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Birmensdorfer Tree-ring Lectures
Programme
Tree-Ring Lectures - Scientific talks and presentations given by WSL scientists and staff, typically a 2-hour monthly meeting
Special Invited Tree-Ring Lectures - Organized ad hoc and ad libitum! Invited guest lectures given by scientists, students, guests, visitors in the labs who are not present to give a talk during a regularly scheduled Tree-Ring Lecture
Tree-Ring Spring's Event - A springtime event, at Birmensdorf or surroundings
Tree-Ring Summer Meeting - A one- or half-a-day scientific meeting dealing in depth with one topic, finishing with a BBQ in the WSL gardens
Tree-Ring Fall Excursion - A one- or two-day scientific excursion of the whole tree-ring community with talks and presentations on research achievements or ongoing projects in the region
Tree-Ring November Journal Club - A half-a-day presentation of the most influential papers published by not-WSL staff in the different fields of tree- ring related sciences during the past year, chosen by selected WSL scientists and students
Tree-Ring December's Forum - A discussion among WSL scientists on hot and emerging issues in treering science, moderated and including invited talks and a panel discussion or not, concluding into the traditional Dendro X-mas Party
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Audience
WSL Dendrosciences Group’s scientific and technical staff, WSL tree-ring scientists, PhD students, Master students, WSL scientists, tree-ring interested scientists and students working in the Zurich area (e.g., ETHZ, PSI, UZH) and in Switzerland or European countries (although we don't believe that people from overseas will run, swim and fly to these meetings, of course, scientists from other parts of the world are warmly welcome too!).
Chair
Each meeting will be chaired by a WSL scientist depending on the topic and willingness.
Proposals for meetings....
.... are welcome!
Language
English preferred.
Scientific Committee
Dr. Paolo Cherubini, Dr. Patrick Fonti, Dr. Holger Gärtner, Dr. Kerstin Treydte, Dr. Georg von Arx
Organisation
Dr. Paolo Cherubini, Dr. Georg von Arx
Past lectures
April 18th, 2023
Paolo Cherubini (WSL): Tree rings and volcanic eruptions: How could trees predict the 2002 flank eruption on Mt. Etna?
March 22nd, 2023
Ulf Büntgen (University of Cambridge, Masaryk University, CzechGlobe, WSL): In praise of archives (and an open mind)
February 22nd, 2023
Stefan Klesse (WSL): Using long time-series information to better interpret extreme event impacts on tree growth
November 22nd, 2022
Rolf Siegwolf, Matthias Saurer (WSL): Book Launch: Stable Isotopes in Tree Rings: Inferring Physiological, Climatic and Environmental Responses
June 9th, 2022
Rob Wilson (University of St Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom): Elevation transects and their importance for understanding tree climate response and improving historical dating: A Case Study from Scotland
May 3rd, 2022
Brendan M. Buckley (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades NY, USA): A Tree Ring Odyssey: Three Decades in Southeast Asia
April 28th 2022
Isabel Dorado-Liñán (Dpto. de Sistemas y Recursos Naturales Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain): Jet stream position explains regional anomalies in European beech forest productivity and tree growth
March 18th, 2022
Virginia Ruiz-Villanueva & Javier del Hoyo Gibaja (Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics Universitè de Lausanne): Disentangling the dynamics of large wood in rivers through their tree-rings
December 7th, 2021
Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira (Conservation Ecology Center Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute Front Royal, Virginia, USA): Joint effects of climate, tree size, and year on annual tree growth derived from tree-ring records of ten globally distributed forests
November 23rd 2021
John D. Marshall (SLU Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Umeå, Sweden):Growing up and growing old: tree-ring isotopes tell us the life history of a tree
August 25th 2021
Jonathan Barichivich (Laboratory des Sciences du Climat et de L'Environnement (LSCE)): Tree-ring constraints for global land surface models
July 12th 2021
Frederick Reinig (University of Mainz): Dating the Laacher See eruption
June 8th, 2021
Ulf Büntgen (University of Cambridge): The influence of decision-making in tree ring-based climate reconstructions
April, 15th 2021
Qi-Bin Zhang und Ouya Fang: Resilience of tree growth to climatic extremes
March, 24th 2021
J. Julio Camarero: The drought-dieback-death conundrum in forests: what can tree rings offer?
March, 5th 2021
Samuele Moretti & Erika Sabella: Olive Quick Decline Syndrome in Apulia (southern Italy): How Xylella fastidiosa affects olive wood anatomy and tree-ring physiology
February, 23rd 2021