What do trees remember? Insights from tree rings into Minnesota’s changing forests

Mara McPartland, PhD candidate in the U of MN Department of Geography, Environment, and Society explains in our Spring 2021 research feature what she's learning from her doctoral research in northern Minnesota. Mara is using tree-ring data collected from two study areas in northern Minnesota to reconstruct local-to-regional climate histories. The goal of her research is to further our understanding of paleoclimate, and to provide tools to public policy makers in planning for a range of future climate change scenarios.