LEO Alaska Webinar - March 23rd, 2021

• Changes in Alaska’s White Spruce Populations North of the Arctic Circle (Roman Dial)

Dear LEO Network Members and Participants,

Thank you for joining us in the March LEO Network webinar. The video recording and presentation slides are available at the bottom of this page. 

Agenda:

1:45pm - Conference Line Opens

2:00pm - Welcome, Agenda Review

2:05pm - LEO Observation Review and Discussion

2:40pm - Presentation

Changes in Alaska’s White Spruce Populations North of the Arctic Circle

Presenter: Roman Dial, Professor of Mathmatics and Biology at Alaska Pacific University

Description:

This presentation will talk about changes in Brooks Range treelines between the 1970s and today in the context of climate and soil nutrients. It will also describe a population of spruce that jumped the southern Brooks Range in the 1920s to establish a prolific population in a valley without spruce for 100,000 years.

Thank you LEO Network members for joining us in the March webinar.

Respectfully,

The LEO Team at ANTHC