Hi All- As a co-organizer of the North American Dendroecological Fieldweek, I would like to invite you all to attend this year's workshop. See details below.
Take care, Stockton Maxwell The 28th Annual North American Dendroecological Fieldweek (NADEF) will be held at the A.L. Mickelson Field Station near Cody, WY. The fieldweek will run 21–30 July and registration fees will be $1300 US for students and $1500 US for professionals. Students should send a photocopy of their student ID with their registration. Your registration fee includes room and board for the entire week. Registration fees are due by May 30, 2018. *To register for #NADEF2018, please visit the Register to Attend <https://sites.google.com/view/nadef/register-to-attend> page.* *Group projects will include:* *Introductory Group:* Becky Brice (University of Arizona) and Karen Heeter (University of Idaho). This group will learn the basics of dendrochronology, including more time spent on site and tree selection, crossdating, detrending, and understanding chronology development. *Introductory Dendroclimatology:* Matt Bekker (Brigham Young University) and Justin DeRose (US Forest Service). This group will use various methods of quantitative analysis to explore the response of tree-rings to potential climate drivers, with the intent to develop a climate reconstruction (eg, precipitation, temperature, drought, streamflow, etc.) *Advanced Dendroclimatology (multi-proxy): *Bryan Black (University of Texas—Marine Science Institute), Grant Harley (University of Idaho), and Stockton Maxwell (Radford University). This group will investigate broad-scale climate drivers of regional drought using growth-increment chronologies from trees, bivalves, and rockfish. *Ecotone Shifts from Climate Change:* Margot Kaye (Penn State University), Jim Speer (Indiana State University), and Maegen Rochner (University of Tennessee). This group will use stand-age structure analysis at ecotones to examine vegetation response to climate change. *Fire History:* Peter Brown (Rocky Mountain Tree-Ring Research) and Christopher Gentry (Austin Peay State University). This group will examine the fire history of sites around the Absaroka Wilderness Area. *Insect Outbreaks (dendroentomology): *Jodi Axelson (University of California—Berkeley). This group will look to give historical context to the most recent spruce budworm epidemic across the Shoshone National Forest and Absaroka Wilderness Area. *Timing* The first event on July 21st is dinner around 6pm, followed by introductions by all of the participants, and an introductory lecture. Please arrange to arrive at the Cody Airport by 4pm on July 21st so that we can get you out to the field station in time for the first events. Also, please arrange to fly out from Cody after 10am on July 30th so that we have time to get you down to the airport without having to leave the field station before 7am. *Deliverables* Each group will develop and present a PowerPoint presentation to all of the fieldweek participants, starting at 1pm on July 29th. These presentations will subsequently be posted on the NADEF website. Each group will also produce a 5-page written report that will be compiled into the final report for the funding agencies, the field station, and the participants. *Websites* North American Dendroecological Fieldweek: https://sites.google.com/view/nadef <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fview%2Fnadef&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEK4aHKSff6uiv0-aREl2Z6WPrx6g> A.L. Mickelson Field Station: http://www.northwestcollege.edu/fieldstation/ <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.northwestcollege.edu%2Ffieldstation%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFSxV_tJM0_WLVBQ72rOC94QjqiGA> Register to attend: https://sites.google.com/view/nadef/register-to-attend <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fview%2Fnadef%2Fregister-to-attend&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFilFVymjhrqATAZIGQevZiEFD2DA> -- R. Stockton Maxwell, PhD Radford University Department of Geospatial Science 132 Cook Hall P.O. Box 6938 Radford, VA 24142 540-831-7604 [email protected]
