Margot Kuitems

University of Groningen

Participates in 1 Session

Sessions in which Margot Kuitems participates

Wednesday 29 June, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

8:45

Exact Dating of the First Europeans in the Americas (Keynote presentation)

30 minutes, 8:45 - 9:15

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Amphitheatre (SH-2800)

Keynote

Margot Kuitems, University of Groningen (Keynote speaker)

M.W. Dee, University of Groningen (Keynote speaker)

Dendrochronology is considered one the most precise of all the scientific dating techniques. However, it requires ...

Sessions in which Margot Kuitems attends

Monday 27 June, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

13:30

Workshop. Best practices for using tree-ring stable isotopes of Carbon and Oxygen in paleoclimate and ecophysiology.

3 hours 30 minutes, 13:30 - 17:00

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Classroom (SH-3260)

Workshop

Soumaya Belmecheri, Laboratory of Tree Ring Reserch (Instructor)

Milagros Rodriguez-Caton, University of California Davis (Instructor)

Alienor Lavergne, University of Reading (UK) (Instructor)

Paul Szejner, Instituto de Geología Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (Instructor)

Valérie Daux, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement / Université de Versailles Saint Quentin (Instructor)

Free, in person and onlineThe stable isotopic composi...

Tuesday 28 June, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

8:45

Dr. Florence Hawley Ellis Lecture (Keynote presentation)

30 minutes, 8:45 - 9:15

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Amphitheatre (SH-2800)

Keynote

Justine Ngoma, The Copperbelt University (Keynote speaker)

Africa is faced with a number of challenges including climate change and ecological disturbance due to various anthropogenic activities. These p...

10:05

Long-term carbon storage and residence time in old-growth forests

15 minutes, 10:05 - 10:20

Part of: General Session (Dendroecology, PT1)

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Salle polyvalente (SH-4800)

Talk

Dario Martin-Benito, INIA-CSIC (Speaker)

Forest disturbances and tree growth are major drivers of dynamics and long-term carbon storage in forests. Combining forest inventory data and t...

11:00

Toward a Historiography of Dendrochronology

15 minutes, 11:00 - 11:15

Part of: General Session (New perspectives and developments)

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Salle polyvalente (SH-4800)

Talk

James Capshew, Indiana University (Speaker)

"Emerging in the early 20th century, the scientific study of tree-rings has a rich but under-cultivated history. This project reviews the histor...

11:30

To discard or not to discard: On cross-dating ecological tree-ring collections

15 minutes, 11:30 - 11:45

Part of: General Session (New perspectives and developments)

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Salle polyvalente (SH-4800)

Talk

Neil Pederson, Harvard Forest (Speaker)

Tree-ring research has given generations of scientists a long memory of what is acceptable for a tree to be included for data analysis. The esta...

13:30

General Session (Ecophysiology)

1 day 3 hours 30 minutes, Tue 28, 13:30 - Wed 29, 17:00

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Salle polyvalente (SH-4800)

Talk

Ali Segovia-Rivas, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Speaker)

Jeanny Thivierge-Lampron, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (Speaker)

Katja Rinne-Garmston, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) (Speaker)

Paulina Fernanda Puchi Gonzalez, Dipartimento Territorio e Sistemi Agro-Forestali (Speaker)

Charlotte Angove, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Speaker)

Marceau Badaroux, Uqat (Speaker)

Sepideh Namvar, Geotop (Chair)

Guillermo Gea-Izquierdo, INIA-CSIC (Chair)

13:45

Intra-annual boreal tree growth and water stress responses to environmental changes

15 minutes, 13:45 - 14:00

Part of: General Session (Ecophysiology)

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Salle polyvalente (SH-4800)

Talk

Jeanny Thivierge-Lampron, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (Speaker)

In the context of climate change, more research is needed to better understand the impact of short-term environmental stressors on forest produc...

14:00

Interpretation of intra-annual tree-ring δ13C profiles of control, droughted and re-watered Scots pines

15 minutes, 14:00 - 14:15

Part of: General Session (Ecophysiology)

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Salle polyvalente (SH-4800)

Talk

Katja Rinne-Garmston, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) (Speaker)

Intra-annual tree-ring δ13C record has the potential to provide deep insights into past plant performance and environmental conditions. With con...

