Greg King

Assistant Professor

University of Alberta

Participates in 3 items

Sessions in which Greg King participates

Tuesday 28 June, 2022

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

13:30

Symposium 5. Applications of dendrochronology in urban environments

1 hour 30 minutes, 13:30 - 15:00

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

Talk

Greg King, University of Alberta (Moderator)

Kaisa Rissanen, Université du Québec à Montréal (Moderator)

Mitchell Bonney, University of Toronto Mississauga (Speaker)

Valentina Vitali, Swiss Federal Research Inst. WSL (Speaker)

Maegen Rochner, University of Louisville (Speaker)

Mareike Hirsch, University of Freiburg (Speaker)

Danielle Martin, Brock University (Speaker)

As of 2020, 56% of the world’s population live in urban areas. These individuals benefit from numerous ecosystem servic...

Wednesday 29 June, 2022

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

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...

12:00

Reconstruction of Precipitation & Lake Levels in the UNESCO Beaver Hills Biosphere

15 minutes, 12:00 - 12:15

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

Greg King, University of Alberta (Speaker)

Over the last 140 years, lakes in the UNESCO Beaver Hills Biosphere, located east of Edmonton, Alberta, have experienced significant water level...

Sessions in which Greg King attends

Monday 27 June, 2022

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

12:15

Lunch Break

1 hour 15 minutes, 12:15 - 13:30

13:30

Workshop. openDendro: Advanced Open-source Tools for Dendrochronology and Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction

4 hours, 13:30 - 17:30

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

Workshop

Andy Bunn, Robertson College (Instructor)

Free, in person and online

17:30

Ice Breaker (free drinks for all)

3 hours, 17:30 - 20:30

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

Talk

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...

9:20

Tree-ring data reject the leading edge-trailing edge hypothesis for species range change

15 minutes, 9:20 - 9:35

Part of: General Session (Dendroecology, PT1)

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

Talk

Margaret Evans, University of Arizona (Speaker)

Climate change poses an existential threat to trees, given our understanding of the importance of climate in shaping their geographic distributi...

Symposium 1 (PT 1). Tree rings from national forest inventories: a timely opportunity to assess tree growth across space and through time

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

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

Talk

Martin Girardin, Canadian Forest Service (Moderator)

Babst Flurin, University of Arizona (Moderator)

R. Justin DeRose, Utah State University (Moderator)

Margaret Evans, University of Arizona (Moderator)

Genaro Gutierrez, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Moderator)

Stefan Klesse, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL (Moderator)

Kelly Heilman, University of Arizona (Speaker)

Guillermo Gea-Izquierdo, INIA-CSIC (Speaker)

Olivier Bouriaud, Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava (Speaker)

Tree-ring time series provide long-term, annually resolved information on the growth of individual trees. However, public tree-ring archives con...

9:50

A 211-year moisture reconstruction in southern Quebec based on snowpack-sensitive trees

15 minutes, 9:50 - 10:05

Part of: General Session (Dendroclimatology, PT1)

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

Talk

Alex Pace, Concordia University (Speaker)

We present a 211-year tree-ring-based reconstruction of the annual mean flow of the Sainte Anne River, Gaspésie, Québec, Canada. The river trave...

10:05

Volcanic Cooling Events: Impacts on Climate and Indigenous Peoples in Northwestern North America

15 minutes, 10:05 - 10:20

Part of: General Session (Dendroclimatology, PT1)

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

Talk

Caroline Leland, William Paterson University (Speaker)

Evidence of volcanic cooling and its human impacts has been described for various regions of the globe over the past several centuries to millen...

10:20

Using dendrochronological data to characterize the spatio-temporal structure of climate variablity

15 minutes, 10:20 - 10:35

Part of: General Session (Dendroclimatology, PT1)

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

Talk

Raphaël Hébert, Alfred-Wegener-Institute (Speaker)

The spatial scale of climate fluctuations, or effective spatial degrees of freedom (ESDOF), depends on the timescale and the forcing: while loca...

10:35

Coffee Break

25 minutes, 10:35 - 11:00

11:00

General Session (New perspectives and developments)

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

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

Talk

James Capshew, Indiana University (Speaker)

Daniel Griffin, University of Minnesota (Speaker)

Milos Rydval, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (Speaker)

Tomás Muñoz-Salazar, Universidad Austral de Chile (Speaker)

Neil Pederson, Harvard Forest (Speaker)

Scott St. George, University of Minnesota (Chair)

Ignacio Hermoso de Mendoza, Geotop (Chair)

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...

