Tag: Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Studying the Farthest-North Trees

by Kevin Krajick | 7.11.2011 at 5:26pm

A team led by Kevin Anchukaitis of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Tree Ring Lab is currently in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, studying the effects of changing climate on trees. Working near the treeline, they’re taking cores from spindly white spruces to measure weather of the past.

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Category> Climate, Ecosystems, General Earth Institute   Tags> Arctic, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, climate change, Global Warming, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

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