[CANUFNET] AMERIDENDRO 2022 in Montreal (June 27 - July 1) -- Call for Submissions for Special Session on Applications of Dendrochronology in Urban Environments

[Greg King]

Dear CANUFNET colleagues,

As part of the upcoming 4th American Dendrochronological Conference
(AmeriDendro) taking place in Montreal on June 27-July 1, 2022, myself and
colleagues from UQAM have organized a special symposium on the application
of dendrochronology (tree-ring science) in urban environments. I would
invite anyone using tree-rings in the scope of your urban forest work to
please consider the call for submissions. A brief description of the
session:

*As of 2020, 56% of the world’s population live in urban areas. These
individuals benefit from numerous ecosystem services provided by urban
forests, including urban heat island mitigation, energy use reduction,
stormwater interception, wildlife and pollinator habitat provision, air
pollution removal, and carbon sequestration. Urban greenspaces are also
often the most accessible avenue for exposure to the natural environment,
providing additional aesthetic, recreational, and psychological benefits.
Dendrochronology offers a valuable field-based method that can improve
quantification of urban tree growth, evaluate response to environment, and
project how planted trees can be expected to perform in various
environments in the future. A few possible avenues of investigation
include: the potential to measure the impact of urban land-use on urban
forest growth, evaluate the scale and monetary value of carbon
sequestration, determine the spatial and temporal legacies of environmental
pollution using urban trees for biomonitoring, and assess resistance and
resilience of urban forests to extreme climatic events. This potential is
also challenged due to larger spatial heterogeneity in growth conditions
and many co-occurring anthropogenic effects (e.g. soil compaction,
mechanical wounding, excess irrigation, salinity, etc.) that may impact
cross-dating and developing common growth curves. As part of this session
we will hear from researchers on applications of this methodology and also
have a group/panel discussion on the unique challenges of urban
dendrochronology and how researchers have overcome those challenges --
informing the basis of a network and group of practice for this valuable
horizon for the tree-ring community.*

If this catches your attention, please consider submitting an abstract
to *Symposium
5. Applications of dendrochronology in urban environments *at this link:
https://sites.grenadine.uqam.ca/sites/geotop/en/ameridendro2022

I'd of course be happy to discuss/answer any questions you may have,

Kind regards,

Greg

-- 
Dr. Greg King <https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/gking>
Assistant Professor of Environmental Science
Head - Augustana Tree-Ring Lab
University of Alberta - Augustana Campus
<https://www.ualberta.ca/augustana/>
4901 - 46 Avenue, Camrose, AB,T4V 2R3, Canada
Tel: +1.780.679.1181
Email: gking at ualberta.ca

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for our learning and our life as a community.
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