The activity below allows you to build a tree-ring chronology. Each horizontal bar represents the tree-ring pattern for one tree. By looking for matches in the patterns, you should be able to build an ...

Humans experience, adapt to and influence climate at local scales. Recent paleoclimate research, however, tends to focus on continental, hemispheric or global scales, making it difficult for ...

TUCSON — When Bryan Black accepted a post-doctoral research position at Oregon State University to study how fish grow, he hoped to apply his background in forest ecology to marine life. Black, a ...

How life evolved is one of the central questions in science and has fascinated humans for centuries. Early Earth was undoubtedly a harsh environment, but we know surprisingly little about the ...

The South Asian Monsoon and mid-latitude Westerlies are two important controls on Tibetan Plateau (TP) fresh water resources. Understanding their interaction requires long-term information on spatial ...

Archaeologists have a group of unlikely allies: trees. Dendrochronology, the scientific method of studying tree rings, can pinpoint the age of archaeological sites using information stored inside old ...