14:15

Long-term eddy covariance fluxes and xylem anatomy for understanding carbon fixation in white pine woody biomass

15 minutes, 14:15 - 14:30

Part of: General Session (Ecophysiology)

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Salle polyvalente (SH-4800)

Talk

Paulina Fernanda Puchi Gonzalez, Dipartimento Territorio e Sistemi Agro-Forestali (Speaker)

Improving our understanding of the carbon cycle is key to addressing the challenges of climate change. In this study, we investigated the relati...

15:30

500 years of past temperatures derived using Blue Intensity from Araucaria araucana in Northern Patagonia, Argentina

15 minutes, 15:30 - 15:45

Part of: General Session (Dendroclimatology, PT4)

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Classroom (SH-3420)

Talk

Rob Wilson, University of St Andrews (Speaker)

Ring-width (RW) and Blue Intensity (BI) parameters (earlywood - EWB, inverted latewood – LWBinv, and delta - DB) were measured from samples of A...

16:00

Subfossil trees re-date the Laacher See eruption to 13,006 BP and synchronize the Younger Dryas

15 minutes, 16:00 - 16:15

Part of: General Session (Dendroclimatology, PT4)

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Classroom (SH-3420)

Talk

Frederick Reinig, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Speaker)

The Laacher See Eruption (LSE) ranks among Europe’s largest Upper Pleistocene volcanic events. Although its tephra deposits represent an importa...

16:15

Can we identify volcanic signals in Southern Hemisphere tree rings?

15 minutes, 16:15 - 16:30

Part of: General Session (Dendroclimatology, PT4)

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Classroom (SH-3420)

Talk

Philippa Higgins, University of New South Wales (Speaker)

"Little is known about the impact of volcanoes on trees from the Southern Hemisphere. In this study, we investigated whether volcanic signals co...

Wednesday 29 June, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

8:45

Exact Dating of the First Europeans in the Americas (Keynote presentation)

30 minutes, 8:45 - 9:15

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Amphitheatre (SH-2800)

Keynote

Margot Kuitems, University of Groningen (Keynote speaker)

M.W. Dee, University of Groningen (Keynote speaker)

Dendrochronology is considered one the most precise of all the scientific dating techniques. However, it requires ...

9:20

Applications and advances in X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) for dendrochronology

15 minutes, 9:20 - 9:35

Part of: Symposium 7 (PT 1). Historical Timbers and Wooden Artifacts as Archives: New Glimpses On Trees, Ecology, and People

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Amphitheatre (SH-2800)

Talk

Francien Bossema, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (Speaker)

Over the past 10 years, X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) has been increasingly applied to dendrochronological research. This technique provides 3D...

Symposium 7 (PT 1). Historical Timbers and Wooden Artifacts as Archives: New Glimpses On Trees, Ecology, and People

1 hour 15 minutes, 9:20 - 10:35

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Amphitheatre (SH-2800)

Talk

Caroline Leland, William Paterson University (Moderator)

Maegen Rochner, University of Louisville (Moderator)

Marta Domínguez-Delmás, Rijksmuseum (Moderator)

Neil Pederson, Harvard Forest (Moderator)

Francien Bossema, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (Speaker)

Mukund Palat Rao, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (Speaker)

Darrin Rubino, Hanover College (Speaker)

Fusa Miyake, ISEE (Speaker)

Information garnered from historical timbers and wooden artifacts (e.g. houses, barns, ships) can greatly enhance our u...

9:35

The potential of tree-ring drought atlases for dating and provenancing archaeological timbers

15 minutes, 9:35 - 9:50

Part of: Symposium 7 (PT 1). Historical Timbers and Wooden Artifacts as Archives: New Glimpses On Trees, Ecology, and People

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Amphitheatre (SH-2800)

Talk

Mukund Palat Rao, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (Speaker)

Humans have relied on wooden timber material for the construction of buildings, trade, ships, artifacts, and works of art for many millennia. Us...

