At a technology convention at Moscone center in San Francisco last week, a private company from Alameda, CA, announced plans to send an unmanned submersible under the Antarctic ice pack to gather samples and collect specimens to aid scientists in their quest for answers to climatic variables some call global warming.
In preparation for this event, the company announced that Lake Tahoe will be the site of tests on the function and operation of the vehicle at depths found in the lake basin. The plan includes investigation of the McKinney Bay collapse that geologists call the most significant event in the basin for the last 55,000 years. This collapse caused a seismic wave,or tsunami, that rippled across the surface, impacting the Nevada shoreline several times as the counter waves rippled west.
This series of tests will occur some time in March 2011, off Tahoma/Homewood. It appears that this submersible will be a boon to data collection for the Lake research center at Incline.
Full details are in today's Chronicle, or sfgate.com/tahoe
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