Tuesday 31st January, E34, John Dalton East Building, from 1.00-2.00 pm.
Sandwiches, coffee and tea are available from 12.30 pm in room *E324 (please note change)
If you would like to chat informally with the speaker before the seminar, please contact this week’s host, Jonathan Lageard.
Sun, C, and the Torneträsk Tree-ring Chronology
Dr Neil Loader, Prifysgol Abertawe/Swansea University
Natural archives of environmental change provide a means for extracting past climatic information beyond the period of instrumental observations. Tree-rings represent such an archive and are capable of providing palæoclimatic data throughout the late Holocene for a range of geographical environments.
The application of isotopic techniques to the analysis of tree-rings is a rapidly developing field that provides new opportunities in Quaternary Research. A millennial length tree-ring chronology for the Torneträsk region of northern Fennoscandia is presented. The development of the record is described with specific reference to current challenges in high-resolution palæoclimatology, and outlines how, through a multi-parameter approach, new insight may be gained relating to climatic change in the Arctic.
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