G-4  Doing Science with Tree Rings
 The Bristlecone Pine Resource Page

Below you can refer to all of the SKELETON PLOTS & RING-WIDTH INDICES PLOTS
that you are working with in the G-4 Assignments:

Online versions of the materials used in class:

• Photos and Brief Description for the 5 Sites

• Skeleton Plot Masters for the 5 Sites
  (with Frost Ring Years marked)

• Ring-Width Indices for the 5 Sites

• List of Volcanic Eruptions
  (to determine possible eruption/frost ring linkages)

 

Want to learn more??? INTERESTING BCP TOPICS & LINKS Some BCP-related topics & links to investigate:
THE BCP COLLECTION Learn about the UA Tree-Ring Lab's unparalleled BCP collection in this article:  Lost and Found: The Bristlecone Pine Collection [pdf] learn about the  dedicated BCP field volunteers & how a really old frost ring at the Methuselah Walk site was found!	SIGNIFICANT BCP TREES Find out what's significant about these specially named BCP trees and look for more info about them in the links below:  Methuselah Tree, Patriarch Tree, and Prometheus Tree Find out about "The Martyred One" and other unique BCP trees
REFLECTIONS ON PRESERVATION OF BCP Reflections Around a Mutilated Tree [pdf] for the unabashed Tree-Hugger!	POETRY ABOUT A BCP TREE Read British poet Roger McGough's  poem "The Oldest Tree on Earth . . ." Any poets or  creative writers in the class?
THE HUNT TO CLOSE "THE GAP" Bristlecone work raises chances of bridging gap [pdf]More on "the gap":  Laboratory of Tree-Ring research fills weather record gaps How far back in time can we go with BCP?	ABOUT ROCKY MTS BCP The Oldest Known Rocky Mountain Bristlecone Pines (Pinus aristata Engelmm.) Dendrochronology of Bristlecone Pine (Pinus aristata Engelm.) in Colorado Learn more about the ecology of  these neat trees!
FROST RING ,VOLCANOES & ARCHAEOLOGY Is there a link between BCP's and the ancient Minoan civilization of the Aegean Sea?   [pdf] Read the original frost ring paper:  "Frost rings in trees as records of major volcanic eruptions" [pdf] Where the frost ring & volcano connection first came from & Dr H's role in it.	THE ORIGINAL "MR BRISTLECONE" Find out who Edmund Schulman was, then read Schulman's classic 1954 paper on "Longevity under Adversity in Conifers" The scientist who first "discovered" the importance of these amazing trees

MORE INTERESTING BCP LINKS - Explore!

West & East --Two kinds of BCP:  Pinus longaeva & Pinus aristata
Learn more about them at these links:

Pinus aristata
http://www.conifers.org/pi/pin/aristata.htm
http://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/plants/tree/pinari/all.html

Pinus longaeva
http://www.conifers.org/pi/pin/longaeva.htm

The Ancient Bristlecone Pine website: http://www.sonic.net/bristlecone/intro.html  

NOVA Online:  The Methuselah Tree  
Explore the Methuselah Grove   http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/methuselah/explore.html

"Wisdom of the Ancients" (a narrative about bristlecone pine trees written for the general public (children and adults) by Dr. Hal Fritts, emeritus professor of the UA's Laboratory of Tree Ring Research)  pdf file

OpenRoad.TV: Bristlecone Pine Ancient Forest (with a video)
http://www.openroad.tv/index.php?categoryid=16&p25_id=44

Digital Desert: Bristlecone Pine Forest:  http://digital-desert.com/bristlecone-pine-forest/  (lots of photos)

A General Tree-Ring Site -- LOTS of info about tree rings of all kinds here!
Ultimate Tree-Ring Webpages http://web.utk.edu/~grissino/