Program

Course Schedule & Programme

Dendrochronology Summer Course • 14 Days of lectures, labs & fieldwork

Format

Lectures • Labs • Field

Tools Highlight

COFECHA • xDateR • ARSTAN • Seascorr

Focus Areas

Dating • Chronologies • Climate/Hydrology

Day 1 — Introduction to Dendrochronology

Lectures Lab

Lect. 1: Cambium Activity and Annual Ring Formation

Lect. 2: Scientific Basis of Dendrochronology: Dating – What Is It? How Is It Done?

Lab 1: Exercise

Day 2 — Field Trip and Sampling Techniques

Field

Lect. 3 (in the field): Site and Tree Selection, Sampling Strategies, and Field Techniques

Day 3 — Tree Ring Fundamentals

Lectures Lab

Lect. 4: What Are Tree Rings? Dating – What It Is and How It Is Done

Lect. 5: Xylem and How It Is Formed

Lab 2: Sample Preparation and Dating Exercise

Day 4 — Tree Ring Measurements & Dendroclimatology

Lectures Lab

Lect. 6: What Can We Measure? – State of Tree Ring (Total Width, Earlywood Width, Latewood Width, Cell Sizes, Density, Isotopes, Other Chemistry), Trauma (Scars, Anomalous Anatomy such as Frost Rings, Light Rings, White Rings, etc.)

Lect. 7: Introduction to Dendroclimatology and Case Study

Lab 3: Sampling Preparation, Dating Exercise, and Dating the Prepared Samples

Day 5 — Site Chronologies & Dendroecology

Lectures Lab

Lect. 8: Site Chronologies: Dating

Lect. 9: Introduction to Dendroecology and Case Study

Lab 4: Continue Dating the Prepared Samples

Day 6 — Data Analysis Tools

Lectures Lab

Lect. 9: COFECHA

Lect. 10: Program xDateR

Lab 5: Continue Dating the Samples

Day 7 — Standardization and Time Series

Lectures Lab

Lect. 11: Introduction to Standardization and Time Series Properties

Lect. 12: Introduction to ARSTAN

Lab 6: Measuring the Dated Samples — Exercise 1 (COFECHA)

Day 8 — Signal Identification & Reconstruction Modeling

Lectures Lab

Lect. 13: Signal Identification

Lect. 14: Reconstruction Modeling

Lab 7: ARSTAN Exercise

Day 9 — Dendroclimatology & Dendrohydrology

Lectures Lab

Lect. 15: Introduction to Dendroclimatology

Lect. 16: Introduction to Dendrohydrology

Lab 8: Introduction to Seascorr and continue with ARSTAN

Day 10 — Case Studies & Group Projects

Lecture Lab

Lect. 17: Case Study

Lab 9: Group Micro-Projects and Preparation of Participants’ Presentations

Days 11 & 12 — Group Micro-Projects

Group Work

Continue Group Micro-Projects

Day 13 — Finalizing Presentations

Lab

Finalize Presentations on Micro-Project

Day 14 — Course Conclusion

Presentations

End of Course – Presentations and Closing Remarks

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