Queensland Hoop Pine and Climate Project

Climate over the last 2,000 years provides a crucial lens for how we view more recent climate change. Are the changes we see today "normal" climate variability or "extraordinary" climate change? To answer this, we rely heavily on information captured in tree-rings that extend back decades to centuries. In far North Queensland, hoop pine preserve records of centuries-long climate change. This project entails strenuous field work in Hidden Valley (west of Paluma) and elsewhere sampling living hoop pine and then the development of ring-width chronologies for climate analysis. Please contact Nathan English for more details.