2016

26^th Annual North American Dendroecological Fieldweek (NADEF)

Center for Sustainable Forestry, Pack Forest, Eatonville, WA

Groups:

Introductory: Christine Biermann (University of Washington) and Maegen Rochner (University of Tennessee)

• Development of an Extended Mountain Hemlock Chronology for Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, USA

Dendroclimatology: Bryan Black (University of Texas, Marine Science Institute)

• A 450-Year Reconstruction of Pacific Decadal Variability

Forest Ecosystem Dynamics: Margot Kaye (Penn State University) and Jim Speer (Indiana State University)

• Stand Dynamics and Carbon in an Old-growth Stand

Disturbance Ecology/Treeline Dynamics: Aquila Flower (Western Washington University)

• Muscling into Meadows: recent conifer encroachment in Mount Rainier’s subalpine meadows

Dendrohydrology: Grant Harley (University of Southern Mississippi) and Stockton Maxwell (Radford University)

• Cowlitz River Flow Variability Since 1550 CE Reconstructed from Tree Rings