University of California, Davis (Tahoe Environmental Research Center, University of California, Davis)

The UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center will develop "Understanding Change: Augmented Reality Experience" exhibits to improve visitor awareness and understanding of changes driven by increasing temperatures that occur in mountain ecosystems. The initial augmented reality experiences will focus on changes to weather patterns such as rising air temperature, decreasing snowpack, and extreme events such as droughts and storms, as well as how warmer water temperatures affects lakes and aquatic environments. The project will reach the center's 15,000 annual visitors, including more than 5,000 students in grades 3-12. While focused on Lake Tahoe, these topics are applicable to lakes and mountain ecosystems around the world.