http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu Thu, 23 May 2013 08:20:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/06/17/finally-some-true-turkish-delight-discovery-of-some-tasty-oaks/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/06/17/finally-some-true-turkish-delight-discovery-of-some-tasty-oaks/#comments Sun, 17 Jun 2012 15:53:32 +0000 Neil Pederson http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=28096 After a few days of mild frustration, the sampling of potentially old umbrella pine lifted our spirits and put us in a good frame of mind to conduct our last day of research in the temperate rainforest region of northeastern Turkey. We headed out of Borçka and met with a forest officer in charge of forests [...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/06/17/finally-some-true-turkish-delight-discovery-of-some-tasty-oaks/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/05/11/tree-ring-science-in-a-log-yard/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/05/11/tree-ring-science-in-a-log-yard/#comments Sat, 12 May 2012 03:31:04 +0000 Neil Pederson http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=26527 The cool, snowy weather really put a crimp in our plans. Dario, Tuncay, Cengis, and others spent two days trying to find potential sampling locations before Nesibe and I arrived. Even though it had been well above freezing during the day and above freezing at night, the snow had only retreated so far in the [...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/05/11/tree-ring-science-in-a-log-yard/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/05/05/maybe-not-the-turkey-you-imagine/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/05/05/maybe-not-the-turkey-you-imagine/#comments Sat, 05 May 2012 19:10:26 +0000 Neil Pederson http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=26100 Despite reading about these temperate rainforests, this is not the Turkey I imagined. This might not be the Turkey most people imagine. I’m really not sure what you envision when you think about Turkey. A dry, open landscape? That is what I thought.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/05/05/maybe-not-the-turkey-you-imagine/feed/ 5