Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research

Other information sources

The Tree-Ring FAQ
(edited by Robert Argent and Rob Wilson) is the frequently asked questions list of the International Tree Ring Data Bank Forum, and is the most useful collection of background information on dendrochronology available on-line.
International Tree Ring Data Bank
is the most useful single collection of tree ring data in the world, providing chronologies and raw measurements from many different countries (available for downloading) and a searchable index into the site information database.
The RING Foundation in The Netherlands
is interested in dendrochronology in Europe, and in particular the applications for archaeological dating.
Bristlecone Pine home page
A collection of Web pages by an artist, Leonard Miller, centered around bristlecone pines (particularly in California), and also including a good general summary of dendrochronology.
The Laboratory of Wood anatomy and Dendrochronology Lund University, Sweden
has a particular interest in applying dendrochronology to study arctic driftwood, as well as being involved with basic chronology construction, archaeological dating and dendroclimatology.
The Sheffield Dendrochronology Laboratory at the Research School of Archaeology and Archaeological Science of the University of Sheffield
concentrates on tree-ring samples from archaeological contexts (excavations and building timbers), but not only uses these for routine dating applications, but also for research into past patterns of woodland management and trade.
BFH (the German federal forestry and wood research unit)
partly includes the important group of dendrochronologists working at the University of Hamburg.
ITRDBFOR
is an e-mail distribution list for dendrochronology: to subscribe send a message to LISTSERV@listserv.Arizona.EDU containing nothing but the text SUBSCRIBE ITRDBFOR followed by your first and last names, e.g.

SUBSCRIBE ITRDBFOR Andrew Douglass

(the subject of the message does not matter).

CAMBIUM
is a similar e-mail list for people interested in the cambium of trees and shrubs: to subscribe send a message to LISTSERV@listserv.Arizona.EDU containing nothing but the text SUBSCRIBE CAMBIUM followed by your first and last names, e.g.

SUBSCRIBE CAMBIUM Andrew Douglass

(the subject of the message does not matter).

The Cliff Ecology Research Group at the University of Guelph
has been doing interesting work with millennial-scale chronologies from trees growing on cliffs.
The Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia
is actively involved in dendrochronology, and is an important center for research on global climate change.
The Forestry and Wood directory of DAINet
contains many entries that could be of interest to dendrochonologists (partly in German).
Sylva W3 at the University of Laval
has an excellent summary of general forestry and forest ecology resources (partly in French).
The WWW virtual library: Forestry
contains an extensive directory of references to sources of forestry information in all parts of the world.
Ilana Stern's sci.geo.meteorology FAQ
is a very useful resource for anyone interested in dendroclimatology and looking for archives of climate data.
The National Climatic Data Center
has many downloadable global and regional climatic data sets.
The NCAR Data Archive
contains a few directly downloadable data sets, and brief descriptions of many more.
The National Geophysical Data Center
includes not only the International Tree-Ring databank, but many other sources of palaeoenvironmental information.

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