Bannister 110

PCC Class Visit

This is a group tour and activity session reserved for PCC students.

A Tree-Ring Smorgasbord

A traditional Swedish smörgåsbord contains many dishes, where you usually sample a little of each. In this talk, I will serve a tree-ring based smorgasbord, based on my career as a tree-ring scientist over the last twenty years or so. I will guide you through various environments and research projects across the world, with some special focus on the long-term research conducted in the central Scandinavian Mountains.

The Influence and Interactions of Humans, Climate, and Fire on Mixed Conifer Forest Dynamics in the Sierra Nevada, USA

Fire is recognized as keystone process in Sierra Nevada dry mixed conifer forests and it has been drastically reduced by decades of fire exclusion. Frequent fire is thought have created a fire-grained mosaic of multi-aged forests that developed as a result of self-organizing processes where burn patterns and forest structure interact to maintain a fine-grained mosaic over time.

Tree-Rings and the Coupled Carbon Cycle Climate System

Forest ecosystems are one of Earth’s primary biomes: they provide a diverse suite of ecosystems goods and services crucial for societal well-being and play a crucial role in our planet’s carbon cycle. However, great uncertainties exist regarding the quantification, dynamics, and driving processes of terrestrial carbon cycling, and thus also the fate of forested regions. Dendrochronological methods are remarkably well suited to investigate forest carbon cycling on long and temporally precise time-scales and at tree-level to continental spatial scales.

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