Hydroclimate, fire, and human interactions in southwestern US tree ring records
We have identified areas of the southwestern US that do not contain paleorecords of precipitation, fire, and/or human activity. These records may be missing because, for example, lakes and forests are few and far between in much of the southwestern US. However, other sites exist that do not yet have paleorecords, but do have potential for providing lake cores and tree ring records.
This research is a task of the Did we start the fire? Drought, Fire and Humans Project.
We aim to create a dendrochronology record from the San Luis Valley and Sangre de Cristo Mountains, CO examining links between hydroclimate and human interactions. (Our Fire, human activity, and climate records in SW US sediments research also links to this aim).
Did we start the fire? Drought, Fire and Humans
Fire and vegetation changes recorded in Alaskan ice cores
Fire, human activity, and drought records in southwestern US sediments
We have identified areas of the southwestern US that do not contain paleorecords of precipitation, fire, and/or human activity. These records may be missing because, for example, lakes and forests are few and far between in much of the southwestern US. However, other sites exist that do not yet have paleorecords, but do have potential for providing lake cores and tree ring records.
This research is a task of the Did we start the fire? Drought, Fire and Humans Project.
We aim to create a dendrochronology record from the San Luis Valley and Sangre de Cristo Mountains, CO examining links between hydroclimate and human interactions. (Our Fire, human activity, and climate records in SW US sediments research also links to this aim).