Studies:

1) Long-term Hudson Valley Drought:

Using tree-rings to established eastern US dendroclimatology and study long-term drought

2) Historical Preservation:

Using tree-rings to identify true ages of historical buildings

3) A Hudson Highland Old-Growth Forest:

Using old-growth forests to interpret historial climate response in order to understand potential impacts of future environmental change

4) Climate Change & Trees @ Range Margins:

Taking advantage of biodiversity and long climate records to help anticipate the future

5) Ecosystems & Old-growth:

Ecosystems & Discoveries of old trees in the Hudson Valley

6) Large Scale Studies:

Continental scale research using tree-ring data from the Hudson Valley

• Rosanne D'Arrigo, Dave Lawrence, Ed Cook, W. Schuster, M. Wilijanen & Roy Thetford. in press. Climate-Growth Relationships of Eastern Hemlock & Chestnut Oak from Black Rock Forest in the Highlands of SE New York. Tree-Ring Research

• Cook, E.R., Meko, D.M., Stahle, D.W., and Cleaveland, M.K. 1999. Drought reconstructions for the continental United States. Journal of Climate 12:1145-1162.

• Cole, J.E. and Cook, E.R. 1998. The changing relationship between ENSO variability and moisture balance in the continental United States. Geophysical Research Letters 25(24):4529-4532.

• Cook, E.R., D'Arrigo, R.D., and Briffa, K.R. 1998. A reconstruction of the North Atlantic Oscillation using tree-ring chronologies from North America and Europe. The Holocene 8(1):9-17.

• Cook, E.R., Meko, D.M. and Stockton, C.W. 1997. A new assessment of possible solar and lunar forcing of the bi-decadal drought rhythm in the western United States. Journal of Climate 10:1343-1356.

• Meko, D.M., Cook, E.R., Stahle, D.W., Stockton, C.W. and Hughes, M.K.1993. Spatial patterns of tree-growth anomalies in the United States and southeastern Canada. Journal of Climate 6:1773-1786.

• Webb, S.L., Glenn, M.G., Cook, E.R., Wagner, W.S. and Thetford, R.D. 1993. Range edge red spruce in New Jersey, U.S.A.: bog versus upland population structure and climate responses. Journal of Biogeography 20: 63-78.

• Ed Cook & J. Cole. 1991. On predicting the response of forests in eastern North America to future climatic change. Climatic Change 19:271-282.

• Ed Cook. 1991. Tree rings as indicators of climate change and the potential response of forests to the greenhouse effect. In Wyman, R.L., ed., Global Climate Change and Life on Earth. Routledge, Chapman and Hall, New York. pp. 56-64.

• Ed Cook & Gordon Jacoby. 1979. Evidence for Quasi-periodic July Drought in the Hudson Valley, New York. Nature 282: 390-392.

• Ed Cook & Gordon Jacoby. 1977. Tree-ring-Drought Relationships in the Hudson Valley, NY. Science 198: 399-401.

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