Laura E. Conkey
Appointments
Professor Emeritus of Geography
Adjunct Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
Area of Expertise
Women in science, feminist critiques of science,
biogeography and natural history of temperate forests, including fire, air pollution, climate, and forest dynamics,
dendrochronology: ecological background, field and laboratory techniques, long-term climates from ancient wood
Education
A.B. Harvard University
M.S. University of Arizona
Ph.D. University of Arizona
Publications
“Some Preliminary Results of Tree Ring Analyses of Interstadial Wood in Glacier Bay,” with D E Lawson, et al., Program and Abstracts , Glacier Bay Science Symposium, Juneau, AK, Oct. 26-28, (2004) 50.
“Pitch Pine/Jack Pine Dynamics at Overlapping Range Limits, Program Abstracts , Acadia National Park, Maine. Association of American Geographers (AAG), (2004).
Potential Changes in Species Distribution Patterns: Implication of Current Range Limits , Final report to the U.S. Forest Service Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, (2000).
“Tree-Ring ∂D As An Indicator of Asian Monsoon Intensity”, with X Feng, H Cui and K Tang, Quaternary Research , 51 (1999) 262-266.
“Reflected-Light Image Analysis of Conifer Tree Rings for Reconstructing Climate,” with P R Sheppard and L J Graumlich, The Holocene , 6 (1996) 62-68.
Works in Progress
“Glacier Bay dendrochronology”
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