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Links
to Tree-Ring Sites
Numerous
other tree-ring sites around the world have set up their own Home Pages on
the World Wide Web. You can browse to see other projects that are
currently being conducted by the various institutions. Do you need to find
a tree-ring laboratory nearby to your home town? This is the place to look
- I think you'll be surprised to see the numerous laboratories around the
world that practice tree-ring research. If you or any of your colleagues
know of an institution that should be added to this page, by all means
contact me at the e-mail address at the bottom of this page. If you
establish your own web site, please let me know so I can add your address
to this page.
Major
laboratories at
academic institutions
(arranged alphabetically by institution name)
Major
laboratories at other
institutions
Personal
home pages for individuals
Major
Laboratories at Academic Institutions
University of
Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences
(BOKU)
The
Wood Biology Research Team
Located in
Vienna, Austria, and directed by
Dr. Rupert Wimmer, this research team is conducting extensive research on
air pollution and climatic impacts on tree growth, as well as
investigating several physiological aspects of tree growth. These web pages provide information about
their current and completed research projects, their extensive equipment
(including x-ray densitometry), publications,
staff, and teaching lectures (with PowerPoints).
University
of Arizona
Laboratory
of Tree-Ring Research
Located at The University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona, the LTRR was the
first laboratory of its kind anywhere in the world, first established in
1937 by the father of dendrochronology, A.E. Douglass. Today, it serves as
one of the premier tree-ring research facilities with nearly 90 personnel
investigating nearly all topics in dendrochronology. Their Web Home Page
states, "Current research efforts are directed toward the
quantification of tree-ring parameters, the establishment of new tree-ring
chronologies throughout the world, the use of tree rings in the study of
forest ecosystems, the reconstruction of paleohydrologic and paleoclimatic
variables, and the documentation and development of prehistoric
chronological controls."
LUHNA Project - Southwestern
United States
LUHNA (Land Use History of North America) is an ambitious project in which
the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research (with Dr. Thomas W. Swetnam) is
involved. The goal of LUHNA is to document the history of land use in
various sectors of the United States to provide "clues from the past
about our future environment." Dendroecological analyses will play a
major role in this project, especially for characterizing changes in the
landscape due to wildfires.
News
stories about the LTRR:
Fear
for the aged
Tree
rings unravel influence of monsoons on culture
Plan fires timed to La Nina or El Nino Years, Tree-Ring Lab director urges
Increased
snow is shortening tree-growing season in subarctic Siberia
High
in California's White Mountains grows the oldest living creature ever
found
Arizona
tree alive since 1300s helps explain environment
The
University of Arkansas
Tree-Ring
Laboratory
This
university has had a long and storied tradition in dendrochronology,
headed by Drs. David W. Stahle and Malcolm K. Cleaveland in the Department
of Geography. Recently, a Ph.D. program in Environmental Science was
announced that could well involve tree-ring research. This link also
provides information on the "Ancient Cross Timbers Project"
initiated by this lab, "dedicated to the location and appreciation of
these authentic ancient forest remnants." A wonderfully illustrated
and informative site.
News
stories about the Tree-Ring Laboratory:
Researchers
find evidence of 16th century epic drought over North America
Extreme
droughts played major role in tragedies at Jamestown, "Lost
Colony"
Carleton
University
Palaeoecology
Laboratory
Headed by Dr.
Michael Pisaric, this laboratory focuses on a variety of palaeoecological
techniques to learn about the past environment, including both lake
sediment analysis (fossil pollen, stomata and charcoal) and
dendrochronology. Current projects are being conducted in the Yukon
Territory, northern British Columbia, Northwest Territories and eastern
Ontario. On their web site, you'll find information about their
facilities, projects, personnel, publications, and important links.
They're also interested in recruiting graduate students!
Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany
Tree-Ring
Laboratory
Located in the Center of
Plant Ecology at the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in
Beijing, China, this laboratory is directed by Dr. Qi-bin Zhang, who has a
host of talented technicians and students working and learning in this
impressive laboratory. The web site contains information about current
projects, lab personnel, facilities, publications, and a photo gallery,
and the laboratory also encourages collaboration with other institutes.
The Institute of Botany and the Tree-Ring Laboratory hosted the Seventh
International Conference on Dendrochronology in the summer of 2006.
University of
Colorado
INSTAAR
Dendrochronology Laboratory
Directed by Dr.
Connie Woodhouse, the primary mission of this laboratory is to "conducts
climate-related research using tree rings collected from throughout the
western United States." Located at the University of Colorado since
2000, the lab is well-equipped with a measuring system, several
microscopes, and sanding equipment. Members of the laboratory have
developed over 70 tree-ring chronologies from the central U.S., and their
list of current and completed projects is quite impressive.
