Join me at Hofstra University Tuesday, October 20th at 6:30 pm. I’ll talk about scientific of old growth forests and how they enhance understanding of human history and events via old trees & their rings hofstra.campuslabs.com/engage/event...

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New from openDendro: • xDateR and iDetrend: crossdate and detrend tree-ring data in your browser, with R code to reproduce your work • dplR 1.8.0 is on CRAN • dplPy 0.7.0 prerelease for Python Free and open source. opendendro.org

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Trees don’t always shift upslope with increasing temperature. Those that are more climate sensitive do but other species are moving downslope. Hydraulic traits can help determine which direction species will shift. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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When my grandad was cremated we left the crematorium in the slow black cars. We drove slowly past the bins - for this sad day was also bin day - and thus had time to appreciate that stencilled on each one was the command “no hot ashes”.

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Amazingly, I got an email from the author despite them being on holiday. I felt quite guilty.

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