The scope of my research is to study wood growth and its response to climate. The questions I'm trying to answer is, how can we reconstruct the climate of the past and what is the tree response to current climate change? So the current experimental challenges that we face are among others, the large data volumes that we obtain with x-ray CT scanning.
So we need to find a proper balance between the number of samples that we want to scan and the required resolution. The X-ray CT techniques has allowed us to scan three core at an unprecedented rate. We have density profiles both from tropical and temperate regions.
So the main advantages that we have with our technique is that we can do a lot of high throughput scanning and analysis, but also that all the indications and manipulations that we do are traceable along the entire tool chain, including the tree ring indications. This tool will allow us to update current to maximum later density chronologies, and also measure wood properties on tree course from all over the world, especially in regions where there's little data available.