TreeFlow:
Tree-ring reconstructions of streamflow for Colorado
Columbia
University
Lamont-Doherty
Earth Observatory Tree-Ring Laboratory
Founded in 1975
by Dr. Gordon Jacoby and Dr. Edward R. Cook, this laboratory is one of the
most active in the tree-ring sciences, publishing some of the most
influential articles in dendrochronology (see under "Classic
References"). Their scientists "...have been involved in a
variety of research applications in tree-ring analysis, including
dendroclimatology, paleoseismology, forestry, resource management,
volcanology and archaeology." Their Home Page provides information
about personnel, research interests, research sponsors, and facilities.
News
stories about the LDEO Tree-Ring Laboratory:
Tree-Ring
Laboratory receives $5.5 million to study climate dynamics
Tree
ring study links warming to drought
Tree rings reveal
'mega-droughts'
Tree rings reveal cycle of global warming
Tree
rings show earth was warm 800 years ago
Mongolian Tree Rings Confirm Global Warming Findings
North
Atlantic sector tree-ring records and SST variability
Cornell University
The
Malcolm and Carolyn Wiener Laboratory for Aegean and Near Eastern
Dendrochronology
Headed and directed by Prof. Peter I. Kuniholm of the Department of
the History of Art and Archaeology at Cornell University, this project has
as its goal "...to build a single master tree-ring chronology for the
Aegean and Near East that will extend from the present to the seventh
millennium B.C. or whenever timbers began to be used in quantity as
construction material in settled communities." These informative Web
pages also provide links to the many reports published by this highly
productive laboratory.
News
stories about this laboratory:
Scientists
hope tree rings will tell Mediterranean's age
University of East Anglia
Climatic
Research Unit
The Climatic Research Unit is located in Norwich,
England. Researchers here, such as Dr. Keith R. Briffa and Dr. Phil Jones,
have conducted some of the most influential tree-ring research yet
published, concentrating especially on long-term (> 2,000 years)
climate reconstructions for northern Eurasia. This link is well worth a
look.
ADVANCE-10K
is a major dendroclimatic project
"... to reconstruct a range of climate variables in different regions
of northern Eurasia to enhance our knowledge of natural climate
variability on a range of timescales within the last 10,000 years."
These well-laid out Web pages set the standard for relaying such vital
information to the dendrochronological community. Well worth visiting.
News
stories about the CRU:
Trees
as indicators of climate change
Warming
Evidence Lacking
Eastern Kentucky University
Cumberland Laboratory of Forest Science
Led by Dr. Neil Pederson, this laboratory conducts tree-ring
research throughout the Southeastern U.S. Projects include research on
drought history in Kentucky, the
dendroecology
of non-leucobalanus trees, and carbon sequestration in Great Smoky
Mountains National Park. These pages introduce you to
the students involved with these projects, the publications of the
laboratory, and Kentucky's old-growth forests. Neil also maintains the
Eastern Oldlist, the database that
contains the maximum ages so far yet discovered for many eastern tree
species.
Eidgenössiche
Technische Hochschule Zürich
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich
Tree-Ring
Laboratory
A component of
the Chair of Forest Ecology at ETH Zürich, headed by Prof.
Dr. Harald Bugmann,
this laboratory is directed by Dr.
Christof Bigler.
Their research focuses on dendroecological studies by using "tree
rings to study forest dynamics such as regeneration, growth and mortality
processes, and we investigate the effects of climate and natural
disturbances on trees, forests and landscapes." The research
conducted in this lab concentrates on mountain environments.
Ethiopian Institute of
Agricultural Research
Ethiopian
Tree-Ring Laboratory
Established in 2005, the ETRL is a collaborative project
supported by the Laboratory of Tree-ring Research (LTRR) of the University
of Arizona and the Department of Geography at the University of Wales
Swansea (UWS), U.K. Directed by Dr.
Zewdu Eshetu, the
ETRL is housed in the Forestry Research Centre (FRC) of the Ethiopian
Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR). The major task of the ETRL is
to study the growth characteristics of various tree species to establish
tree-ring chronologies that will be used to model forest growth and to
reconstruct long-term rainfall variability and drought history in
Ethiopia. These pages contain links to research objectives, research
projects, staff information, and a very interesting photo gallery!
University of Forestry, Bulgaria
Dendrochronology Laboratory
This new laboratory in Bulgaria actually has been publishing in tree-ring
science for a number of years now. Led by Dr. Stefan Mirtchev, Dr.
