Workshops

Left: Field trip to the Catalina Mts. north of Tucson; Right: Session during the 2006 Tucson workshop

Since 2006, the TreeFlow Team has presented 13 half-day and all-day technical workshops in 9 different locations around the western US, to over 250 participants. The purpose of these workshops has been to comprehensively cover the methods of generating reconstructed streamflow from tree rings, so that water managers and stakeholders interested in using these data would have a better basis of understanding from which to work. They also provided opportunities for water managers to share information with each other about applications of the tree-ring data, and for tree-ring researchers to learn more about the information needs of water management.

The core of the workshops is a multi-section instructional presentation. A key component of most of the workshops has been the presentations given by water manager-participants on their ongoing or intended uses of the tree-ring data. See the individual workshop pages below for links to all of the presentations at the workshops.

If you would be interested in having us present a workshop, please contact Connie Woodhouse.

Past workshops (most recent first) - click for workshop report and links to presentations:

Tempe, AZ (ASU) - September 11, 2009

Boulder City, NV - November 13, 2008

Durango, CO - June 13, 2008

Albuquerque, NM - May 30, 2008

Spokane, WA - May 22, 2008

Salt Lake City, UT- March 26, 2008

Albuquerque, NM - November 2, 2007

Cheyenne, WY - September 6, 2007

Durango, CO - May 31, 2007

Boulder, CO - May 14, 2007

Tucson, AZ - November 1, 2006

Boulder, CO - May 8, 2006 - Participant List

Alamosa, CO - April 26, 2006 - Participant List

 

Main Instructional Presentation -

Tree-ring reconstructions of streamflow and climate and their application to water management - An annotated version of the main presentation given at the workshops. (The workshop report pages above have links to the specific presentations at each workshop.)

The presentation can be downloaded in three sections:

Parts 1-3 (PPT file, 5.5 MB)
1) What is the value of tree-ring reconstructions?
2) How tree rings record climate information
3) Building the tree-ring chronology

Parts 4-6 (PPT file, 2.0 MB)
4) Generating the reconstruction of streamflow
5) Uncertainty in the reconstructions
6) What the reconstructions can tell us about past drought

Parts 7-9 (PPT file, 1.8 MB)
7) How the reconstructions are being applied to water management
8) Why the reconstructions are relevant in a changing climate
9) Summary and the TreeFlow web resource

(This presentation has extensive notes on each slide, so we recommend viewing it in "Normal" view with the notes window at bottom enlarged, or in "Notes Page" view. If you would like to use any of the slides or graphics in your own presentations, please contact Connie Woodhouse.)

 

Other workshop materials:

Poster of tree cores used for crossdating exercise - PDF, 6 MB