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URL:https://ccr.nelson.wisc.edu/events/the-driftless-cedar-a-new-millennia
 l-scale-tree-ring-network-for-southwest-wisconsin/
SUMMARY:The Driftless Cedar: A new millennial-scale tree-ring network for S
 outhwest Wisconsin
DESCRIPTION:Speaker:  Evan Larson\, Professor of Environmental Sciences an
 d Society\, UW–Platteville\n\n\n\nAncient trees carry stories of climate
  and environmental change\, rooted to place\, that can help us to understa
 nd the past in order to better predict and prepare for the future. In the 
 field of tree-ring science\, or dendrochronology\, enthusiasts are quick t
 o celebrate the longevity of western species like giant sequoias\, redwood
 s\, and bristlecone pine\, or eastern species such as bald cypress. These 
 trees are magnificent for their stature\, twisted growth on windswept slop
 es\, or massive buttresses in inaccessible swamps and backwaters\; their l
 ongevity makes sense. Yet as researchers crisscrossed North America in sea
 rch of long tree-ring records\, few took the winding backroads of the Drif
 tless Area\, where pockets of centuries-old eastern redcedar trees humbly 
 resided among the outcrops and bluffs along nearly every meandering stream
  and river that shaped the land. This talk will share how a decade of unde
 rgraduate research at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville worked first
  with prairie oaks\, then with eastern redcedar\, to create a network of t
 ree-ring data that spans the past millennium and is now providing annually
 -resolved insights on a suite of hydrologic variables\, from drought and g
 roundwater elevations in southwest Wisconsin\, to rainfall over the Corn B
 elt\, to a nascent gridded drought reconstruction that will span the Great
  Plains. Within the information about past climates carried by these trees
  are woven the influences of shifting culture and land use\, with implicat
 ions for how we approach ecological restoration in the Midwest. Linked wit
 h other tree-ring collections developed by UW-Platteville students\, the p
 otential for a Wisconsin paleohydrology atlas is emerging.\n\nView the liv
 estream
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