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Fluvial activity in major river basins of the eastern United States during the Holocene
Super cool meta-analysis of fluvial reconstructions focused on regional watersheds of the eastern United States, by UA PhD student Ray Lombardi, published in Holocene.
Streamflow Variability Indicated by False Rings in Bald Cypress
In this paper we use baldcypress to develop a false ring record extending from 1881 to 2014. All 20 of the false-ring events recorded during the instrumental period occurred during years in which greatly increased streamflow occurred late in the growing season.
A record of flooding on the White River, Arkansas derived from tree-ring anatomical variability and vessel width
In this recent paper we look at inter-annual tree-ring anatomical variability and vessel width in overcup oak (Quercus lyrata) and river flooding at a bottomland hardwood forest site near the confluence of the White and Mississippi Rivers.
Fun podcast
I had a great time talking with Mira Shah for her podcast “Signals of Change”.
Freedom in Ridge Prairie
Had a nice article come out recently in Illinois Antiquity that includes some tree-ring dating of a log building associated with an Underground Railroad site in western IL. If you read the article you will notice that they call the structure the “poison shed” and it was pretty gross, but surprisingly I was able to date many of the samples, though were weren’t able to get a lot. Full Article
Hopewell Church
We collected samples from the Hopewell Baptist Church in hopes of using tree rings to date the structure. It is believed that it was built perhaps as early as 1843.
More sinker logs
We recently went to Micanopy, FL and got some great sinkerlog samples from the fine folks at Goodwin Lumber Co. These samples will help us extend baldcypress chronologies in the southeast back thousands of years.