Central American Dendrochronology

Last updated on Jun 3, 2021

Scan of tree rings from site in Totonicapán, Guatemala. Check out DendroElevator for more information on high resolution tree-ring imagery and analysis.

Since 2015, I have worked with collaborators on developing and analyzing tree-ring chronologies from Guatemala and Honduras. For my undergraduate honors thesis, I generated the first tree-ring chronology for Totonicapán, Guatemala. A paper on the full network of chronologies that has been developed over the last 10 years is forthcoming - stay tuned!

RELATED PUBLICATIONS

Talia Anderson, Daniel Griffin, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Diego Pons, Matthew J. Taylor (2018). Climate Sensitivity and Potential Vulnerability of Guatemalan Fir (Abies guatemalensis) Forests in Totonicapán, Guatemala. Journal of Latin American Geography, 17(1).

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Talia Anderson

University of Minnesota Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow

I am a University of Minnesota Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Geography, Environment & Society. I recently completed another postdoctoral fellowship with the NOAA Climate & Global Change Program and was based at the University of California - Los Angeles in the McKinnon Group. My research focuses on climate variability and change in mountain landscapes across different spatial and temporal scales. I use a variety of data types, from models to satellite imagery, to explore climate impacts in both localized areas and large, multi-country regions.