Tag: tree rings

Valerie Trouet, University of Arizona – Shipwrecks, Tree Rings and Hurricanes

Jul 21, 2016

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Academic Minute

in Agriculture, History

How can tree rings and shipwrecks help us predict where hurricanes will hit in the future? Valerie Trouet, Associate Professor of Dendrochronology at the University of Arizona, explains how studying the past can help us protect ourselves in the 21st century. Valerie Trouet is an Associate Professor in the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research at the…