Join leading researchers, artists, and scholars at the University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe for The Tahoe Series. This collection of events, performances, lectures, and seminars welcomes the community to the University's Wayne L. Prim Campus in Incline Village to be enlightened and inspired.
The Tahoe Series: Faculty Showcase features professors across disciplines presenting as experts on new topics in their fields of study.
May 8, 2025 from 6-7:30 p.m. Doors open at 5:30 p.m.
Join us for an evening with Dr. Baker Perry where he will share insights and operational challenges from new weather station networks from Mount Everest to the Andres.
These mountain regions serve as critical water towers that sustain over one billion people downstream, but can also be the source of catastrophic flooding. Stunning photos and video clips from National Geographic will complement Dr. Perry’s storytelling.
Dr. Baker Perry is a Professor of Climatology and the Nevada State Climatologist in the Department of Geography at the University of Nevada, Reno and a National Geographic Explorer. Dr. Perry works at the highest elevations of the planet to understand climate change impacts on the critical water towers that sustain hundreds of millions of people downstream. In collaboration with The National Geographic Society, the Government of Nepal and Tribhuvan University, he co-led the expeditions that installed the highest altitude weather station network in the world on the south side of Mount Everest in Nepal. Dr. Perry also has worked extensively at the highest reaches of the Andes Mountains in Bolivia, Chile and Peru, where he and his teams have investigated climate-glacier interactions and associated impacts on water resources.
Since receiving his Ph.D. in 2006, Dr. Perry has published 47 research papers that have been cited over 1,000 times. He is a member of the American Meteorological Society, American Geophysical Union, and the American Association of Geographers.
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