monitoring program
Active
2018–Current
Water
Sediment
Stormwater
Freshwater
Evidence record
- Institutions
- UC Davis TERC / Desert Research Institute
- Research focus
- Presence / Occurrence; Source Identification; Transport / Pathways; Monitoring Methods
- Available evidence
- Active monitoring; Existing baseline data
- Location
- Lake Tahoe and surrounding watershed
- Location type
- Lake and watershed monitoring network
- Location confidence
- High
- Data availability
- Ongoing monitoring; some reports/publications available
- Watershed / region
- Lake Tahoe Basin
- Verification date
- 2026-09-11
- Notes
- Sampling includes lake water at multiple depths, deep-water sediments, and watershed inputs including streams, snow and storm drains.