9:50

Using dendrochronology to determine the production place of wooden artifacts and works of art

15 minutes, 9:50 - 10:05

Part of: Symposium 7 (PT 1). Historical Timbers and Wooden Artifacts as Archives: New Glimpses On Trees, Ecology, and People

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Amphitheatre (SH-2800)

Talk

Marta Domínguez-Delmás, Rijksmuseum (Speaker)

Dendrochronology is a well-established science used to determine the date of wood from cultural heritage objects, and often, to infer the geogra...

10:20

Carbon-14 spikes caused by solar energetic particle events

15 minutes, 10:20 - 10:35

Part of: Symposium 7 (PT 1). Historical Timbers and Wooden Artifacts as Archives: New Glimpses On Trees, Ecology, and People

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Amphitheatre (SH-2800)

Talk

Fusa Miyake, ISEE (Speaker)

Carbon-14 (14C) is produced via a nuclear reaction between the atmosphere and cosmic rays. Although the main source of 14C is galactic cosmic ra...

11:00

Symposium 7 (PT 2). Historical Timbers and Wooden Artifacts as Archives: New Glimpses On Trees, Ecology, and People

1 hour 15 minutes, 11:00 - 12:15

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Amphitheatre (SH-2800)

Talk

Caroline Leland, William Paterson University (Moderator)

Maegen Rochner, University of Louisville (Moderator)

Marta Domínguez-Delmás, Rijksmuseum (Moderator)

Neil Pederson, Harvard Forest (Moderator)

Juliette Taieb, Archéo. Environnementales CNRS/Univ. Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Speaker)

Duncan Christie, Universidad Austral de Chile (Speaker)

Carol Griggs, Cornell Tree Ring Laboratory (Speaker)

Eileen Kuhl, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Speaker)

Greg King, University of Alberta (Speaker)

Information garnered from historical timbers and wooden artifacts (e.g. houses, barns, ships) can greatly enhance our u...

Dating of Alaskan Neo-Inuit architectural timbers (11-13th): wiggle-matching and oxygen isotope cross-dating

15 minutes, 11:00 - 11:15

Part of: Symposium 7 (PT 2). Historical Timbers and Wooden Artifacts as Archives: New Glimpses On Trees, Ecology, and People

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Amphitheatre (SH-2800)

Talk

Juliette Taieb, Archéo. Environnementales CNRS/Univ. Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Speaker)

In Northwestern Alaska, well-preserved architectural timbers from coastal Neo-Inuit archaeological sites can be used to document the climatic va...

12:30

Poster Session

2 hours, 12:30 - 14:30

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Salle polyvalente (SH-4800)

Posters

15:15

General Session (Dendroclimatology, PT4) (rescheduled)

2 hours, 15:15 - 17:15

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Classroom (SH-3420)

Talk

Inga K. Homfeld, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Speaker)

Rob Wilson, University of St Andrews (Speaker)

Justin Maxwell, Indiana University (Speaker)

Frederick Reinig, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Speaker)

Philippa Higgins, University of New South Wales (Speaker)

Valérie Daux, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement / Université de Versailles Saint Quentin (Speaker)

Matthew Therrell, University of Alabama (Speaker)

Stockton Maxwell, Radford University (Chair)

Grant Harley, University of Idaho (Chair)

18:30

TRS-Awards ceremony & FREE Pre-Dining cocktail

2 hours 30 minutes, 18:30 - 21:00

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Agora Hydro-Québec (CO-R500)

This is a mandatory (!) .... and FREE (!!) cocktail & award ceremony (!!!)(in replacement of the Banquet formula)->-&...

Thursday 30 June, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

8:45

A tipping point for tropical tree longevity (Keynote presentation)

30 minutes, 8:45 - 9:15

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Amphitheatre (SH-2800)

Keynote

Giuliano Locosselli, Institute of Environmental Research (Keynote speaker)

How old are tropical trees? This fundamental question has long driven the curiosity of laymen and scientists. But only recently, a great number ...

