I had a great time talking with Mira Shah for her podcast “Signals of Change”.
Category: Current Projects
Freedom in Ridge Prairie
Had a nice article come out recently in Illinois Antiquity that includes some tree-ring dating of a log building associated with an Underground Railroad site in western IL. If you read the article you will notice that they call the structure the “poison shed” and it was pretty gross, but surprisingly I was able to date many of the samples, though were weren’t able to get a lot. Full Article
Hopewell Church
We collected samples from the Hopewell Baptist Church in hopes of using tree rings to date the structure. It is believed that it was built perhaps as early as 1843.
More sinker logs
We recently went to Micanopy, FL and got some great sinkerlog samples from the fine folks at Goodwin Lumber Co. These samples will help us extend baldcypress chronologies in the southeast back thousands of years.
Xylogenesis study
Zach shows Mahsa and Shelby the process for collecting microcores for our study on baldcypress weekly growth.
Coring baldcypress in the Sipsey River
Went with the DRL gang plus folks from ecohydrology.ua.edu to core baldcypress for Zach Foley’s QWA project, and got pretty muddy, but got a great collection for his project looking at development of false rings.
Great time coring southern Alabama log buildings!
Had a great time meeting up with colleagues (@MRochner86; @dendrotrog; @L_tulipifera et al.) to sample some southern Alabama log buildings the other day. We will use these collections to increase the length of regional long leaf pine chronologies and hopefully provide some information about the construction history of these early Alabama structures. We cored log structures at the Wehle Tract (an Alabama Forever Wild property), the Loachapoka Pioneer Park, a private residence in Montgomery and Popes Tavern and the Karsner-Carroll […]
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St Johns River
Went down to Orange County Florida with some undergrad students to investigate potential for old bald cypress on the St Johns River. Found some nice old bald cypress and about a million alligators!
Ancient Red cedar on the Tombigbee
Saw some really nice old red cedar along the chalk bluffs above the Tombigbee, near Epes, Alabama. They are near the historical site of Fort Tombecbe. It would be interesting to see if any were around when the fort was operational. They certainly look old enough to have been witness to that era.
University of Alabama Undergraduate research
DRL-member Zach Foley presents his research on eastern hemlock at the University of Alabama UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH & CREATIVE ACTIVITY CONFERENCE. As part of a larger study to determine the climate (temperature) signal of eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis), we sampled eastern hemlock at two sites: Savage Gulf state natural area in Tennessee and Bankhead national forest in Alabama. In Alabama in particular eastern hemlock has the potential to have an especially strong climate signal due to their location at the very […]