IN THE NEWS: Giant Sequoias Yield Longest Fire History from Tree Rings

Story by Mari N. Jensen, UA College of Science March 17, 2010

California's western Sierra Nevada had more frequent fires between 800 and 1300 than at any time in the past 3,000 years, according to a new study led by Thomas W. Swetnam, director of UA's Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research.
 
Read the complete news release HERE

Tree-Ring Talk on Tuesday March 23

Our new Haury visitor, Igor Drobyshev from the Dendrochronological Laboratory, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet -Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences will speak on:

Studying Fire History of Red Pine Forests of Eastern North America

Date:  Tuesday March 23
Time:  noon - 1:00 pm
Place:  Math East/Tree-Ring West (Bldg 45), Room 20

SAVE THE DATE: March 29th is Tree-Ring Day!

TREE-RING DAY features short talks by faculty, staff, and students in the LTRR about our ongoing research. This year it will take place on March 29th to kick off EARTH SCIENCE WEEK 2010, sponsored by the School of Earth & Environmental Sciences. 

The Tree-Ring Day Keynote Presentation will be given by our own Dr. Malcolm Hughes who will speak on:

Who Needs the Medieval Warm Period?

Date:    Monday March 29th
When:   1:30 - 2:30 pm  (Malcolm Hughes' Keynote presentaton)
Place:  The Arizona Historical Society's Arizona History Museum at:  949 E. 2nd Street

More information and a detailed schedule will be posted soon.

New Tree-Ring Lab building approved by ABOR

THE BRYANT BANNISTER TREE-RING BUILDING

The Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research (LTRR) has been housed in the West Stadium for more than 70 years, with minimal improvements to their facilities. The Arizona Board of Regents has just approved construction of the Bryant Bannister Tree-Ring Building to house the UA's Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research. The $12 million project will be funded by a $9 million gift from Agnese N. Haury, the wife of one of the lab's founders, plus $3 million in nonstate funds. The building will provide about 26,700 square feet of office and laboratory space for the facility, which is currently housed primarily at Arizona Stadium. Construction is scheduled to begin toward the end of this year and be completed in mid-2012. 

See also the Project Website at UA Planning, Design & Construction.

New Faculty Position: Forests in the Earth System

Announcing a new faculty position in Forests in the Earth System with the University of Arizona's Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research and the Institute of the Environment. 
The University of Arizona seeks to fill a faculty position in areas related to forests in the Earth System. We seek a quantitative scientist whose research addresses the interactions of climate, wildfire, forest growth and carbon dynamics, or a subset of these topics. The successful candidate will bring strong modeling and spatiotemporal analysis skills to complement existing strengths at UA in fire sciences, dendrochronology, paleoclimatology, the carbon cycle, remote sensing and tree and forest growth. We are especially interested in individuals whose research utilizes dendrochronology in novel and effective combination with other tools and methods to address basic or applied questions on these topics, particularly the scaling of understanding from landscape to global spatial scales.

See the complete announcement HERE.