George Rhee

Professor

University of Nevada Las Vegas

Participates in 2 items

Sessions in which George Rhee participates

Tuesday 28 June, 2022

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

13:30

General Session (Dendroclimatology, PT3)

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

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

Talk

Daniela Granato, University of Arkansas (Speaker)

María Eugenia Ferrero, IANIGLA-CONICET Argentina (Speaker)

Christine Lucas, Universidad de la Republica - Uruguay (Speaker)

George Rhee, University of Nevada Las Vegas (Speaker)

Ze'ev Gedalof, University of Guelph (Speaker)

Priyadarshini Parsons O'Brien, University of New South Wales (Speaker)

Grant Harley, University of Idaho (Chair)

Matthew Bekker, Brigham Young University (Chair)

14:15

Estimating Uncertainties in the Multidecadal Variability of Colorado River Flows from Treering Data

15 minutes, 14:15 - 14:30

Part of: General Session (Dendroclimatology, PT3)

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

Talk

George Rhee, University of Nevada Las Vegas (Speaker)

The Colorado river supplies water to forty million people. The river system in crisis due to; an ongoing twenty year drought, a historical overa...

Sessions in which George Rhee attends

Monday 27 June, 2022

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

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

Tuesday 28 June, 2022

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

9:20

General Session (Dendroclimatology, PT1)

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

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

Talk

Nicole Davi, William Paterson University & Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University (Speaker)

Juliana De Sousa Nogueira, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (CZU) (Speaker)

Alex Pace, Concordia University (Speaker)

Caroline Leland, William Paterson University (Speaker)

Raphaël Hébert, Alfred-Wegener-Institute (Speaker)

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

Jim Speer, Indiana State University (Chair)

9:35

400-year multi-parameter reconstruction of Carpathian temperatures from tree rings

15 minutes, 9:35 - 9:50

Part of: General Session (Dendroclimatology, PT1)

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

Talk

Juliana De Sousa Nogueira, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (CZU) (Speaker)

Although numerous proxy-based climate reconstructions have been developed and despite the prevalence of relatively long instrumental records thr...

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...

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...

General Session (Dendroclimatology, PT2)

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

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

Talk

Edurne Martinez del Castillo, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Speaker)

Alexandre Florent Nolin, Uqat (Speaker)

Elizabeth Campbell, Canadian Forest Service (Speaker)

Matthew Trumper, University of Minnesota (Speaker)

Valerie Trouet, University of Arizona (Speaker)

Jim Speer, Indiana State University (Chair)

Fabio Gennaretti, Uqat (Chair)

12:00

800 years of summer European-North Atlantic jet stream variability and its impact on climate extremes and human systems

15 minutes, 12:00 - 12:15

Part of: General Session (Dendroclimatology, PT2)

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

Talk

Valerie Trouet, University of Arizona (Speaker)

Climate extremes are driven by a combination of thermodynamical and dynamical factors. In Europe, the primary dynamical driver of summer climate...

14:45

Potential growth scenarios for boreal forests with the ecophysiological model MAIDEN

15 minutes, 14:45 - 15:00

Part of: General Session (Ecophysiology)

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

Talk

Marceau Badaroux, Uqat (Speaker)

In the context of climate and environmental change, the boreal forest is subject to potential changes in structure and function. Stand-level phy...

15:15

Historical diversity of fire regimes across Arizona and New Mexico

15 minutes, 15:15 - 15:30

Part of: General Session (Dendroecology, PT2)

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

Talk

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

Fire regimes shaped forest ecosystems for centuries in the southwestern United States prior to a century of fire exclusion. Tree-ring fire histo...

General Session (Dendroclimatology, PT4)

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)

16:45

Tree-ring reconstructions of streamflow variability for Southeastern U.S. Interstate Rivers

15 minutes, 16:45 - 17:00

Part of: General Session (Dendroclimatology, PT4)

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

Talk

Matthew Therrell, University of Alabama (Speaker)

We report on research to develop quantitative, annually resolved, multi-century, tree-ring reconstructions of streamflow for 12 interstate river...

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

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

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

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

Talk

Claire Depardieu, Université Laval (Moderator)

Martin Girardin, Canadian Forest Service (Moderator)

Steve Chhin, West Virginia University (Moderator)

Philippe Rozenberg, INRAE (Moderator)

Jodi Axelson, Lands (Speaker)

Etienne Robert, Université du Québec à Montréal (Speaker)

Current and projected changes in climate are estimated to be from 10 to 100 times faster than the natural adaptive capacity of trees whose gener...

11:00

General Session (Dendrogeosystems)

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

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

Talk

Scott St. George, University of Minnesota (Speaker)

Troy Nixon, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (Speaker)

Dave Sauchyn, University of Regina (Speaker)

Stefan Klesse, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL (Speaker)

Ignacio Hermoso de Mendoza, Geotop (Chair)

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

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)

Thursday 30 June, 2022

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

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)

IPCC Paleoclimate Streamlining: An alternative Perspective on Common Era Temperature Variability

15 minutes, 9:20 - 9:35

Part of: General Session (Proxies and models)

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

Talk

Jan Esper, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Speaker)

The assessment of pre-instrumental climate variability during the Common Era (CE) has been a key element of IPCC reports and was recently emphas...

9:35

Filling the North American gap with robust and temperature-sensitive millennial tree ring density data

15 minutes, 9:35 - 9:50

Part of: General Session (Proxies and models)

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

Talk

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

"Maximum latewood density (MXD) is the most sensitive proxy for reconstructing temperature variations over past centuries to millennia. However,...

10:05

The use of hydrological model output as targets in tree ring-based streamflow reconstructions

15 minutes, 10:05 - 10:20

Part of: General Session (Proxies and models)

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

Talk

Max Torbenson, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Speaker)

Tree-ring records have been used extensively to reconstruct past streamflow variability. Annually resolved estimates for several centuries...

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...