Announcing new TREX Webinar: Using Tree-Ring Research to Develop Critical Scientific Thinking Skills in Undergraduate Students

Tree-Ring Expeditions (TREX) uses digital technology to build publically available labs that tap into the excitement of launching an expedition while introducing undergraduate students to groundbreaking tree-ring studies that have had important societal impact. With TREX, students have the opportunity to use many of the same tools and strategies that tree-ring scientists do, including: exploring important tree-ring sites, measuring and evaluating data from those sites, and using online research and analysis tools and databanks.

Registration is now open for the next TREX Webinar:

Using Tree-Ring Research to Develop Critical Scientific Thinking Skills in Undergraduate Students

Thursday, November 2, 2017
12:00 pm PT | 1:00 pm MT | 2:00 pm CT | 3:00 pm ET
Presenter: Dr. Nicole Davi (William Paterson University & Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory)
Registration Deadline:Tuesday, October 31 , 2017

In this webinar, participants will learn about how dendrochronologists travel to remote regions of the world in search of slow growing, long-lived trees that record the environmental conditions where they live year-by-year in their growth rings. By studying these trees, scientists learn about environments and climates hundreds-to-thousands of years in the past. For example, scientists have used trees from such sites to reconstruct temperature variability of the past two thousand years in the Northern Hemisphere, to place exact calendar dates on ancestral pueblos in the U.S. Southwest and to reconstruct streamflow estimates for the U.S. Colorado River. Because the basic premise of dendrochronology is so intuitive, tree-ring research provides a wonderful window into how scientists work and advance knowledge about the climate of the past.

Goals

At the end of this webinar, participants will have:

• an overview of the five labs, instructor resources, assessments, and highlights

• the opportunity to hear from and ask questions of the author, an active dendrochronologist

All webinars are recorded. If you can't make the live event, check back on the webinar information page for the screencast/recording.