Ilia Vakarelov, and Dr.
Momchil Panayotov, this laboratory engages in such diverse research as
stressors in Pinus sylvestris plantations, limiting factors at
treeline afforestations, and avalanches along the Northwestern slope of
Todorka Peak, Pirin mountains. These pages contain links to lab members,
publications, research projects, and photo galleries.
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Institut
für Waldwachstum
Institute
for Forest Growth
The Institute for
Forest Growth (IWW) is located in Freiburg i. Br., Germany. Staff of the
IWW study the growth of forest trees in their environment and develop
decision tools for controlling forest growth. The web pages are bilingual,
and provide information about the main topics of research, the teaching
courses and educational program, listing of its staff, events, recent
publications, as well as facilities and services of the institute.
University of Fribourg
Laboratory of Dendrogeomorphology
Located in scenic western Switzerland,
this laboratory specializes in the use of tree-ring data to learn about
past land-surface processes, such as rock fall, activity, debris flows,
erosion rates, and snow avalanches. Dr. Markus Stoffel is the laboratory
coordinator of this impressive lab, which includes many advanced
graduate and undergraduate students. At this site, you can learn about
their projects and publications, and even access a very nice photo
gallery.
The
University of Georgia
Tree-Ring
Laboratory
Unknown to many researchers, the University of
Georgia has had tree-ring facilities for many years now. Recently, the
Department of Geography has developed a well-equipped Tree-Ring Laboratory
under the guidance of Drs. Albert J. Parker and Kathleen C. Parker based
on state-of-the-art image analysis hardware and software. Their research
has concentrated on the dendroecological characteristics of Ocala sand
pine in the panhandle of Florida.
University
of Göttingen
International
Tree-Ring Laboratory: Tree-Ring Research in Temperate, Tropical and Subtropical
Regions
Dr. Martin Worbes is perhaps the world's leading expert on the
dendrochronology of tropical and subtropical tree species, and has created
a set of web pages that describes his laboratory. Here, you'll find links
to current science and research projects, the dendroecological fieldweeks
operated by the Forstbotanisches Institut, collaborative projects, and a
publications list.
University
of Guelph
Cliff Ecology Research Group
Located in Ontario, Canada, and headed by Dr. Doug
Larson, the primary focus of this research group is the ecology of cliff
environments. This research includes, among many other projects, some
fascinating tree-ring work on Atlantic white cedars (Thuja occidentalis)
in excess of 1,500 years of age, which are now recognized as the oldest
living trees in the eastern portions of North America.
University
of Hamburg
Institute
for Wood Biology and Wood Protection
Located at the University of Hamburg,
Germany, the purpose of this research center is to develop "...a
purpose-orientated forestry and an efficient wood-processing
technology." Their Home Page provides links to their various
institutions, including one to the Institute for Wood Biology and Wood
Protection, headed by the eminent dendrochronologist, Prof. Dr. Dieter
Eckstein.
University of Helsinki
Department of Geology
This university has a long history of conducting quality tree-ring
research, especially using subfossil Scots pine mega-fossil samples that
abound in Finland. Professor Matti Eronen along with
post-doctoral fellow Samuli Helama have been been very proficient
publishing many articles in recent years. At their web site, you can
read about their graduate students, the current research of the
department, and access a list of their recent publications.
Indiana State University
Biogeography
and Dendrochronology Laboratory
Dr. Jim Speer is well-known to all of us and he's been at Indiana State
University for several years now. In this time, he's developed a
world-class laboratory devoted to Biogeography and the use of
Dendrochronology to answer questions about the environment. Current
projects include effects of cicadas on tree growth, effects of recent
climate change in central Indiana, and climate response in regional tree
species. This site provides information on past presentations, graduate
students and personnel, publications, and links to valuable sites.
University
of Joensuu
Laboratory
of Dendrochronology
Directed by Pentti Zetterberg, the studies in this laboratory
(established 1985) concern mainly Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.)
but also common (or Norway) spruce (Picea abies Karsten) and
pedunculate oak (Quercus robur L.) in Finland and adjacent areas in
northern Norway and Russian Karelia. The many research topics of this
laboratory are quite impressive (and you can read about these through the
lab's searchable list of research topics), from dating of shipwrecks and
underwater wooden structures, to the dating of medieval castles, to the
development of 7589-year subfossil pine tree-ring chronology for Finnish
Lapland.
University
of Joensuu
Saima
- Centre for Environmental Sciences in Savonlinna
This famous center for research is administered by the
University of Joensuu, Karelian Research Institute, Section of Ecology.
