American River Dendrosnow

The long version of the title is "Collaborative Research: Interannual and seasonal variability of snowpack in the Sierra Nevada from tree rings". A main objective is to develop generally applicable tree-ring measures for study of variability of snowpack parameters. Collaborators on the project are researchers from the Hydrologic Research Center, San Diego, CA (Eylon Shamir, Rochelle Campbell, and Kosta Georgakakos)

• Develop chronologies of tree-ring width and cell morphology for the North Fork of the American River (NFAR), California
• Identify the signals for snowpack variables in the chronologies
• Apply the chronologies to reconstruct snowpack variables in the NFAR
• Develop dendro-snow methodology transferable to other basins