Capabilities
Lab capabilities can produce long-term, high-resolution baseline records of environmental change.
The tree ring lab is fully equipped to prepare and process wood samples of all sizes.
1) Sample preparation and preservation
2) Sample measurement and data development
3) Sub-sampling of wood material for subsequent anatomical or chemical analyses
Instrumentation
- Sampling tools (increment borers, punch corers, chainsaws, etc.)
- Woodshop power tools
- Core microtome
- Rotary stage and boom microscope
Collaborators
- Dinosaur National Monument
- Colorado College
- Rocky Mountain Tree-Ring Research
- Trinchera Ranch
- Cielo Vista Ranch
- Dos Hermanos Ranch
Related
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.
Related
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.