Tag: tree rings
event: Counting the Rings
by Greg on Sep.20, 2009, under Science Event
It has been four years since I have read Elizabeth Kolbert’s sprawling long essay on climate change? FOUR YEARS? I have to reread it and see if it anything has changed in that time period. If you feel like reading journalism at its best, someone reposted it: The Climate of Man 1,2,&3. This event is related to the central idea of that essay: that the demise of civilizations throughout human history have been the result of some catastrophic climate event like drought:
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Environmental Lecture
Did you know that tree rings can indicate more than the number of years a tree’s been alive? The width of each ring refers to how much the tree grew that year, so scientists are able to measure the ring widths to determine when historical droughts took place. (continue reading…)
Event: Tree Rings and Megadrought
by Lauren on Sep.17, 2009, under Science Event, Science Life
The explorers club presents a lecture by Dr. Brendon Buckley about big droughts in Southeast Asia during the 1300 and 1400s.
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Panorama of the East Coast
This Jan. 29 panorama of much of the East Coast, photographed by one of the Expedition 30 crew members aboard the International Space Station, provides a look generally northeastward: Philadelphia-New York City-Boston corridor (bottom-center); western Lake Ontario shoreline with Toronto (left edge); Montreal (near center). An optical illusion in the photo makes the atmospheric limb and light activity from Aurora Borealis appear "intertwined." Image Credit: NASA
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