Presented by the UA Science Café
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Margaret Evans, Assistant Professor, Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona:
Sponsored by the College of Science, this series of public talks, given by University of Arizona professors and graduate students bring the community together in a casual setting to learn about the latest research being conducted. You can get to know the faces behind the science, have opportunities to ask questions and deepen your understanding of the world around you. There are five, separate café series at different locations around Tucson now including Tucson Botanical Gardens. Come join the conversation!
As trees grow, they remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, substantially mitigating climate change. But their ability to continue to do so in the future, with warming temperatures and rising drought stress, is a matter of great scientific debate. Tree rings are a rich source of information on how tree growth responds to climate variation, that is used to forecast future forest productivity given projections of future climate conditions.