Sunrise light on a grove of tufa towers emerging from the water of Mono Lake with soft green and dusty-red wild grasses in the foreground, Canada geese in the shallow water with reflections of the rocky towers, and desert hills in the distance.

Mono Lake story reaches as far as Abu Dhabi

Sunrise light on a grove of tufa towers emerging from the water of Mono Lake with soft green and dusty-red wild grasses in the foreground, Canada geese in the shallow water with reflections of the rocky towers, and desert hills in the distance.

This post was written by Julia Runcie, 2011 Mono Lake Intern.

The Mono Lake water story is featured as a central component of the new exhibition, “Water: H2O=Life” at the Qasr Al Hosn Cultural Quarter Hall in Abu Dhabi. The exhibition, which first opened at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, treats the relationship between water and life through a variety of interactive displays. Mono Lake’s inclusion in the exhibition speaks to the global significance of the environmental successes that have been achieved here. Read more in The National‘s article.