Annual Conference of the

Association for Tree-Ring Research

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Program
 

 
Sunday, 27.04.2008

16:30 - 18:30 Registration (COS Hotel, Bronislawa Czech str. 1, Zakopane)

19:00 - 22:00 ICE breaker (COS Hotel, Bronislawa Czech str. 1, Zakopane)
 
Monday, 28.04.2008

8:00 - 9:00 Registration (Tatrzanski National Park, Chlubinskiego 42a, Zakopane)

9:00 - 9:20 Opening

9:20 - 9:40 Ryszard J. Kaczka
 Dendrochronological researches in Carpathians carried out at the University of Silesia

9:40 - 10:00 Coffee-break

10:00 - 10:40 Rob Wilson Invited Speaker
 Bringing the “climate” back to British tree-rings

10:40 - 11:00 Martin Wilmking, Andrew Bunn
 Quo vadis dendroclimatology?

11:00 - 11:20 Didzis Elferts, Iluta Luce, Zane Strike, Guntis Brumelis
 Comparison of radial growth response to precipitation and temperatures between dry and wet Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) sites in Eastern Latvia

11:20 - 11:40 Coffee-break

11:40 - 12:00 Matthew Brookhouse
 Gums and plums: recent progress towards a dendroclimatological network in the Australian Alps

12:00 - 12:20 Johannes  Schultz, B. Neuwirth, J. Löffler and M. Winiger
 Circulation patterns as origin of negative pointer years from Central European tree-rings

12:20 - 12:40 Szymon Bijak
 North Atlantic Oscillation signal in pointer years of oak in Poland

12:40 - 13:00 U. Büntgen, R. Brázdil, D. Frank and J. Esper
 Three centuries of Central European drought dynamics

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 14:20 Akira Kagawa
 Physiological processes of carbon isotope signal transfer from leaves to tree rings

14:20 - 14:40 Sonia Simard, Hubert Morin, Cornelia Krause
 Experiment on carbon and oxygen isotope records of artificial defoliation

14:40 - 15:00 Slawomira Pawelczyk, Anna Pazdur, Malgorzata Szczepanek, Tatjana Boettger, Marika Haupt, Marek Krapiec, Elzbieta Krapiec-Szychowska
 Carbon, oxygen and hydrogen isotopes in tree rings - a climate and anthropogenic impact study

15:00 - 15:20 Coffee-break

15:20 - 15:40 Rochelle Campbell, Iain Robertson, Danny McCarroll, Neil Loader, Håkan Grudd, Bjorn Gunnarson
 Calibrating proxy-climate relationships in central Sweden using stable isotopes in tree rings

15:40 - 16:00 Ingo Heinrich, Ramzi Touchan, Kathrin Weidner and Gerhard Helle
 Carbon and oxygen stable isotope signals in Juniperus excelsa from Anatolia, Turkey – preliminary results

16:00 - 16:20 Erin R. McMurry, Michael C. Stambaugh, Richard P. Guyette
 Towards a 14000 Year Oak Chronology: Methods, Progress, and Challenges

16:20 - 16:40 Michael C. Stambaugh, Richard P. Guyette, Erin R. McMurry
 Towards a 14000 year oak chronology: preliminary results of Holocene climate variability in the Central U.S.

16:40
- 17:00 Coffee-break

17:00
- 18:30 Podium discussion Myths & facts of the “Divergence Problem” in tree-ring research

18:30
- 19:30 ATR meeting

Tuesday, 29.04.2008

8:30
- 9:10 Jozica Gricar, Tom Levanič Invited Speaker
 Dendroclimatological aspects and wood formation dynamics of sessile oak in 2007
 
9:10
- 9:30 L. Moser, P. Fonti, D. Frank, U. Büntgen, J. Franzen and J. Esper
 Climatic controls on intra-annual growth variations in larch and spruce along an altitudinal gradient in the Lötschental, Switzerland

9:30
- 9:50 Anaïs Boura, Elise Tancoigne and Dario De Franceschi
 Cambium activity and phenology in temperate dicotyledon trees

9:50
- 10:10 Parveen Kumar Chhetri
 Tree Ring and Climate Change Study in Nepal-A Case Study of Langtang National Park

10:10
- 10:30 Coffee-break

10:30 - 11:00 Poster presentation

11:00 - 11:20 Mauro Bernabei, Claudio Pollini, Nicola Macchioni
 Is it really possible to date old chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.) timber structures in Italy? A case of study

11:20
- 11:40 Wolfgang Beck
 Autocorrelation and sensitivity in tree ring series – opportunities for biological interpretations

11:40
- 12:00 Coffee-break

12:00 - 12:20 Marc D. Abrams, Sarah E. Johnson
 Age and growth rate relationships: Are young trees growing faster than their predecessors?

12:20
- 12:40 Tommy H.G. Wils, I. Robertson, Z. Eshetu, R. Touchan, M. Koprowski, U.G.W. Sass-Klaassen, N.J. Loader
 Dendrochronology in Ethiopia

12:40 - 13:00 Elisabeth M. R. Robert, Nele Schmitz, James G. Kairo, Hans Beeckman, Nico Koedam
 Hydraulic architecture of Avicennia marina (Forssk.) Vierh. along an ecological gradient in Gazi Bay, Kenya

13:00
- 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 14:20 Ronald M. Visser
 Roman timber transport, trade and tree rings

14:20
- 14:40 Sébastien Durost, Benoît Rossignol, Georges Lambert, Vincent Bernard
 Climat, Gallic War and dendrochronology of oak (Quercus) in the first Century B.C.

14:40
- 15:00 Ilse Boeren, Michael Friedrich, Hans-Peter Stika, Maria Knipping, Manfred Küppers
 Late-glacial fires and water-level increases disturbed a pine forest in Reichwalde, E-Germany

15:00
- 15:20 Coffee-break

15:20
- 15:40 Kaiser Klaus Felix, Schaub Matthias, Kromer Bernd, Talamo Sahra
 Lateglacial environmental changes as reflected in the Swiss pine chronology spanning 1606 years

15:40
- 16:00 Frank Krumm, Momchil Panayotov, Peter Bebi, Heinrich Spiecker
 Natural dynamics in dense, uniform subalpine forests

16:00
- 16:20 G. Gea-Izquierdo, D. Martín-Benito, I. Cañellas
 Dendroecology of Quercus ilex in the Iberian Peninsula

16:20
- 16:40 Coffee-break

16:40 - 17:00 Darío Martín-Benito, Miren del Río, Isabel Cañellas
 Growth reduction of black pine stands associated with defoliation by the pine processionary moth

17:00
- 17:20 Barbaros Yaman
 Comparative wood anatomy of ivy-hosting and non-hosting black alder (Alnus glutinosa Gaertn.)

17:20
- 18:00 Poster session

19:00
- 24:00 Conference dinner

Wednesday, 30.04. 2008

9:00
- 9:20 Tomasz Zielonka, Jan Holeksa, Peter Fleischer
 A tree-ring reconstruction of wind disturbances in mountain mixed forest in the Slovakian Tatras

9:20
- 9:40 Kenjiro Sho, Miklós Kázmér
 A flood ring of Celtis sinensis found in the following year of the 1896 autumn extreme flood of Lake Biwa, Japan

9:40
- 10:00 Jörg Scheithauer, Karsten Grunewald, Gerd Helle, Jürgen König and Björn Günther
 Dendroecological studies on Bosnian Pine (Pirin Mountains, Bulgaria)

10:00 - 10:20 S. Fischer, B. Neuwirth, J. Löffler and M. Winiger
 Effects of various site ecological features on radial growth pattern in North Rhine-Westphalia (W-Germany)

10:20
- 10:40 Anna Cedro, Grzegorz Iszkuło
 Do females differ from males? Dendrochronological study of Taxus baccata

10:40 - 11:00 Coffe break

11:00
- 11:20 Pascale Weber, Lorenz Walthert
 Radial growth of beech at sites with different water and nutrient availability

11:20 - 11:40 Jorge Olivar
 Impact of climatic variation on growth and wood density of young poplar

11:40
- 12:00 Momchil Panayotov, Peter Bebi, Steffan Yurukov, Frank Krumm
 Pinus peuce and Pinus heldreichii tree rings as a key to past mountain climate in Southeastern Europe

12:00
- 12:20 F. Babst, D. Frank, U. Büntgen, D. Nievergelt and J. Esper
 Blue Reflectance – Method and First Results

12:20
- 12:50 Closing words



Main conference program will be accompanied by following events:


1. Pre-conference excursion 26-27.04.2008:
Program of the excursion trip
Registration form
contact: Piotr Owczarek    piotr.owczarek@geogr.uni.wroc.pl, powczarek@wp.pl

2. Pre-conference workshop 24-26.04.2008:
Trees and forests as archives of last millennium climate
Gliwice - Niepolomice Forest, Poland,
organised by GADAM, Department of Radioisotopes, Institute of Physics
Silesian University of Technology
contact: Grzegorz J. Poreba    Grzegorz.Poreba@polsl.pl

3. Podium discussion 28.04.2008.

Please notice that pre-conference excursion and pre-conference workshop are two separete events.

 


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