Counting back the rings might line up with a hurricane that wiped out all the trees around it, or a logging expedition from which the tree was spared. There’s a lot of history to be found in trees.

Examining a tree ring core sample. CBS News "If you're trying to look at people in the past through time, tree rings give you a way to ...

Ask any second grader what you can do with the rings on a tree, and they'll respond, "Learn the age of the tree!" They're not wrong, but dendrochronology—the dating of trees based on patterns in ...

How do you determine the age of a tree? Just count the rings, of course! One ring equals one year of growth. If you’ve ever stumbled upon a tree stump you may have even done it yourself. But if ...

In 2012, the lab moved into a larger building to accommodate its growing mission and number of researchers – now some 70 or so – and to unpack its vast collection of tree rings and core samples.

Tree Story Valerie Trouet Johns Hopkins Univ., $27. Once you look at trees through the eyes of a dendrochronologist, you never quite see the leafy wonders the same way again.

Tree rings can help us learn about past climate. ... uses an increment borer to core a dead western red cedar at Magness Memorial Tree Farm in Sherwood, Ore., Wednesday, ...

Tree rings reveal a climate record deep into the past. Pixabay. ... Rather, scientists remove an increment core for each sample, each slightly narrower than a pencil.

A recent project conducted in the basin by members of the UA Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research to reconstruct historic stream flow has expanded the known record to the year ...

And the tree ring building is round, to architecturally represent a tree. It felt like a perfect merging of architecture, shape, sound, data, wood material and science.

The oxygen and hydrogen isotopes record information on the water used by the tree which indicates the amount of summer rainfall and changes in large-scale atmospheric circulation.