Training in dendrocronological studies: characterization of tree growth rings jatobá (Hymenaea courbaril L.) and cedro (Cedrela odorata L.), occurrents in FLONA - Tapajós, PA, Brazil

• Grant number: 18/09645-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: June 01, 2018
• End date: December 31, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Forestry Resources and Forestry Engineering - Technology and Use of Forest Products
• Agreement: NSF and NSF's Partnership for International Research and Education (PIRE)
• Principal Investigator: Mario Tommasiello Filho
• Grantee: Bruna Hornink
• Host Institution: Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALQ). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Piracicaba , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 17/50085-3 - PIRE: climate research education in the Americas using tree-ring speleothem examples (PIRE-CREATE), AP.TEM

Abstract

It aims at the training of students in the areas of Biological Sciences, Geosciences, Meteorology and Forestry Engineering. The candidate for the scientific initiation fellowship should have basic knowledge in plant and / or wood anatomy in order to support research in dendrochronology associated with paleoclimate. Another requirement of the candidate is an intermediate domain of the English language, necessary in the reading of scientific articles. The student of scientific initiation will study a population of a single species being trained in basic methods of dendrochronological analysis in order to understand and be able to prepare the time series from the width of the rings of growth. (AU)