Markus Lindholm, Jouko Meriläinen, Petteri Vanninen, and 2-4 technicians
conduct research in various aspects of dendroecology, and you can access
their extensive list of publications that gives details on their
accomplishments. The link that shows pictures is well worth exploring as
these photographs show how these researchers pluck subfossil pine trees
from the depths of high-latitude lakes to build very long tree-ring
chronologies.
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Université
Joseph Fourier
Centre
d'Ecologie Alpine
This laboratory has been one of the most productive
dendroecological research teams in recent years. Created and assembled by
Dr. Christian Rolland, this web site provides a large amount of
information on their investigators (including Véronique Petitcolas,
Carole Desplanque, Richard Michalet, and Jeanne Florence Schueller), their
publications, the tree species they've analyzed, and the sites they've
examined. They also have macrophotographs available of the species they've
investigated.
Université
Laval
Centre
d'études nordiques
Located in Sainte-Foy, Québec, the CEN is a
multifaceted center for the study of natural history. Concentrating on
arctic and subarctic environments, the center is home to several top
dendrochronologists, such as Louise Filion, Serge Payette, and Yves
Bégin. Their research has covered practically all topics in
dendrochronology, including climate reconstructions and interpretations,
dendrogeomorphology, palaeoecology, and dendroecology.
University
of Ljubljana
Laboratory
of Wood Anatomy and Dendrochronology
Directed under the Chair of Wood Science (Head, Dr. Katarina Cufar),
this laboratory has been conducting significant tree-ring research since
1993. The laboratory conducts investigations and teaching in the fields of
wood anatomy, dendrochronology, biological, physical and mechanical properties of wood,
and wood
drying. The goal of this laboratory "is to
develop dated tree ring chronologies of the most important species in the
region and to develop different aspects of dendrochronological research in
cooperation with different research fields like archaeology, restoration,
history, ethnology, and ecology." The pictures and
explanations on dendrochronology found on this site are some of the best
I've ever seen.
Lund
University
Laboratory
of Wood Anatomy and Dendrochronology
Located at Lund University in Sweden, the
primary focus of research at this laboratory "...is devoted to
dendrochronology - constructing reference chronologies on oak, pine and
spruce for different regions of Sweden." The chronologies are later
used for absolute dating of timber from archaeological excavations
(settlements, etc.) and standing structures (houses, etc.). Their Home
Page provides information about research personnel, research projects, and
recent publications.
University of Minnesota
Minnesota Dendroecology Laboratory
The Minnesota Dendroecology Laboratory operates out of the
Department of Geography at the University of Minnesota. Led by faculty
members Dr. Kurt Kipfmueller and Dr. Susy Ziegler, the laboratory has
faculty and students conducting research in a variety of environments
and on a number of topics, including climate change, climate-vegetation
relationships, disturbance ecology, and vegetation modeling. These
well-organized and laid-out web pages have links to these research
projects, detailed personnel information, links, facilities, and even a
picture gallery (being developed).
University of Missouri-Columbia
Tree-Ring
Laboratory
Perhaps one of the most artistic web sites in dendrochronology, the
Missouri Tree-Ring Laboratory web site is masterfully organized and a
pleasure to browse. Links are supplied to learn about the facilities, the
faculty and staff (including the effervescent Dr. Richard Guyette),
current projects (and there are many), and recent publications. This
laboratory is involved in everything from fire history to
dendroarchaeology!
University of Montreal
Groupe
de Recherche en Dendrochronologie Historique
The Research
Group in Historical Dendrochronology (GRDH) is an official non-profit
organization that began operation in January 2002. The organization is
based at the Department of Anthropology of the University of Montreal, and
brings together researchers who wish to advance the field of historical
dendrochronology (dendroarchaeology) and the dating of historic and
prehistoric sites in Quebec. The web pages, all in French, provide
background information on archaeological dendrochronology, current
projects, and services offered.
Mount Allison University
MAD
Laboratory
Launched in Fall 2003, this laboratory is led by Colin Laroque who, along
with his impressive crew, has put together a very entertaining and
informative web site. For those of you (like me) who have no clue where
Mount Allison University is, it's located in Sackville, New Brunswick,
Canada. "The first priority of the MAD Lab is to establish extensive
tree-ring chronologies in the region. These chronologies will form
the foundation of various projects, from researching annually-resolved
proxy climatic records for the Atlantic region, to dating historic
structures in Maritime Canada."
