RESEARCH
Dr. Pete Soulé continues work on a $150,000 grant from the United States Department of Agriculture's Plant and Environmental Adaptation Program titled" Anomalous 20th century ponderosa pine growth and potential CO2 fertilization in naturally-occurring stands in the interior West, USA." The goal of this project is to determine if increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have caused significant increases in the radial growth rates of ponderosa pine, an environmentally and economically important western tree species. All photographs are from fieldwork during summer 2006 in Utah, which included Geography senior Jessica Brannock and graduate student Andi Cochran.
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Upper Left: A Ponderosa pine under study
Upper Right:
Jessica Brannock recording data
Center Left:
Old growth (> 500 years old) Ponderosa pine
Center Right:
Jessica Brannock (left) and Andi Cochran taking core samples
Lower Left:
Dr. Soule
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