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Cartography at its Best - Cartography Class at the University of Nevada Reno is interviewed on their work to help improve and update maps for rescue and recovery group efforts in Haiti

Jeff CrawfordVisiting Professor adds to departments diversity

Dr. Xiaochun Wang, Associate Professor at Northeast Forestry University in Harbin, China, is spending a one-year long visit at the DendroLab. He holds a M.S. and a Ph.D. in Forest Ecology and Climate Change, and a B.S. in Physics, from that university. He is interested in applied statistics of proxy climate data and climate reconstructions. During his stay at UNR he will explore research topics related to dendroclimatic reconstructions, variability of fire-climate relationships, and dendroecology, all of them with an emphasis on northeastern China.