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  • Established by the pioneer of dendrochronology.

    A.E. Douglass, originator of the science of tree-ring dating, founded the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research in 1937.
    https://ltrr.arizona.edu/about/history

  • Housed in a custom facility.

    A building constructed in 2013 provides lab and office space, augmented by a building recently renovated as a wood sample archive.
    https://ltrr.arizona.edu/building

  • Pursuing interdisciplinary research.

    Dendrochronology helps reconstruct environmental change, and unravel processes in ecosystems and human societies; researchers in many parts of the world collaborate with the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research.
    https://ltrr.arizona.edu/research

  • Educating students and the public.

    The Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research teaches undergraduate and graduate courses; its outreach program also reaches thousands of children and adults in the community.
    https://ltrr.arizona.edu/courses

  • Established by the pioneer of dendrochronology.

  • Housed in a custom facility.

  • Pursuing interdisciplinary research.

  • Educating students and the public.

News

Akrotiri, Thera: the excavated remains of the Minoan town destroyed by the eruption (photo: Gretchen Gibbs).

Re-dating the most important marker event for the ancient Aegean.

Thursday, August 16, 2018

Charlotte Pearson of the LTRR is lead author on a paper revising the radiocarbon dating of the Thera eruption.

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Trouet with award information in the background

University award for the LTRR's Valerie Trouet

Monday, April 2, 2018

The University of Arizona has conferred a Distinguished Scholar Award on Tree-Ring Lab faculty member Valerie Trouet.

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The group of researchers in Guatemala, ready for fieldwork.

A documentary film shows the work of LTRR researchers in Guatemala

Friday, February 9, 2018

A short documentary film is the first of several describing the work of LTRR researchers in Guatemala.

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LTRR researchers link extreme European weather to jet stream changes

Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Valerie Trouet and Matt Meko from the LTRR, with Flurin Babst, reconstruct the jet stream.

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Thursday, August 23

  • 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
    FREE Docent-led Tour

Thursday, September 13

  • 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM
    Tour for Sonoran Desert Museum docents

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  • 9:00 AM to 10:15 AM
    Applied Time Series Analysis, GEOS 585A

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