TECHNICAL NOTEAn intensive tree-ring experience: Connecting education and research during the 25th European Dendroecological Fieldweek (Asturias, Spain)
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History and concept of the European Dendroecological Fieldweek (EDF)
The Dendroecological Fieldweeks were designed to provide an intensive learning experience in tree-ring research that challenges participants to explore new approaches of multidisciplinary dendro-sciences within the context of a specific field and laboratory settings (Speer et al., 2006, Speer et al., 2017, Touchan et al., 2013). The courses have filled an important niche because they teach dendrochronology to scientists who do not have access to the few teaching tree-ring classes around the
Structure of the 25th EDF in NW Spain
The 25th EDF was held from 31 August to 6 September 2014, in Oviedo (Asturias region, NW Spain) hosted at the Educational Foundation of Asturian Miners (FUNDOMA; www.fundoma.org) including 33 participants and 10 instructors from altogether 18 countries based on Institutions (Fig. 1b).
Participants and instructors jointly decided on five disciplines: Dendroarchaeology (DAR), dendroclimatology (DCL), dendrogeomorphology (DGM), forest dynamic (FD) and plant anatomy (PA) (Fig. 2). Each group project
Case studies of the group projects
The study sites were located in different areas of Asturias and Spain following the specific objectives of each group (Fig. 2b). The course had access to various web-based tools and database for forest data, botanical, climatological, geological and archaeological analysis, and to historical and documentary records of environmental and urban changes archived in local libraries in Asturias.
Conclusions
The 25th EDF demonstrated the potential of tree-ring data from tree species and sites in NW Spain for studying archaeology, climate, forest dynamic, geomorphology and plant anatomy aspects (Fig. 3). To dendrochronologically establish the date and provenance of historical timbers of oak and pine in Spain, a denser network of multi-century long chronologies is required. However, despite the lack of absolute dates, tree-rings can reveal coeval groups of timbers, different building phases, and in
Acknowledgements
This 25th EDF was carried out as joint event of the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf-Switzerland, CETEMAS (Forest and Wood Technology Research Centre) in Asturias, University of Córdoba (UCO) and IPE-CSIC (Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología – Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas)-Zaragoza, from Spain. The organizers sincerely thank the FUNDOMA, Consejería de Desarrollo Rural y Recursos Naturales-Principado de Asturias, UniOvi (Universidad
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