Tree Ring Laboratory
Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences
Our tree-ring laboratory is associated with the Glaciological Department of the Institute of Geography RAS. Main topics that we are developing are
• dendrogeomorphology (dating of moraines, debris flows, avalanches, volcanic eruptions, lahars etc.
• dendroclimatology and dendrohydrology
• tree-ring dating of archeological and architectural monuments.
We consider the multi-proxy reconstructions including apart from the tree-rings also ice core and lake sediments records as one of the most important direction of our activity. We also combine the tree-ring reconstructions with the borehole temperature reconstructions, pollen analyses, dates of moraines, buried soils etc.
We cooperate with the Russian and foreign tree-ring laboratories in the Sukhachev Institite of Forestry SB RAS (http://forest.akadem.ru/), Moscow University of Forestry (www.mgul.ac.ru), Institute of plant and animal ecology UB RAS (http://ipae.uran.ru), Institute of Archeology RAS (http://www.archaeolog.ru/), University of Arizona (http://tree.ltrr.arizona.edu/), Lamont Observatory (http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/res/fac/trl/index.html).
Our logotype is a crow manufactured from the piece of black oak 1000 years old collected from the bottom of the Sura river (present of V.Kazakov – head of the firm «Black oak»).