University
of Nevada, Reno
Tree-Ring
Laboratory
Dr. Franco Biondi heads this laboratory, along with
Scotty Strachan, Kishor Waikul, and Peter Hartsough. This site contains
information on the lab's current projects, the lab's emphasis on GIS,
pictures of the lab facilities, and links to downloadable forms for
skeleton plotting. Of particular interest is the lab's programming
expertise, which has resulted already in significant new software for
analyzing the climate/tree growth relationship.
University of North Carolina-Greensboro
Carolina Tree-Ring Science Laboratory
This laboratory was established by long-time tree-ring researcher Dr.
Paul Knapp, who has published some important articles that concern
tree-ring dating of western junipers and ponderosa pines all over the
western U.S. with colleague Pete Soule from Appalachian State
University. Begun in 2006, this lab has all the amenities: wood
preparation, measurement, and crossdating. Paul states: "My observations
over the past decade have led me to believe that tree-ring science is a
great sub-discipline for physical geographers, with extensive, relevant,
and timely applications that are often
interdisciplinary."
Oxford University
Laboratory
of Dendrogeomorphology
Dr. Vanessa Winchester heads this laboratory. This site
contains information on the lab's equipment, its current projects, and a
list of publications by Dr. Winchester and her colleagues. You'll also
find information about the use of tree rings to answer questions related
to geomorphic questions, such as slope stability, glacier movements and
history, debris flow frequency, and arroyo development.
Pennsylvania
State University
Vegetation
Dynamics Laboratory
Part of the Department of Geography, this laboratory
was initiated by Dr. Alan H. Taylor, who has conducted considerable
tree-ring research on fire history and vegetation change. This site
provides information on their research projects (fire history, climate
reconstructions, vegetation change, and archaeology), internship
possibilities, and also a virtual tour of the laboratory.
University of Regina
Tree-Ring
Laboratory
Established in
1998, this multidimensional laboratory has its processing and measuring
facility located in the Department of Geography while the researchers and
data processing lab are based at the Prairie Adaptation Research
Collaborative (PARC), a climate change research center. Personnel have
focused on developing a network of 60 tree-ring chronologies encompassing
the island forests of eastern Montana, and the foothills and boreal
forests of Alberta, Saskatchewan and the Northwest Territories. Their web
site provides information on theses, personnel (past and current),
projects, presentations, and sites sampled.
Sheffield
University
The
Sheffield Dendrochronology Laboratory
Located at the Research School of Archaeology and
Archaeological Science in Sheffield, England, this laboratory engages in,
among many other things, (1) the dating of historical structures, (2)
development of a prehistoric tree-ring chronology, (3) investigating
woodland changes, and (4) analyzing climatic change for the last 2,000
years. The Sheffield Laboratory has a long and storied history in applied
dendrochronology.
Swiss
Federal Institute, Birmensdorf
The
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
(WSL)
The WSL, located in Birmensdorf, Switzerland, is home to many
dendrochronologists, including Drs. Fritz H. Schweingruber, Otto Bräker,
Paolo Cherubini, Klaus Felix Kaiser, and many others. These Web pages are
multilingual, and provide information about the main topics of research, a
full listing of its staff, recent publications, and even a separate page
for radiodensitometry! These pages are a wealth of information concerning
dendrochronology, all at your finger tips.
Forest
and Climate
Forest
Condition Inventory and Long-term Monitoring
Forest
Development and Management Planning
Landscape
Ecology Department
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Dr.
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The University of Tennessee
Laboratory of Tree-Ring Science
This laboratory has been conducting research in dendrochronology for
nearly 10 years. Directed by Dr. Henri D. Grissino-Mayer, the lab consists
of two Associate Directors (Drs. Sally Horn and Ken Orvis), a part-time
Research Technician, seven Ph.D. and three M.S. graduate students
(representing both Geography and Geosciences), several
undergraduates, and visiting students from both Forestry and Ecology. The
web site contains detailed information on their current and completed
projects, the lab's facilities, and its impressive amount of equipment.
The lab specializes in conducting research in fire history, climate
reconstructions, and archaeological investigations.
Past
and Current Projects
Personnel of the LTRS
Equipment
of the LTRS
Teaching
Dendro at the LTRS
Facilities
of the LTRS
Awards
for the LTRS
News stories about the LTRS
The
University of Victoria
Tree-Ring
Laboratory
Headed by Dr. Dan Smith in the Department of
Geography at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada,
researchers at this laboratory have investigated the past climate of the
Canadian Rockies during the last 1,000 years, especially the impact of the
Little Ice Age (LIA). Other projects include the dendrochronological
dating of LIA glacier advances, and the investigation of snow avalanche
impacts.
