Part 4: Creating Long Tree-Ring Records to Identify Extreme Climate Events part of TREX - Tree Ring Expeditions:TREX for Students:Labs
The forests that you have explored so far consist largely of old-growth trees that can live 300-600 years or more but tree-ring scientists have been able to create paleoclimate records that are much longer--over ...

Lab Overviews part of TREX - Tree Ring Expeditions:TREX for Students:Labs
Lab 1. Launching an Expedition In Part 1, you will be introduced to the science of dendrochronology. You will see how tree core samples are obtained and processed, and take a virtual tour of a tree-ring ...

Part 2. Recent Climate Extremes part of TREX - Tree Ring Expeditions:TREX for Students:Labs
Now that we have explored some past cold extremes and impacts in northwestern North America, we will turn our focus to recent and future climate warming and regional impacts in the Arctic. As you might know, ...

Part 3. The Future of Climate part of TREX - Tree Ring Expeditions:TREX for Students:Labs
Next up, we are going to consider what the future might look like for northwestern North America, specifically Alaska. How can we make predictions about future climate? While tree rings and other proxies tell us ...

Webinar Technology part of TREX - Tree Ring Expeditions:TREX Guides
Jump down to Accessing the Meeting | Meeting Audio | Testing the Connection Screen Sharing with Adobe Connect Presentations will take place through an Adobe Connect screen-sharing session. You will need an ...

Educator Guide: Lab 3 - Tree Rings and the Ancestral People of Pueblo Bonito: Uncovering the Past part of TREX - Tree Ring Expeditions:TREX Guides
Summary and Key Questions In Lab 3, students take a journey to the desert Southwest and examine and interpret science data to tell the story of the ancestral peope at Pueblo Bonito: When did they live in the ...

Part 3 - Exploring Tree-Ring Sites Around the World part of TREX - Tree Ring Expeditions:TREX for Students:Labs
Note: This work is under development but has been released temporarily for classroom testing purposes. Introduction Take a look at the huge number of published tree-ring chronologies (green triangles) that have ...

Part 1 - What is Dendrochronology? part of TREX - Tree Ring Expeditions:TREX for Students:Labs
Note: This work is under development but has been released temporarily for classroom testing purposes. A Brief History In the late 1800s and early 1900s, Andrew. E. Douglass founded the science of ...

Part 2 - The Life of a Tree-Ring Scientist part of TREX - Tree Ring Expeditions:TREX for Students:Labs
Note: This work is under development but has been released temporarily for classroom testing purposes. Each scientist working today was influenced and inspired in some way to enter their profession and commit to a ...

Request Access to Instructor-Only Materials part of TREX - Tree Ring Expeditions
Use the form below to request access to Educator-only files on the TREX website. You need to complete this form only once to have access to all TREX Educator-only files. Once you get email notification that you ...