Tree Rings and Natural Hazards

From the reviews: The four editors, from the US, Canada, and Switzerland, all contribute their research to this volume, along with some 80 other investigators. The papers examine how trees record geological events, accurately dated by the evidence left in annual rings, and the inferences that may be drawn from these long records. Most analyses are highly detailed and specific, so this material will primarily interest advanced students and scientists conducting geological hazard research. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students and researchers. (M. K. Cleaveland, Choice, Vol. 48 (5), January, 2011) Tree Rings and Natural Hazards provides a needed and useful survey of a rapidly expanding area of research: using dendrochronology to study geomorphic hazards, including snow avalanches, landslides, rockfall, debris flows, flooding, earthquakes, and volcanic activity. Any tree-ring scientist would profit from reading this book, as would other geoscientists and specialists in natural hazards. (Jeff Lukas, Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, Vol. 43 (1), February, 2011)

Tree Rings and Natural Hazards An Introduction.- Tree Rings and Natural Hazards: An Introduction.- Snow Avalanches.- Dendrogeomorphology and Snow Avalanche Research.- Tree-Ring Dating of Snow Avalanches in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA.- Tracking Past Snow Avalanches in the SE Pyrenees.- Tree-Ring Based Reconstruction of Past Snow Avalanche Events and Risk Assessment in Northern Gasp Peninsula (Qubec, Canada).- Using Dendrochronology to Validate Numerical Simulations of Snow Avalanches in the Patagonian Andes.- Landslides.- Dating Landslides with Trees.- Dendrogeomorphological Analysis of a Landslide near Lago, Calabria (Italy).- Tree-Ring Analysis and Rockfall Avalanches: The Use of Weighted Samples.- Age of Landslides Along the Grande Rivire de la Baleine Estuary, Eastern Coast of Hudson Bay, Quebec (Canada).- Rainfall Up, Mountain Down?.- Rockfall.- Rockfalls and Their Hazard.- Assessing Rockfall Activity in a Mountain Forest Implications for Hazard Assessment.- Tree-Ring Based Rockfall Reconstruction and Accuracy Assessment of a 3D Rockfall Model.- Assessment of the Rockfall Frequency for Hazard Analysis at Sol dAndorra (Eastern Pyrenees).- Reconstruction and Spatial Analysis of Rockfall Frequency and Bounce Heights Derived from Tree Rings.- Debris Flows.- State of the Art in Debris-Flow Research: The Role of Dendrochronology.- Using Event and Minimum Age Dating for the Assessment of Hazards on a Debris-Flow Cone.- Dendrogeomorphic Applications to Debris Flows in Glacier National Park, Montana USA.- FrequencyMagnitude Relationships, Seasonality and Spread of Debris Flows on a Forested Cone.- High-Precision Dating of Debris-Flow Events Within the Growing Season.- Flooding.- Tree Rings as Paleoflood and Paleostage Indicators.- The Effectsof Hydroelectric Flooding on a Reservoirs Peripheral Forests and Newly Created Forested Islands.- Spring Water Levels Reconstructed from Ice-Scarred Trees and Cross-Sectional Area of the Earlywood Vessels in Tree Rings from Eastern Boreal Canada.- A 100-Year History of Floods Determined from Tree Rings in a Small Mountain Stream in the Tatra Mountains, Poland.- Dendrohydrology and Extreme Floods Along the Red River, Canada.- Meteorological Hazards.- Weather and Climate Extremes: Where Can Dendrochronology Help?.- Dendrotempestology and the Isotopic Record of Tropical Cyclones in Tree Rings of the Southeastern United States.- Dendrochronological Responses to a Tornado.- Dendroecology of Hurricanes and the Potential for Isotopic Reconstructions in Southeastern Texas.- Wildfires.- Wildfire Hazard and the Role of Tree-Ring Research.- Mesoscale Disturbance and Ecological Response to Decadal Climatic Variability in the American Southwest.- Wildfire Risk and Ecological Restoration in Mixed-Severity Fire Regimes.- Wildfire Ecology and Management at Grand Canyon, USA: Tree-Ring Applications in Forest Fire History and Modeling.- Wildfire Risk and Hazard in Northern Patagonia, Argentina.- Earthquakes.- Tree Rings and Earthquakes.- Application of Tree-Ring Analysis to Paleoseismology.- Tree-Ring Abnormality Caused by Large Earthquake: An Example From the 1931 M 8.0 Fuyun Earthquake.- Tree-Ring Dated Landslide Movements and Seismic Events in Southwestern Montana, USA.- Seismic Damage in Conifers from Olympic and Yellowstone National Parks, United States.- Volcanic Activity.- Studying Past Volcanic Activity with Tree Rings.- Tree-Ring Evidence for the 1913 Eruption of Volcn de Fuego de Colima, Mexico.- Dendrochemical Evidence of the 1781 Eruption of Mount Hood, Oregon.-Volcanic Eruptions over the Last 5,000 Years from High Elevation Tree-Ring Widths and Frost Rings.- Unknown Eruption of Shiveluch Volcano (Kamchatka, Russia) Around AD 1756 Identified by Dendrochronology.- Late Eighteenth Century Old Maid Eruption and Lahars at Mount Hood, Oregon (USA) Dated with Tree Rings and Historical Observations.- Overall Conclusion and Outlook.- Whither Dendrogeomorphology?.- Erratum