2024

The 33rd Annual Dendrochronology Field School (DFS; formerly NADEF) was held at the Mountain Lake Biological Station in Pembroke, VA. DFS returned to the amazing Mountain Lake facility for the first time since 2011, and then in 1993 before that. For the 33 participants and 6 group leaders this year, the surrounding forests of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains of the Southern Appalachians offered old growth trees from red spruce to white oak, as well as fire-scarred pines and hardwoods, old cabins for dating, and highly-competitive ecosystems with rich disturbance histories for dendroecology.

#DFS2024 Groups:

Introductory: Dr. Grant Harley (University of Idaho)

Climatology: Dr. Stockton Maxwell (Radford University)

Ecology: Dr. Karen King (University of Tennessee-Knoxville) & Dr. Justin Maxwell (Indiana University)

Fire History: Dr. Tom Saladyga (Concord University)

Archaeology: Dr. Maegen Rochner (University of Louisville)

Deliverables: Final presentations that detail the project results from each group are below: