INTERNATIONAL DENDROECOLOGICAL FIELDWEEK-2006
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Organizer:
Tree Ring
Laboratory at the National University of Mongolia
(Dr. Baatarbileg
Nachin, Leader)
Where:
Holiday camp “Buyant Ukhaa” in Bogd Mountain
near Ulaanbaatar,
Mongolia
When:
3rd to 9th June 2006
Participants
Photo gallery /coming
soon/
What we have done
We are focused on
interrelations between tree growth and site conditions on natural forests as well as on the influence of abiotic
and biotic stresses on tree growth. The group topics and leaders
are
follows:
·
Fire,
Climate, and Human Interactions in the Bogd Mountains, Mongolia
Dr. Peter Brown,
Dr. Jacques Tardif
We are used stand age structure and
fire-scarred trees to document past fire timing and behavior, also we examined
tree-ring
proxy of temperature and drought, tree-ring proxy of river flow, and
significant changes in human institutions /detailed results will be soon/.
–
·
Variations in Climatic factors recorded in trees at different elevations at Bogd
mountain, northern central Mongolia
Dr.
Gordon Jacoby,
Dr.
Neil Pederson
Traditional procedures for dendroclimatology continuously reconsidered
for the better climatic signals
through improved sampling and chronology development techniques. The group were examined effect of site, microsite, tree selection, core selection, and data
stratification. Within the limits of fieldweek time, we tested some of
these effects. We were investigated in the field, sample, describe ecology,
process samples, and did data analysis
/detailed results
will be soon/.
·
Dendrochronological research of the timbers from a Buddhist
Temple the Monastery Dambadarjialin
Dr.
Willy Tegel,
Dr.
Isabel Figueiral
The research aim was dating of timber from a historical building (Buddhist Monastery).
We were got an introduction in following topics:
Sampling and preparing of suitable wood, wood anatomical identification,
measurement of the ring widths, cross-dating and cross correlation of tree ring
patterns by statistical and visual matching, Interpretation and Presentation of
the results /detailed
results will be soon/.
Week Agenda:
Arrival
on afternoon, 3rd
June, Saturday 2006 at the Holiday camp “Buyant Ukhaa”.
4th June, Sunday:
Fieldweek were started with an introduction of tree-ring methods
5th-8th June, Sunday-Thursday:
Field work and data analyses
9th June, Friday:
Each group
were presented their results together with a
poster in the plenary session.
10th June, Saturday
leave
camp.
Contact person:
Mr.
Oyunsanaa Byambasuren
Lecturer,
Department of Forestry
Faculty
of Biology
National University
of Mongolia
210646A,
P.O.B-135, Ulaanbaatar,
Mongolia
Tel/Fax:
+976-99081104/+976-11-320159
email: sanaa@ldeo.columbia.edu, treering@yahoo.com
Partners:
Tree-Ring Society
Mongolian
Academy of Sciences
Tree-Ring Laboratory of Lamont-Doherty Earth
Observatory, Columbia
University
