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Laura E. Conkey

Associate Professor of Geography
Adjunct Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
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Departments

  • Geography

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Contact Information

Email: laura.e.conkey@dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603-646-3381
Office: 6017 Fairchild Hall

Education

A.B. Harvard University; M.S. University of Arizona; Ph.D. University of Arizona

Areas of Expertise

Women in science, feminist critiques of science; biogeography and natural history of temperate forests, including fire, air pollution, climate, and forest dynamics; dendrochronology: ecological background, field and laboratory techniques, long-term climates from ancient wood

Selected Works

  • "Some Preliminary Results of Tree Ring Analyses of Interstadial Wood in Glacier Bay," with D E Lawson, et al., Program and Abstracts, Glacier Bay Science Symposium, Juneau, AK, Oct. 26-28, (2004) 50.
  • "Pitch Pine/Jack Pine Dynamics at Overlapping Range Limits, Program Abstracts, Acadia National Park, Maine. Association of American Geographers (AAG), (2004).
  • Potential Changes in Species Distribution Patterns: Implication of Current Range Limits, Final report to the U.S. Forest Service Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, (2000).
  • "Tree-Ring ∂D As An Indicator of Asian Monsoon Intensity", with X Feng, H Cui and K Tang, Quaternary Research, 51 (1999) 262-266.
  • "Reflected-Light Image Analysis of Conifer Tree Rings for Reconstructing Climate," with P R Sheppard and L J Graumlich, The Holocene, 6 (1996) 62-68.

Current Projects

"Glacier Bay dendrochronology"