Ancient trees find life online

February 14th, 02008 by Alexander Rose - Twitter: @zander

 

Laura Welcher just pointed me to  this Google Earth Outreach project on the ancient Bristlcone Pine tree.  These are the same trees that live atop our Nevada Clock site.  Much of the data comes from our friends over at the Arizona Tree Ring Lab that have been studying the trees on our property.  By studying the rings on living and dead bristlecones they have been able to piece together climate data of the last 10,000 years.

This entry was posted on Thursday, February 14th, 02008 at 3:11 am and is filed under Clock of the Long Now, Long Term Thinking.

  • http://locative.myvelodrome.org/2008/02/19/google-earth-and-ancient-trees/ ART511 – Locative Studio Spring 2008 » Google Earth and Ancient Trees

    [...] this out. pretty interesting. Its a google earth project to document Ecological Research on the Ancient [...]

The Long Now Blog

Ideas about Long-term Thinking.

 Subscribe in a reader

Categories

Archives

Meta

«
»
Some Rights Reserved (CC)

The Long Now Foundation
Fostering Long-term Responsibility
est. 01996.