UW-Platteville TREES Laboratory

04/26/2024

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03/29/2024

03/29/2024

01/23/2024

University of Wisconsin-Platteville's Department of Environmental Sciences and Society will host the 2024 Wisconsin Prescribed Fire Conference at UW-Platteville on February 2-3. This event brings together fire practitioners, students, researchers and private landowners to exchange ideas and expertis...

01/02/2024

Join your fellow caretakers of nature at The Stewardship Network Conference 2024 to learn, connect, and replenish. This year, we're proud to welcome Evan Larson of University of Wisconsin-Platteville, live and in-person at The Kellogg Center in East Lansing, MI. 🌳

Learn more & register >> stewardshipnetwork.org/conference

10/02/2023

09/19/2023

Dr. Evan Larson, Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Society, recently had an article published in Water Resources Research, a premier, high-impact journal published by the American Geophysical Union (AGU). The article, entitled “Five Centuries of Groundwater Elevations Provide Evidence of Shifting Climate Drivers and Human Influences on Water Resources in North Central Florida,” is co-authored by Dr. Chris Underwood, also a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Society, and is a part of a project that has been years in the making. This article reports on a 500-year long reconstruction of groundwater resources in Florida and identifies the impacts of groundwater withdrawals for use in urban and agricultural systems on the resource. Many UW-Platteville students and alumni collaborated on this project as well.

“Human lives are so brief relative to the changes we see in the environment, and our written records are, too,” says Larson. “The expanded perspective on time provided through the rings of trees helps us understand our place in this world more completely, how the world around us is changing, and how our decisions and actions impact the world. This new groundwater reconstruction shows that while deeper and more prolonged droughts than anything experienced during the instrumental record have occurred in the past, the combined influences of climate and water use by people drove recent groundwater elevations to lows comparable to some of the worst droughts in the past five centuries. This understanding, in addition to a curious shifting in the persistence of groundwater elevations apparent in this long record of climate, offers an opportunity to better prepare how we plan for future water resource availability and to get ahead of the impacts that water scarcity can have on economic and ecological systems of northern Florida.”

Find the article here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2022WR031970

AGU is a global community supporting more than half a million advocates and professionals in the Earth and space sciences. Through broad and inclusive partnerships, AGU aims to advance discovery and solution science that accelerate knowledge and create solutions that are ethical, unbiased and respectful of communities and their values.

American Geophysical Union (AGU) University of Wisconsin-Platteville

09/13/2023

"There has been research on the use of fire to manage land and vegetation, including a study currently underway by Evan Larson, a professor of environmental sciences and society at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. Larson is working with a team to study the use of cultural fires by the Anishinaabe on Wisconsin Point."

Learn more about how Dr. Evan Larson's sabbatical research is being translated into action here: https://news.yahoo.com/superior-weighs-tradition-tackle-climate-035900663.html


University of Wisconsin-Platteville UW-Platteville TREES Laboratory

08/10/2023

We need your help!

Do you have redcedars growing along cliffs and rock outcrops on your land? Consider participating in the Driftless Cedars Project!

To learn more about how you can help, discover more about the project, or to upload photos and contact information for trees you think might be of interest, visit our website: https://www.uwplatt.edu/driftless-cedars

University of Wisconsin-Platteville
UW-Platteville College of Liberal Arts and Education

08/10/2023

The ubiquitous eastern redcedar tree – a native species but one that can encroach on the region’s pastures and prairies – may be seen as a nuisance to some, but actually has a very important story to tell about the region’s climate history. Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Platte...