Ob River Flood History


Principal Investigator: David Meko
Funding Agency: US Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CRDF Global)

Award Period: 04/25/2018-04/24/2019

The long version of the title is "Ob River Flood History from West Siberia Tree Rings". A main objective of this study is identifying signatures in tree rings for floods along the Ob. A secondary objective is improvement of accuracy of a previous reconstructions of annual flows with information from a West Siberia network of temperature-sensitive trees. Key individuals on the project are Dr. Irina Panyushkina (senior personnel) and Leonid Agafonov (Russian collaborator). Most of the funding is for a 10-day visit of Meko, Panyushkina and a graduate student (Julie Edwards, a student of Kevin Anchukaitis, has volunteered!).


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