Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research

Course information

The Laboratory offers several dendrochronology courses through cooperating academic departments. If a course is listed here under Geosciences ( GEOS) it may well also be offered under Anthropology (ANTH) or Watershed Management (W SM). The information appearing here is provisional, since some courses may be dropped if they attract no students, but additional courses, taught by visiting faculty members, may be added to this list.

1999 Fall semester dendrochronology courses

GEOS 595E/ WSM 595E Dendrochronology Colloquium

Call numbers GEOS 61365

This will be offered each semester, for 1 to 4 credits, with repeats possible up to 9 credits. You set your number of credits by selecting the appropriate number of 1-credit modules. In Spring 1998 the following 1-credit modules will be offered:

Time series analysis for dendrochronology and other environmental and earth science applications I, II, III

(Charles W. Stockton and David M. Meko) (note - I,II and III are a sequence, thus allowed selections are (I) (I,II) (I,II,III), but (II) (III) and (II,III) are not allowed). Further details are available.

Dendroecology

(Thomas W. Swetnam) Further details are available.

Term paper

(any Tree-Ring Lab faculty member)

Journal Club

(Jeffrey S. Dean)

Other courses taught by Laboratoy faculty

GEOS 220 Natural History of the Southwest (Fall 1998)

Are you curious about the landscape that you live in? Are you interested in learning about past and current changes in climate, cultures, and ecosystems here in the Southwest? What do tree rings, pack rats, Anasazi ruins, forest fires, droughts, floods, arroyos, and El Niño have to do with you? If you are curious about these topics and interconnections, consider taking this course!

Credits

3 units.

Class meetings

Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3:30-4:45, Franklin 202.

RSVP number

59719

Status

Experimental for Fall 1998, but possibly a general education Tier-2 course if approved for Fall 1999, enrollment cap at 50 students.

Instructors

Dr. Thomas W. Swetnam, Dr. Julio L. Betancourt, Dr. Jeffrey S. Dean (Swetnam and Dean are Associate Professor and Professor, respectively, in the Tree-Ring Lab; Betancourt is a USGS Project Chief at the Desert Lab, and Adjunct Associate Research Scientist, Geosciences).

For additional information and syllabus see the web page, http://tree.ltrr.arizona.edu/nathistsw/nathist.html, for any further details contact Dr. Swetnam at 621-2112, tswetnam@ltrr.arizona.edu.

This information is derived partly from the 1995 teaching schedule of the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research and partly from the University of Arizona general catalog, which includes entries for all other departments. Information on the interdisciplinary Ph.D. minor in global change is available in greater detail elsewhere. Course registration details that depend on the Student Information System (SIS) may be inaccurate if that system is down.

Laboratory information

University of Arizona schedule of classes