Tag Archives: dendrochronology

You may know you can gauge the age of a tree by counting its rings. But did you know that tree rings can help researchers predict future changes in climate? Students at Lamont-Doherty’s Tree Ring Lab (TRL) are currently engaged in this work, in a field of study called dendrochronology: the scientific study of tree rings and the variation of growth patterns through time. Researchers can analyze tree rings to reconstruct historical climate phenomena and to predict future conditions in an associated field of study, dendroclimatology.