Collaborative Research: Water and energy fluxes to the Arctic Ocean using tree-ring data and hydrological modeling

The main objective is to provide information on the variability of freshwater and heat inflow to the Arctic Ocean from the Yenisei River. NSF collaboration is with a team of scientists from the University of New Hampshire (UNH). Tasks include field collections of tree-ring data, application of those data and existing tree-ring data to reconstruction of fluxes of heat and water, and integration of tree-ring data in a water-balance modeling and database framework that will more broadly encourage dendrohydrologic studies of Arctic Basins. MS candidate Richie Thaxton joined the project in Fall Semester, 2020.

• Hydroclimatic studies of the Yenisei Basin, Siberia
• Field collections and tree-ring chronology development, including cell anatomy
• Reconstruction of fields of water-balance variables over the the Yenisei Basin
• Development of a new research tool for exploring the hydrologic signal in tree-ring networks