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Museum Day 2025

Monday, March 17, 2025

The LTRR has been awarded a grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for Experiential training of the next generation of museum professionals through American Southwest cultural heritage collections.

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Dr. Valerie Trouet is holding a sequoia cross section.

NEH grant for curation program

Tuesday, January 21, 2025

The LTRR has been awarded a grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for Experiential training of the next generation of museum professionals through American Southwest cultural heritage collections.

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A huge solar eruption hit the Earth between 664 and 663 BCE

Thursday, December 19, 2024

Irina Panyushkina of the LTRR has led a team elucidating more details of the huge solar eruption that hit the Earth around 664 BCE.

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NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory image of a prominance.

Tree rings reveal a new kind of earthquake threat to the Pacific Northwest

Wednesday, September 27, 2023

New paper by LTRR lead author Bryan Black

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A cross section from a tree that drowned when a forest was carried into Lake Washington as part of a landslide.

Kevin Anchukaitis receives Willi Dansgaard Award

Friday, September 15, 2023

The AGU honors Kevin Anchukaitis with the 2023 Willi Dansgaard Award.

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AGU web page for Willi Dansgaard Award with Kevin Anchukaitis portrait inset

Tree-Ring Day 2023

Friday, March 24, 2023

The LTRR's part of the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences EarthWeek is Tree-Ring Day: lightning talks, the regular Tree-Ring Talk, catered meals, and other activities.

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Tree-Ring Day

Has the Earth been warming or cooling over the past few thousand years?

Thursday, February 23, 2023

LTRR postdoc Ellie Broadman is co-author of an article reviewing the trends in global temperature over the last few thousand years.

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Sediment core tube held in a small boat on a lake.

Music from Tree Rings

Monday, December 19, 2022

The Arizona Daily Star newspaper's front page lead article was on the musical collaborative project featuring Margaret Evans and Kelly Heilman of the LTRR.

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Dr. Charlotte Pearson Receives National Science Foundation MRI Grant for Groundbreaking Mini Carbon Dating System

Tuesday, October 18, 2022

Dr. Charlotte Pearson Receives National Science Foundation MRI Grant for Groundbreaking Mini Carbon Dating System

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Valerie Trouet named Scientific Director of the new Belgian Center for Climate Expertise

Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Valerie Trouet has been named the Scientific Director of the new Belgian Center for Climate Expertise.

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