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Charcoal correlation to drought and forest fires

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Charcoal correlation to drought and forest fires

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Bryce Hinsch Role :Text(marcrelator)
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Bryan Shuman, Ph.D. Role :Text(marcrelator)
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Laramie, Wyoming
University of Wyoming (keyDate="yes")
4/24/2010

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Climate change over the past 15000 years has had significant impacts on forests and other natural resources. An important area of study has been the effects of past droughts (some up to several thoughts years long) on forest fires, their intensity, and their frequency. Current research has examined the effects of solar variability and other factors on the drought history of the northeastern United States. Several droughts around 5000 years ago caused a dramatic change in the forests of the region, but much less is known about the role of wildfires in these changes. A potential area of research would be centered on lake sediments from a pond in the Massoit National Wildlife Refuge in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Fires in these forests generated charcoal, which washed into the pond over time. By examining the amount of charcoal in a sediment core collected from the lake in 2009, the history of fire at the site can be reconstructed and compared with the regional drought history. The work entails separating the charcoal from the sediment in the core, and then counting the number of charcoal fragments in different portions of the core. note
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