29 min

When trees talk 63 Degrees North

    • Science

In their careful records of climate change over the centuries — and millennia — trees offer a kind of crystal ball on the past. But they can also help researchers figure out everything from what happened in Norway during the Black Death to how Nazis hid an enormous battleship from the Allies during WWII to how much it rained in Norway during millennia past, when it was much warmer than today.
Our guests on today's show are Helene Svarva and Claudia Hartl. You can see a transcript of the show here.
Here's a selection of academic articles discussed in today's show:
Ljungqvist, Fredrik Charpentier; Seim, Andrea; Tegel, Willy; Krusic, Paul J.; Baittinger, Claudia; Belingard, Christelle. (2022) Regional Patterns of Late Medieval and Early Modern European Building Activity Revealed by Felling Dates. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Thun, Terje; Svarva, Helene Løvstrand. (2018) Tree-ring growth shows that the significant population decline in Norway began before the Black Death. Dendrochronologia
Svarva, Helene Løvstrand; Thun, Terje; Kirchhefer, Andreas; Nesje, Atle. (2018) Little Ice Age summer temperatures in Western Norway from a 700-year tree-ring chronology. The Holocene
Thun, Terje. (2009) Norwegian dendrochronology; almost a victim of the Black Death. AmS-Varia

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In their careful records of climate change over the centuries — and millennia — trees offer a kind of crystal ball on the past. But they can also help researchers figure out everything from what happened in Norway during the Black Death to how Nazis hid an enormous battleship from the Allies during WWII to how much it rained in Norway during millennia past, when it was much warmer than today.
Our guests on today's show are Helene Svarva and Claudia Hartl. You can see a transcript of the show here.
Here's a selection of academic articles discussed in today's show:
Ljungqvist, Fredrik Charpentier; Seim, Andrea; Tegel, Willy; Krusic, Paul J.; Baittinger, Claudia; Belingard, Christelle. (2022) Regional Patterns of Late Medieval and Early Modern European Building Activity Revealed by Felling Dates. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Thun, Terje; Svarva, Helene Løvstrand. (2018) Tree-ring growth shows that the significant population decline in Norway began before the Black Death. Dendrochronologia
Svarva, Helene Løvstrand; Thun, Terje; Kirchhefer, Andreas; Nesje, Atle. (2018) Little Ice Age summer temperatures in Western Norway from a 700-year tree-ring chronology. The Holocene
Thun, Terje. (2009) Norwegian dendrochronology; almost a victim of the Black Death. AmS-Varia

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

29 min

Top Podcasts In Science

Something You Should Know
Mike Carruthers | OmniCast Media | Cumulus Podcast Network
Technically Speaking: An Intel Podcast
iHeartPodcasts
Hidden Brain
Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam
Radiolab
WNYC Studios
Ologies with Alie Ward
Alie Ward
Crash Course Pods: The Universe
Crash Course Pods, Complexly