The University of Western Ontario
Dendrogeomorphology
Laboratory
Headed by Dr. Brian Luckman, the dendrogeomorphology laboratory has
been one of the most active and productive laboratories of its kind
anywhere in the world. These pages provide a brief history of this
facility, a summary of the current research bring conducted, and
information on their facilities and graduate students. A photo gallery
adds a personal touch to this laboratory and highlights the many locations
where they are conducting their research.
Vytautas Magnus University
Group
of Dendroclimatology and Radiometrics
This web site will inform you of a laboratory that
has a long tradition in dendrochronology. Many of us know about the famous
Teodoras Bitvinskas -- this research group continues his legacy in Kaunas,
Lithuania. The group consists of Rutile Pukiene, Adomas Vitas, Jonas
Karpavicius, Algimantas Daukantas, Emilija Podžarova, and Elvyra
Šimkūnienė. These web pages describe their current projects,
their history, and their activities. Pages are also provided with
important links and for contact information.
Major
Laboratories at Other Institutions
Dendrolab,
Rimouski, Québec
Dendrolab is a brand-new company (2007) that specializes in the dating
of wood by dendrochronology. Led by Yan Boulager, these experts can date
houses, barns, bridges, or any other old structure containing suitable
pieces of wood. Their web pages explain their procedures for dating
historic structures, provide examples of structures that have been
dated, give links to important web sites relevant to dendrochronology,
and of course, gives details for contacting the firm.
Micha Beuting,
Musical Instruments and Art Objects
Dr. Beuting's
special fields are the microscopic identification of wood species and the
age determination of musical instruments and art objects by analyzing the
tree-ring structure. This non-destructive scientific method addresses
itself as a service to museums, collectors, insurance agencies, auction
houses, dealers, and luthiers. Dr. Beuting has worked closely with Dr.
Peter Klein and his dissertation research concerned the wood structure and
dendrochronological analyses of musical instruments.
Lone
Pine Research
Created in 2003 by John C. King, this consulting firm conducts
research for public agencies and environmental engineering firms, and John
is a contributing author on several scientific publications and technical
reports. Recent projects have focused on riparian forest dynamics and
forest disturbance events. John's prolific research has involved
assembling over 150 tree-ring chronologies, including 28 records greater
than 1000 years and 51 records archived with the International Tree-Ring
Data Bank.
Ökologie
Büro Hofmann
Frieder
Hofmann notes that the special topic of this laboratory is dedicated to
environmental pollution issues and forensic dendrochronology using
chemical and isotopic fingerprinting methods. This lab is also involved
with monitoring emission effect by means of biological and technical
monitoring procedures, the development of pollution histories from
tree-ring data, and integrated environmental monitoring.
Institute
of Archaeology, University College London
Dr. Martin
Bridge has been conducting tree-ring research in Great Britain since 1979,
and is currently involved in the dating of many structures throughout the
English countryside. These web pages provide some information on how the
dating is done on these structures, a list of his publications, and
information on the ship Mary Rose.
Oxford
Dendrochronology Laboratory
This
laboratory, operated by Daniel H. Miles and Michael Worthington, is an
independent tree-ring dating facility that maintains close ties with the
Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, Oxford
University (see below). Their research concentrates primarily on the
dating and analysis of standing timber structures, although other projects
have involved Medieval wet wood, development of a miniature core
extraction system, and collection of juniper samples from the Sierra
Nevada of California.
Rocky
Mountain Tree-Ring Research, Inc.
Peter
Brown, one of the most active scientists in dendrochronology, began this
non-profit company in 1997, having received his formal training at the
Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research. He is very active in reconstructions of
fire history, and has recently begun research in climate reconstructions
and the development of ecosystem management plans.
These pages provide information on RMTRR, Inc., and are well-organized and
easy to navigate.
The
OLDLIST database: oldest individual trees for each species
Scientific
Research Bureau (NIB), Vologda, Russia
The
dendrochronological laboratory of the Scientific Research Bureau was
established in 1994 in Vologda, Russia, on Prof. Fritz Schweingruber's
initiative (dendrochronologists may remember Vologda, where the 9th
International Dendroecological Field Week took place in 1994). Since the
beginning the lab has been closely cooperating with the Swiss Federal
Research Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape (WSL), Birmensdorf
(Switzerland). This page provides information on services available,
infrastructure and equipment, databases available, and projects that could
be initiated. A very informative page.
