Primarily an opportunity for question and answer, this forum will include a very brief refresher on the primary reasons for archiving specimens followed by review of procedures.
This is a tour designed for the Blue Chip Interphase Group. The group will gather in the lobby of the Bryant Bannister Tree-Ring Building at 3:50pm to begin the one hour tour at 4pm. For more information please contact Pamela Pelletier via pamela@email.arizona.edu or 520.621.0984. Docents and Haury Scholars are welcome to contact Pamela Pelletier in advance if they would like to shadow this tour to learn more about the lab.
Dr. Wahl will discuss his most recent published work in western North America paleoclimatology, done in conjunction with Drs. Henry Diaz, Jason Smerdon, and Caspar Ammann
Tree-ring reconstructions from ring widths of upland trees are a longstanding source of information on variability of streamflow. Such trees sense variations in net precipitation in runoff-producing parts of a watershed. While riparian trees are much less commonly applied in streamflow reconstruction, large multi-aged populations of riparian trees offer the opportunity to improve reconstructions of streamflow through alternative standardization methods and a direct pathway of response of growth to changes in stream level.
Pamela Pelletier will be hosting this event at the LTRR. This activity is reserved for a specific group and designed to introduce high school students to dendrochronology.
