Coastal maritime forests in northeastern USA are mostly fragmented and currently threatened by climate change. This study focuses on American holly (Ilex opaca) trees located in the coastal maritime forests of Sandy Hook, N.J. and Fire Island, N.Y. to better understand how vulnerable and resilient these forests are to future climate scenarios. There are few published studies that use tree-ring methods in the maritime forests of N.J. and dendrochronological research on holly species has jus...

Free, in person and onlineWe will hold a practical, skills-based workshop introducing openDendro -- an open-source framework of the base analytic software tools used in dendrochronology in both the R and Python programming languages. openDendro is a new unified set of tree-ring analysis tools in open-source environments that provides the necessary baseline for dendro...

Information garnered from historical timbers and wooden artifacts (e.g. houses, barns, ships) can greatly enhance our understanding of human, ecological, and climate history, especially in regions where few old-growth forests and trees remain, tree longevity is relatively short (less than 300-400 years), and environmental conditions break down wood rather quickly, like in mesic to wet regions. Over the last decade plus, the application of tree-ring techniques on wo...

(by bus, max 92 people)Designed for visitors and newcomers, the tour is based on the pleasure...