12:15

Lunch Break

1 hour 15 minutes, 12:15 - 13:30

15:15

General Session (Dendroecology, PT2)

2 hours, 15:15 - 17:15

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

Talk

Chris Guiterman, NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (Speaker)

Daniela Robles, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (Speaker)

Kelsey Copes-Gerbitz, University of British Columbia (Speaker)

Kira Hoffman, University of British Columbia (Speaker)

Michael Stambaugh, University of Missouri (Speaker)

Tessa Mandra, Harvard Forest (Speaker)

Vanessa Comeau, University of British Columbia (Speaker)

Marcel Kunz, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Speaker)

Jill Harvey, Thompson Rivers University (Chair)

Camille Lepage, Geotop (Chair)

Freshet- and drought-season runoff reconstructions for the Fraser Basin Headwaters, British Columbia, Canada

15 minutes, 15:15 - 15:30

Part of: General Session (Dendroclimatology, PT4)

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

Talk

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

Floods and droughts have recently worsened in the Fraser River Basin (FRB), British Columbia, causing significant impacts to western Canadian ec...

16:30

Dendroprovenancing instream wood at the watershed scale

15 minutes, 16:30 - 16:45

Part of: General Session (Dendrogeochemistry)

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

Talk

Javier del Hoyo Gibaja, University of Lausanne (Speaker)

Dendroprovenance is a discipline usually linked to dendroacheology or wood commercialization; however, other purposes as inferring the origin of...

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

Development of a universal response function to integrate climatic and genetic effects on diameter growth of eastern white pine

15 minutes, 9:20 - 9:35

Part of: Symposium 2. Common garden experiments to evaluate tree adaptation in a changing climate

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

Talk

Steve Chhin, West Virginia University (Speaker)

The main objective of this study was to develop a universal response function to integrate climatic and genetic effects on the diameter growth o...

9:35

A dendrochronological approach to reveal climate sensitivities and productivity of Douglas-fir in a long-term range-wide

15 minutes, 9:35 - 9:50

Part of: Symposium 2. Common garden experiments to evaluate tree adaptation in a changing climate

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

Talk

Jodi Axelson, Lands (Speaker)

In the 1970s, forest geneticists with the British Columbia Forest Service established a number of long-term provenance trials throughout the pro...

9:50

The evolutionary value of tree-ring plasticity in Douglas-fir

15 minutes, 9:50 - 10:05

Part of: Symposium 2. Common garden experiments to evaluate tree adaptation in a changing climate

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

Talk

Philippe Rozenberg, INRAE (Speaker)

Climate change threatens forest trees. Their ability to resist depends on their potential to adapt. Phenotypic plasticity, i.e. the potential fo...

10:05

Coupling tree-ring and timber species analysis to gain insights on forest harvesting and construction techniquesSy

15 minutes, 10:05 - 10:20

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

Darrin Rubino, Hanover College (Speaker)

The Mid-Ohio River Valley’s (USA) rich cultural fabric is preserved in the extant 19th century buildings that dot the landscape. Extensive tree-...

10:20

The use of common gardens and dendroecology to guide assisted gene flow in black spruce

15 minutes, 10:20 - 10:35

Part of: Symposium 2. Common garden experiments to evaluate tree adaptation in a changing climate

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

Talk

Etienne Robert, Université du Québec à Montréal (Speaker)

Assisted gene flow (AGF) may help facilitate tree species’ adaptation to future climatic conditions. When applied to resource-producing species ...

10:35

Coffee Break

25 minutes, 10:35 - 11:00

12:30

Poster Session

2 hours, 12:30 - 14:30

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

Posters

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)

10:35

Coffee Break

25 minutes, 10:35 - 11:00

11:45

Neogene paleotemperature estimates from lignin-methoxy hydrogen isotopes of sub-fossil wood in the Canadian Arctic

15 minutes, 11:45 - 12:00

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

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

Talk

Trevor Porter, University of Toronto Mississauga (Speaker)

Neogene fossil beds in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (CAA) provide a window into past greenhouse intervals and insights on what a future, warm...

12:15

Lunch Break

1 hour 10 minutes, 12:15 - 13:25

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

General Session (Xylogenesis and anatomy)

1 hour 30 minutes, 14:05 - 15:35

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

Talk

Jelena Lange, Charles University (Speaker)

Jiani Gao, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (Speaker)

Roberto Silvestro, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (Speaker)

Valentina Buttò, Université du Québec en Outaouais (Speaker)

Matthew Bekker, Brigham Young University (Chair)

Sepideh Namvar, Geotop (Chair)

15:50

Symposium 6. Advancing (Ameri)Dendro Allyship

1 hour 30 minutes, 15:50 - 17:20

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

Talk

Joe Buck, Cross Timbers Dendro Consulting (Speaker)

Carolyn Copenheaver, Virginia Tech (Speaker)

Nicole Zampieri, Florida State University (Speaker)

Jodi Axelson, Lands (Moderator)

Chris Gentry, Austin Peay State University (Moderator)

Kelsey Copes-Gerbitz, University of British Columbia (Moderator)

Allies have emerged as key enablers of diversity and inclusivity initiatives in the workplace, in professional associat...

17:20

Farewell

10 minutes, 17:20 - 17:30

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

Talk