LTRR in the News

Chris Baisan’s paper, with Karl Karlstrom (University of New Mexico) and others in Eos

 “An Asteroid Impact May Have Led to Flooding near the Grand Canyon”

https://eos.org/articles/an-asteroid-impact-may-have-led-to-flooding-near-the-grand-canyon. Their paper, “Grand Canyon landslide-dam and paleolake triggered by the Meteor Crater impact at 56 ka” was published in Geology (https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/53/10/821/659552/Grand-Canyon-landslide-dam-and-paleolake-triggered).

 

Ellie Broadman and Valerie Trouet, in UA News: “Tree-ring data sheds light on past and present summer climate extremes”

https://news.arizona.edu/news/tree-ring-data-sheds-light-past-and-present-summer-climate-extremes ) for their paper in AGU Advances, “A Millennium of ENSO Influence on Jet Stream Driven Summer Climate Extremes” (https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024AV001621).

 

Margaret Evans, in UA News: “Predicting how plants will fare in the heat is not so easy”

https://news.arizona.edu/news/predicting-how-plants-will-fare-heat-not-so-easy), for her article (with  coauthors Jia Hu, formerly at UA and Sean Michaletz, University of British Columbia) in Science,Scaling plant responses to heat: From molecules to the biosphere” (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adv7597).  Their paper was part of a special issue of Science, “Plants Facing the Heat.” (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adz0700).

 

Valerie Trouet’s book, In the Circle of Ancient Trees: Our Oldest Trees and the Stories they Tell was highlighted in her interview in Nautilus (“The Trees That Remember the Pyramids” https://nautil.us/the-trees-that-remember-the-pyramids-1243263/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us Valerie’s book includes essays by LTRR Regents Professors Emeriti Malcolm Hughes and Tom Swetnam.

 

TIME lab (https://timelab.arizona.edu) was one of 6 UA teams to be awarded $250,000 in the wins Big Idea Challenge (https://research.arizona.edu/impact/big-idea-challenge ). The TIME lab team was led by Charlotte Pearson, with Bryan Black and Soumaya Belmecheri along with their partners in the Department of Planetary Sciences and Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Joe Giacalone and Ashraf Moradi. The TIME lab was also featured in the College of Science News: “University of Arizona opens groundbreaking TIME Lab to link past and present” https://science.arizona.edu/news/university-arizona-opens-groundbreaking-time-lab-link-past-and-present.