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About our laboratory

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:

  • 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