Core Sample from Hecate Island Tree (IMAGE)

University of Oregon

Core Sample from Hecate Island Tree

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Trees are like big thermometers, says Kira Hoffman, a doctoral student at the University of Victoria. Here she extracts a core sample from a western red cedar tree as part of her effort to understand historic climate variability in the northern reaches of the Pacific Northwest.

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Photo by Malcolm Johnson

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