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Trees – “Giant Organic Recording Devices”

Posted on by saucyindexer
Wood samples for research at the Laboratory of Tree Ring Research at the University of Arizona. Photo: Adriana Zehbrauskas for The New York Times.

Today’s New York Times has an interesting article about dendrochronology and related fields of research.

You can read the article here.

–Suzanne Ellison

9 thoughts on “Trees – “Giant Organic Recording Devices””

  1. Please do not reference New York Times articles/links. They only allow you to see a very few per month and then they interrupt you after reading the first screen and insist that you subscribe to their online news service.

    1. counterpoint: Please reference all the wonderful information you find no matter what the source. We’re adults and can click links selectively.

    4. Very much a chip (or shaving) on my shoulder–clicking a link to the NYT is like pulling out all your teeth.

  2. Dendrochronology is all well and good, but please find information on dendrophrenology — the study of bumps on tree burls.

  3. This bit is crazy:
    ‘Trees hold other valuable information as well. Oxygen isotope analysis, for example, has unlocked the source of the water that a tree took up centuries ago and can determine whether it was from a hurricane or a severe thunderstorm’
    And solar flares? wow
    With all the correlation to climate change, I wonder how the quality of wood is changing for us? We’ve already experienced vanished species for over deforestation. But are the trees health and thereby our craft also suffering?

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