Principal Investigator:D'Arrigo, Rosanne Licensed Year(s):
2004
Summary:
The overall goal of the project is to develop tree-ring records from old growth trees at northern treeline locations in Canada and Alaska. This information is used to reconstruct Arctic and Northern Hemisphere temperatures over the past several centuries...
Principal Investigator:Jagels, Richard Licensed Year(s):
2000
Summary:
The NWT component of this study is to examine how the anatomical features of wood from the genus Larix, vary with changes in latitude. This will be compared to work done on Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut where a fossil forest of mummified wood approximately 45 million years old was found. Certain features of wood can provide clues to assess winter temperatures but these features vary with latitude....