The Tahoe Institute for Global Sustainability through the University of Nevada, Reno’s Lake Tahoe Campus is gaining momentum after its launch in early June. … In its Tahoe focused research, a number of institute scientists are furthering insight on clarity, wildfire effects on landscape, stream ecology and its connection to the lake’s nearshore areas. The institute has also developed the Tahoe Environmental Observatory Network, which offers an information and interactive story-map explaining intricacies of the basins’ watershed, streams and lake. It will eventually offer real time and publicly available data from sensors placed around Lake Tahoe.