9:20

General Session (Proxies and models)

1 hour 30 minutes, 9:20 - 10:50

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Salle polyvalente (SH-4800)

Talk

Jan Esper, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Speaker)

Feng Wang, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (Speaker)

Jeanne Rezsöhazy, Université catholique de Louvain (Speaker)

Max Torbenson, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Speaker)

Arian Correa-Diaz, Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales Agricolas y Pecuarias (Speaker)

Guillermo Gea-Izquierdo, INIA-CSIC (Chair)

Camille Lepage, Geotop (Chair)

Symposium 8 (PT 1). Dendrochronological progress in tropical Americas

1 hour 30 minutes, 9:20 - 10:50

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Amphitheatre (SH-2800)

Talk

Laia Andreu-Hayles, Columbia University (Moderator)

María Eugenia Ferrero, IANIGLA-CONICET Argentina (Moderator)

Giuliano Locosselli, Institute of Environmental Research (Moderator)

Kevin Anchukaitis, University of Arizona (Moderator)

Clara Rodriguez Morata, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (Moderator)

Daigard Ricardo Ortega Rodriguez, University of Sao Paulo (Speaker)

Arturo Pacheco Solana, Tree Ring Lab Columbia University (Speaker)

Milena Veiga, University of Sao Paulo (Speaker)

Emanuele Ziaco, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Speaker)

Ginette Ticse, Universidad Continental (Speaker)

Mariano Morales, IANIGLA-CONICET Argentina (Speaker)

Dendrochronological archives in the tropics of the Americas have been under-studied for a long time....

Multiproxy approaches to understanding the formation of tree rings in tropical species: exploring anatomical, physical a…

7 minutes, 9:20 - 9:27

Part of: Symposium 8 (PT 1). Dendrochronological progress in tropical Americas

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Amphitheatre (SH-2800)

Talk

Daigard Ricardo Ortega Rodriguez, University of Sao Paulo (Speaker)

Methodological advances in the latest years have opened new perspectives for dendrochonological studies by facilitating the visualization, delim...

9:25

Using wood autofluorescence to explore the diversity of wood anatomy in the tropics and improve tree-ring visualization

7 minutes, 9:28 - 9:35

Part of: Symposium 8 (PT 1). Dendrochronological progress in tropical Americas

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Amphitheatre (SH-2800)

Talk

Milena Veiga, University of Sao Paulo (Speaker)

Exploring new study sites and potential species is still a fundamental step in tropical dendrochronology. The results of exploratory field campa...

9:35

Advances in quantitative wood anatomy and radiocarbon dating to better assess climate sensitivity in the Andean Tropics

7 minutes, 9:35 - 9:42

Part of: Symposium 8 (PT 1). Dendrochronological progress in tropical Americas

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Amphitheatre (SH-2800)

Talk

Arturo Pacheco Solana, Tree Ring Lab Columbia University (Speaker)

Tropical regions are generally characterized by dynamic ecosystems where the abundant availability of energy and resources allows for an almost ...

9:40

Wood anatomy of Puerto Rican trees: an ecological archive without tree-rings

7 minutes, 9:43 - 9:50

Part of: Symposium 8 (PT 1). Dendrochronological progress in tropical Americas

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Amphitheatre (SH-2800)

Talk

Emanuele Ziaco, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Speaker)

In tropical environments of central America, tree-ring forming species are rare to find, especially in areas with pronounced aseasonality, but w...

11:00

Symposium 4. Dendrogeochemistry ‘moving beyond potential’

1 hour 15 minutes, 11:00 - 12:15

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Salle polyvalente (SH-4800)

Talk

Adam Csank, University of Nevada, Reno (Moderator)

Valérie Daux, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement / Université de Versailles Saint Quentin (Moderator)

Soumaya Belmecheri, Laboratory of Tree Ring Reserch (Moderator)

Steven Voelker, Michigan Technological University (Moderator)

Alienor Lavergne, University of Reading (UK) (Moderator)

Fabio Gennaretti, Uqat (Speaker)

Max Berkelhammer, University of Illinois at Chicago (Speaker)

Heather Haines, The University of New South Wales (Speaker)

Trevor Porter, University of Toronto Mississauga (Speaker)

In their book chapter in 2011 Gagen et al. (2011) highlighted the need for stable isotope de...

