Dendro-climate and the Dominican Republic

In this episode Dr. Danielle Eiseman discusses recent field work she did in the Dominican Republic with colleagues from the Cornell Emergent Climate Risk Lad and the University of Arizona Laboratory of Tree Ring Research. You will here clips from the field describing the process of taking tree cores, what the cores are used for and how to study past climate from tree rings. In the second part of this episode Danielle chats with Dr. Dimitris Herrera about their field work and why this type of work is useful.