Highlights | Carolina Tree-Ring Science Laboratory

Carolina Tree-Ring Science Laboratory

Highlights

2024

  • Tyler Mitchell receives his Ph.D.
  • Gabe Small receives Best Graduate Student Poster Award at the 2024 SEDAAG Conference
  • Former Carolina Tree-Ring Lab doctoral student, Dr. Thomas Patterson, is appointed assistant professor at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University 

2023

  • Hunter Lewis Graduates and Publishes His Thesis
  • Avery Catherwood, Tree-Ring Lab Student, Received the John Fraser Hart Best Ph.D. Paper Award at the 2023 SEDAAG Conference

2021

  • Avery Catherwood, Tree-Ring Lab Student, Received the Best Master’s Paper Award at the 2021 SEDAAG Conference
  • The Great Suppression of Tropical Cyclone Activity along the Carolina Coast during 1843–1876

2020

  • Infrequent, High-Intensity Rainfall Events Critical to Longleaf Pine Growth

2019

  • Tree-Ring Growth Variability Reflects Specific Precipitation Types
  • A 400-Year Reconstruction of Wintertime Arctic Sea-Ice Extent Using A High-Elevation, Mid-Latitude Tree-Ring Record

2018

  • Tyler Mitchell, Tree-Ring Lab Student, Received the Best Master’s Paper Award at the 2018 SEDAAG Conference

2017

  • Tommy Patterson, Tree-Ring Lab Student, awarded cover art on the Southeastern Geographer in 2017
  • Dr. Knapp receives NSF grant
  • Tommy Patterson Ph.D. and Keith Watkins M.A. Graduate
  • New Study Links Climate Change To Increased Western Wildfire Activity

2016

  • Keith Watkins, Tree-Ring Lab Student, Received the Best Master’s Paper Award at the 2016 SEDAAG Conference
  • MA student Keith Watkins featured in UNCG Magazine

2015

  • Keith Watkins, Tree-Ring Student, is awarded 1st Place at the 2015 9th annual Undergraduate Research and Creativity Expo
  • Tree-Ring Scientists highlighted in O.Henry Magazine (pages 68-69)

2013

  • Old tulip poplar on Guilford College campus (page 5)
  • Tommy Patterson, Tree-Ring Lab student, received the Best Master’s Paper Award at the 2013 SEDAAG Conference
  • Climate science: Drought-busting cyclones

2007

  • Scientists address a burning question
  • Blue-sky thinking