Paleofloods
in the Red River Basin
"The
Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) and the Manitoba Geological Survey (MGS)
have initiated a large, multi-disciplinary research program on flood
hazards in the Red River Basin. This project will develop an accurate
record of high magnitude floods in the Red River over the last 500 years
and determine the impact of long-term climatic and environmental changes
on flood frequency and magnitude." Be sure to visit their
"Accomplishments" which provides detailed information on their
dendrochronology laboratory and the results to date.
Tree-Ring
Services
This
independent company is located in Berkshire, United Kingdom, and offers
a tree-ring dating and dendroclimatological analysis for companies,
professional archaeologists, historians and individuals alike. The firm
is operated by Dr. Andy Moir, who provides "tree-ring analysis of live
trees and archaeological timbers". The site contains an introduction to
dendrochronology, a list of tree species (with useful photographs)
suitable for tree-ring dating (in the United Kingdom), and a listing of
services and pricing information.
Laboratory
for Paleoclimatology and Climatology
"The
LPC is a laboratory of the Department of Geography at the University of
Ottawa (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada). We are involved in the analysis and
modelling of climate changes and their impacts on ecosystems. These pages
describe the people working in the laboratory, the projects in which we
are involved, and the facilities available for research on environmental
change. The emphasis of our work is the analysis of the past (the fossil
record) as a way to better understand the present and the future."
Institute
of Environmental Physics
This
Radiocarbon Laboratory at the Universität Heidelberg in Heidelberg,
Germany, is part of the Institute for Environmental Physics. Dr. Bernd
Kromer is in charge of this laboratory, and he and his research have been
instrumental for developing and extending the radiocarbon calibration time
scale. Dr. Kromer has worked extensively with the late Dr. Bernd Becker.
This site provides detailed information about their research, and also
provides a list of their publications.
National
Wetlands Research Center
The
mission of the NWRC is to "...provide ecological, modeling, and
restoration research on forested wetlands in the South." The NWRC has
a very active dendroecology research program with Drs. Thomas Doyle and
Bob Keeland leading the research. Extensive information is available from
the research this group conducts on southern conifer species.
Dendrolabor
Hohenheim
Located at
the Institute for Botany at the Universität Hohenheim in Stuttgart,
Germany, this laboratory consists of Drs. Marco Spurk, Jutta Hofmann, and
Michael Friedrich at the Internationale PalaeoKlima-DatenBank (PKDB).
English
Heritage - Centre for Archaeology
This
laboratory is a part of the English
Heritage's Archaeology Division, and has
funded numerous archaeological tree-ring projects aimed at elucidating the
construction history of structures such as farmhouses, manors, and
churches. A very informative link.
U.S.
Geological Survey Cascades Volcano Observatory
Provides
information on their project "Tree-Ring Dating of Volcanic
Deposits."
Links to
Personal Home Pages
Marc D. Abrams,
School of Forest Resources, Penn State University, Pennsylvania, USA
Craig Allen, Jemez Mountains Field
Station, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
Kevin Anchukaitis,
Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, The University of Arizona, USA
Fred
Baes, III, Oak Ridge National
Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
Michael G.L. Baillie, Queen's
University of Belfast, United Kingdom
David
J. Barclay, Department of Geology,
State University of New York College at Cortland, USA
Bruce
Bauer, National Geophysical Data
Center, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Yves Bégin, Centre d'études
nordiques, Université Laval, Canada
Yves Bergeron, Groupe de recherche en
ecologie forestiere, Université du Québec a Montreal, Canada
Franco Biondi, Scripps Institution of
Oceanography, University of California - San Diego, California, USA
Otto
Ulrich Bräker, Swiss Federal
Institute for Forestry, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
Keith
Briffa, Climatic Research Unit,
University of East Anglia, United Kingdom
Peter
M. Brown, Rocky Mountain Tree-Ring
Research, Ft. Collins, Colorado, USA
William M. Buhay, Department of
Geography, University of Winnipeg, Canada
David Butler, Department of Geography
and Planning, Texas State University, USA
Marco
Carrer, Treeline Ecology Research
Unit, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy
Paolo Cherubini, Swiss Federal
Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Switzerland
Malcolm Cleaveland, Department of
Geography, University of Arkansas, USA
Ed
Cook, Lamont-Doherty Earth
Observatory, Columbia University, USA
Katarina Cufar, Dendrochronological Laboratory,
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Rosanne
D'Arrigo, Lamont-Doherty Earth
Observatory, Columbia University, USA
Andrew
De Volder, Quaternary Studies
Program, Northern Arizona University, USA
David R. DeWalle, School of Forest
Resources, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Michèle Kaennel Dobbertin, Swiss
Federal Institute for Forestry, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
Jim Ehleringer, Department of
Biology, University of Utah, USA