Time delays between environmental forcing and isotopic signatures of tree-rings

15 minutes, 11:00 - 11:15

Part of: Symposium 4. Dendrogeochemistry ‘moving beyond potential’

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Salle polyvalente (SH-4800)

Talk

Fabio Gennaretti, Uqat (Speaker)

The use of multiple data from tree-rings, including isotopic ratios and xylogenesis monitoring, can enhance our interpretations on tree function...

11:30

Detecting SEP events of varying magnitude by their 14C concentration in Southern Hemisphere and Equatorial tree rings

15 minutes, 11:30 - 11:45

Part of: Symposium 4. Dendrogeochemistry ‘moving beyond potential’

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Salle polyvalente (SH-4800)

Talk

Heather Haines, The University of New South Wales (Speaker)

Solar Energetic Particle (SEP) events cause an increase in atmospheric radiocarbon (14C) concentration.14C spikes in 774-775 and 993-994 CE have...

13:25

Short fire intervals and long tree ring chronologies in the eastern Canadian taiga (Keynote presentation)

35 minutes, 13:25 - 14:00

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Amphitheatre (SH-2800)

Keynote

Dominique Arseneault, Université du Québec à Rimouski (Keynote speaker)

A gap of millennial tree-ring data suitable for dendroclimatology has long been evident in the North American bo...

14:05

Landscape influences on the oxygen isotope of tree rings within a watershed in the western U.S.

15 minutes, 14:05 - 14:20

Part of: Symposium 3. Ecophysiological interpretations of stable isotopes in dendroecology

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Amphitheatre (SH-2800)

Talk

Jia Hu, University of Arizona (Speaker)

Climate change across the western US has increased air temperature, resulting in decreased snow and lengthening of the summer drought. Recent st...

Symposium 3. Ecophysiological interpretations of stable isotopes in dendroecology

1 hour 45 minutes, 14:05 - 15:50

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Amphitheatre (SH-2800)

Talk

Paul Szejner, Instituto de Geología Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (Moderator)

Alienor Lavergne, University of Reading (UK) (Moderator)

Steven Voelker, Michigan Technological University (Moderator)

Rossella Guerrieri, University of Bologna (Moderator)

Adam Csank, University of Nevada, Reno (Moderator)

Jia Hu, University of Arizona (Speaker)

Kinzie Bailey, The University of Arizona (Speaker)

Marco Lehmann, WSL Birmensdorf (Speaker)

Soumaya Belmecheri, Laboratory of Tree Ring Reserch (Speaker)

Brandon Strange, University of Arizona (Speaker)

Laia Andreu-Hayles, Columbia University (Speaker)

The interpretation of stable isotopes in a dendroecological framework can provide powerfu...

14:35

The phylogenetic impact on hydrogen isotopes in sugars and cellulose of woody plant species

15 minutes, 14:35 - 14:50

Part of: Symposium 3. Ecophysiological interpretations of stable isotopes in dendroecology

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Amphitheatre (SH-2800)

Talk

Marco Lehmann, WSL Birmensdorf (Speaker)

Hydrogen isotope ratios in tree ring cellulose (δ2HC) have been recognized as a potential proxy for plant-climate interactions, plant physiology...

15:05

Global trends and drivers of photosynthetic carbon isotope discrimination in trees

15 minutes, 15:05 - 15:20

Part of: Symposium 3. Ecophysiological interpretations of stable isotopes in dendroecology

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Amphitheatre (SH-2800)

Talk

Soumaya Belmecheri, Laboratory of Tree Ring Reserch (Speaker)

Under elevated CO2, photosynthetic carbon isotope discrimination is expected to increase in response to photosynthesis stimulation. While this r...

17:40

The other Montréal. From the River to the Mountain; a first discovery of the city

1 hour 50 minutes, 17:40 - 19:30

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Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Salle polyvalente (SH-4800)

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