The Laboratory of Dendrochronology is a subdivision of the Department of Glaciology of the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences. It has been in operation since the early 2000s. The main areas of our research are:
About our laboratory
- Dendroclimatic reconstructions
- Dendrogeomorphology - dating of moraines, volcanic eruptions, avalanches, landslides, etc.
- Dating of wooden buildings and wooden structural elements
- Dating of paintings on wooden panels, including icons
- Dendroarchaeology - the dating of archaeological timber
Scientific projects
Our laboratory in numbers
20
years of research
25
research projects completed
1015
tree-ring chronologies are constructed