This semester's Tree-Ring Talks will be posted here as they are scheduled.
date |
speaker |
position |
talk title |
Feb 7
noon |
Alejandro Casteller |
Instituto Argentino de Nivologia and Swiss Federal Institute |
Historical reconstruction of snow avalanches in the Patagonian Andes and the Swiss Alps using dendrochronology. |
Fri Mar 23
noon
Biosciences East, room 100 |
Lonnie G. Thompson |
Professor, Department of Geological Sciences &
Senior Research Scientist, Byrd Polar Research Center,
The Ohio State University |
Abrupt Climate Change: Past, Present and Future. |
Thur Apr 5
noon |
E.A. Vaganov |
Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, Russia |
Genetic and environmental control of tree ring formation. |
Apr 11
noon |
Nate Swenson |
EEB, University of Arizona |
Ecological and evolutionary determinants of a key plant functional trait: wood density and its community-wide variation across latitude and elevation. |
Apr 18
noon |
Chris Roos |
Anthropology, University of Arizona |
Alluvial geoarchaeology of fire history and culturally modified environments
along the Eastern Mogollon Rim, Arizona. |
Tues
May 1
12:30-1:30 PM |
David Bowman |
School of Plant Science, University of Tasmania |
The ecological logic of indigenous landscape burning |
May 2
noon |
Howard J. Arnott |
Department of Biology, University of Texas at Arlington |
Frost Rings in the Timbers of Mesa Verde Cliff Houses. |