The view from the top...

 

Field Ecology!

 

Field Supplies

 

Coring Red Fir

 

 

 

Dendroecology Summer Session

Field Trip May 2006

Mt Graham

 

 


 

During the 2006 summer pre-session course in dendroecology we journeyed up the slopes of Mt Graham to get first hand experience in the field and collection aspects of the study of tree rings.

 

Enjoying the Arizona sun...

 

Chainsaws!

Taking Cross-sections

 

Removing slabs

 


After collecting samples in the field, we head into the lab...

 

 

 

Skeleton plotting...

 

More skeleton plotting and crossdating...

 

Examining the wood under dissecting microscopes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Skeleton plots...

 

Cataloging tree-ring cores...

 

The largest collection of dendrochronological wood samples in the world...

 

 

Crossdating...

 

Sanding the specimens...

 

Searching for micro-rings!