Samuel Epstein, Division of
Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, USA
Michael
N. Evans, Laboratory
of Tree-Ring Research, The University of Arizona, USA
Jim Fairchild-Parks,
Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, The University of Arizona, USA
Donald
A. Falk,
Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, The University of Arizona, USA
Calvin
Farris, Laboratory
of Tree-Ring Research, The University of Arizona, USA
Xiahong Feng, Case Western Reserve
University, USA
Louise Filion, Département de
géographie, Université Laval, Canada
Giovanni
Fontana, Via Cesiolo 18, 37126 Verona Italy
Harold C. Fritts,
Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, The University of Arizona, USA
Gregg Garfin,
Institute for the Study of Planet Earth, The University of Arizona, USA
Jeffrey H. Gove, Northeastern Forest
Experiment Station, Durham, NH, USA
John Grattan, Institute of Earth
Studies, The University of Wales, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
Lisa Graumlich, Laboratory of
Tree-Ring Research, The University of Arizona, USA
Kathryn M. Gregory-Wodzicki,
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, USA
Henri D. Grissino-Mayer, Department
of Geography, The University of Tennessee, USA
Olavi
Heikkinen, Department of Geography,
University of Oulu, Finland
Ingo Heinrich,
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany
Katie
Hirschboeck, Laboratory of Tree-Ring
Research, The University of Arizona, USA
Frieder Hofmann, Ökologiebüro, TIEM
Integrated Environmental Monitoring, Germany
Sally Horn, Department of Geography,
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Gordon
Jacoby, Lamont-Doherty Earth
Observatory, Columbia University, USA
Glenn Juday, Department of Forest
Ecology, University of Alaska - Fairbanks, USA
Margot
W. Kaye, School
of Forest Resources, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Cornelia
Krause,
Laboratoire d'écologie végétale - Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
- Canada
Barbara L.
Lachenbruch, College of
Forestry, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
Peter
Ian Kuniholm, Department of the
History of Art & Archaeology, Cornell University, USA
Colin Laroque, Mount Allison
University, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada
Steven
W. Leavitt, Laboratory of Tree-Ring
Research, The University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
Ken Lertzman, Resource and
Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Daniel
Lewis, Department of Earth and
Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee, USA
Andrea H. Lloyd, Department of
Biology, Middlebury College, Vermont, USA
Brian Luckman, Department of
Geography, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Glen MacDonald, Department of
Geography, University of California - Los Angeles, USA
Sturt Manning, Department of
Classics, Cornell University, USA
Brian
C. McCarthy, Dept. of
Environmental and Plant Biology, Ohio University, Athens, USA
Dave
M. Meko, Laboratory of Tree-Ring
Research, The University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
Renzo Motta, Dep. AGROSELVITER,
University of Turin, Italy
Steve
Norman,
Department of Geography, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Jonathan
Palmer, School of Archaeology and
Palaeoecology, Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland
Momchil Panayotov, Dendrochronology
Laboratory, University of Forestry, Bulgaria
Irina
P. Panyushkina, Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, The
University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
Serge
Payette, Centre d'études nordiques, Université Laval,
Canada
Neil Pederson, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia
University, USA
Shelly
Rayback, Department of
Geography, University of British Columbia, Canada
Fritz
H. Schweingruber, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow
and Landscape Research, Switzerland
Paul Sheppard, Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, The
University of Arizona, USA
Dan
Smith,
Tree-Ring Laboratory, The University of Victoria, Canada
R. Scott St. George, Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, The
University of Arizona, USA
Dave Stahle,
Department of Geography, University of Arkansas, USA
Tom Swetnam,
Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, The University of Arizona, USA
Jacques Tardif, Centre for Forest
Interdisciplinary Research, University of Winnipeg, Canada
Alan
Taylor, Department of Geography, The Pennsylvania State
University, USA
Ramzi Touchan, Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, The
University of Arizona, USA
Ronald H. Towner, Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, The
University of Arizona, USA
Cathy Tyers, Sheffield
Dendrochronology Laboratory, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Ian
Tyers, Sheffield Dendrochronology Laboratory, Sheffield,
United Kingdom
Barbara Vokal,
Department of Physical and Organic Chemistry, Jozef Stefan Institute,
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Carola
Wenk, Computer Science Department, University of Texas -
San Antonio, USA
Greg Wiles,
Department of Geology, The College of Wooster, USA
Connie
Woodhouse, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research,
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
David
Yamaguchi, 5630 200th Street SW #B-202, Lynnwood,
Washington, USA
Pentti
Zetterberg, Karelian Institute, University of Joensuu,
Joensuu, Finland |
