I walked out of the house Thursday morning when my nose detected it – a forest fire! Having worked for two years in the piney woods of southwest Georgia, I had become accustomed to and, actuall...
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2013/11/20/fire-on-the-mountain-fire-in-the-burbs/
Daily comparisons on TV or other media sources are typically based upon recent climate and ignore the past. Dased upon paleo records, the full picture indicates that we are sitting in one of the ...
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2013/09/15/the-pluvial-continues-has-the-long-rain-epoch-begun/
When we walked into the Sheraton in Springfield, Massachusetts we were greeted by none other than a wall full of cross sections from trees perfectly sanded to reveal the rings. “No way” I say...
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2013/05/06/out-of-the-woods/
“You can do math on excel?” I ask. I immediately imagine a face-palm response, but Dario, one of my advisors, is nice enough to hide it. I’ve collected tree core samples, I’ve prepared th...
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2013/04/05/visual-skateboarding/
Ever since I've started learning to cross-date tree core samples, I've learned I have a type. I prefer my tree cores to be black oaks, middle-aged, with some nice big rings to show me. Alright, f...
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2013/03/28/ill-go-on-a-cross-date-if-you-show-me-some-rings/
“Are you using this idea for your thesis research?” I heard this as I stood in front of a classroom full of old-growth forest ecology students. The question had come from Neil Pederson, who w...
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2013/02/28/are-you-using-this-idea-for-your-thesis-research/
By Ana Camila Gonzalez “But can’t you see the rings already?” I ask, wondering why I’ve been asked to sand a sample- it sounds to me like one would damage a sample by subjecting it to the...
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2012/11/04/the-zen-of-sanding/
My feet are soaking wet and I’m playing a game of Marco Polo, but I’m nowhere near a pool. It’s my second day on the job. It’s my second week of college. I have no idea what to expect.
2012 is turning out to be an exceptional year in the eastern US. Starting out with what was essentially a #YearWithoutaWinter, followed by a heat wave in March, a hot summer, Macoun and Cortland ...
I have to call myself out. Earlier I had professed to being a former coniferphile. That was, of course, silly. I like coniferous trees very much. Half of my business is made from this lovely bran...