Tree-Ring Talks, Spring 1999

If no other directions appear here, the talks take place at 12:00 Noon in the LTRR classroom: Room 104G, West Stadium (Bldg. 58).

Friday, January 15, 1999

``Lake-Level Fluctuations During the Past Two Centuries and Macro- and Microclimatic Conditions in Northern Québec" Yves Bégin (Professor - Dept. of Geography, Université Laval, Sainte-Foy, Québec, Canada)

Thursday, January 28, 1999

"Tree-Ring Cell Chronology and Reconstruction of Climate Regime in the East Siberian Subarctic from A.D. 1642" -- Irina Panyushkina (Institute of Forestry, Krasnoyarsk, Russia)

Monday, February 1, 1999

"Climatic Reconstruction Using Tree Rings in Korea" WonKyu Park (Dept. of Forest Products, College of Agriculture, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Korea)

Wednesday, March 3, 1999

"Mapping Historical Fire Regimes in Western Montana and the Interior Columbia River Basin" -- Penelope Morgan (Dept. of Forest Resources, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho)

Monday, March 22, 1999

"Construction and Revision of the Holocene and Late Glacial Oak and Pine Chronologies from Southern Germany" Michael Friedrich (Institute of Botany, Hohenheim University, Stuttgart, Germany)

Tuesday, March 23, 1999

"Dendroecology in the Eastern Italian Alps: A Tool to Understanding Timberline Forest Dynamics" -- Carlo Urbinati and Marco Carrer(Dpt. Territorio e Sistema AgroForestali, University of Padova, Italy)

Wednesday, March 24, 1999

"Carbon, Curtains, and Cottonwoods: Developing a Research Agenda for Biosphere 2" -- Lisa J. Graumlich (LTRR)

Wednesday, March 31, 1999

"Measuring and Interpreting Nitrogen in Tree Rings" -- Paul R. Sheppard (LTRR)

Tuesday, April 6, 1999- 3:00 to 4:00 pm - PAS, Room 224

"Evidence from Natural Archives for a Warming Earth" -- Malcolm Hughes (Jointly sponsored by Tree-Ring Lab. and Institute for the Study of Planet Earth, as a contribution to the first Arizona Earth Sciences Week)

Wednesday, April 7, 1999

"South Africa's Archaeological Heritage: Old and New Perspectives" -- Edmund C. February.

(South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa)South Africa's archaeological heritage was regarded in quite a different light by the pre-1994 authorities. Within the country, significant debate has taken place recently. Ed February takes a critical look at both the exhibits at the South African Museum and the attitudes of authorities to archaeology pre- and post-1994.

Wednesday, April 14, 1999

"Mycorrhizae of Trees: A Retrospective" -- Edward Hacskaylo (Tucson, Arizona)

Wednesday, April 21, 1999

"Vegetation Dynamics of Forests and Fields and Effects of Sea Level Rise on Coastal Wetlands of Southern New England" William A. Niering (Res. Dir. of Connecticut College Arboretum, Dir. of Ctr. for Conservation Biology & Environmental Studies, Botany Dept., Connecticut College, Connecticut)

Wednesday, April 28, 1999

"Field Dendroarchaeology: Results of the Dendroarchaeology Colloquium" -- Ronald H. Towner and the Tree-Ring Dating in Archaeology Colloquium(LTRR)

Wednesday, May 5, 1999

"Comparative Dendroclimatic Analysis of Conifers Growing Along the Siberian Transect (Russia)" -- Alexander Kirdyanov (Institute of Forest SB RAS, Krasnoyarsk, Russia)

Friday, May 14, 1999

"An Attempt to do Tree-Ring Skeleton Plotting by Computer" -- Michael Friedrich (Institute of Botany, Hohenheim University, Stuttgart, Germany)

Many thanks are due to Jackie Mather for her help in putting this program together.

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