Workshop on the Application
of Tree-Ring Data to Water Management
Boulder, CO - May 14, 2007
Workshop
participant list
This all-day workshop was a departure from our
previous workshops, in that the emphasis was on presentations
of applications of tree-ring data by water providers and consultants,
rather than instruction on tree-ring reconstruction methodology
(though the latter was also provided because a number of participants
were not familiar with the tree-ring data). The workshop was intended
to review current applications of tree-ring data and serve as
a springboard for further applications of the data, both in terms
of geographic expansion (to new providers and basins) and dissemination
of new analytical techniques.
There were over 20 participants from Colorado,
Arizona, and Nevada, about half of whom had participated in a
previous workshop. After we presented an abbreviated
version of our main instructional presentation, and an overview
of the issues and challenges in applying tree-ring data, the
rest of the day was given to our participant-presenters:
Connie also presented Manu Lall's (Columbia U.)
recent work on extracting dominant modes of variability from paleodata
and using them to project future conditions: Using
Extended Records of Streamflow to Simulate Low-Frequency Variability
in Future Flows.
We hope to have another tree-ring applications
"status and review" workshop in Boulder in 2009.
Jeff
Lukas, University of Colorado & WWA
