Collaborative Research: Tree-Ring Based Records of Temperature and Glacial Fluctuation Spanning the Past Two Millennia, Prince William Sound, Alaska

Parker E. Calkin calkin@spot.colorado.edu  (Principal Investigator current)

     Abstract

     The primary objective of this research is to develop a
     continuous tree-ring chronology spanning the past 2000-years from living and
     subfossil wood around Prince William Sound, southern Alaska. This chronology
     will provide an annually resolved record of North Pacific climate for the past
     two-millennia. In addition, development of the long tree-ring record will
     involve cross-dating of trees killed by advances of Columbia and other glaciers
     around Prince William Sound; interpretation of the dates of tree germination
     and death on these glacier forefields will enable glacier fluctuations in the
     region to be reconstructed with decadal precision.