News

All talks & seminars are held virtually for the foreseeable future 
22 January 2021: Tree Story is announced a finalist for the AAP Prose Award
Dinsdag 9 Februari 2021: De Buren: Spelbrekers: Klimaat en Spel (BE; Nederlands) 
Saturday 20 February 2021: The Performance Arcade with Kirsten Lavers (12pm; Wellington, NZ)
Tuesday 23 February 2021: Foothills Forum Tucson (US)
Zaterdag 27 February 2021: Contactdag Limburgs Centrum voor Natuuronderzoek (BE; Nederlands)
Saturday 6 March 2021:  Tucson Festival of Books (3pm; US)
Monday 15 March 2021: Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany (5pm; CZ, in English)
Wednesday 31 March 2021: NASA Goddard Space Center (3.30pm, US)
Dinsdag 13 April 2021: BOS+ (20h, BE, Nederlands)

19 November 2020: Kendal Mountain Festival
18 Oktober 2020: Wat bomen ons vertellen wint de Jan Wolkersprijs voor het beste natuurboek. Beluister de prijsuitreiking op Vroege Vogels (NPO Radio 1)

ABOUT VALERIE

Scientist & writer

I am a dendroclimatologist: I use the rings in trees to study the climate of the past and how it has influenced ecosystems and human history.
I am an Associate Professor in the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research at the University of Arizona. You can find more information about my research and my research group here.
I wrote Tree Story, a broad audience book about tree rings, climate history, and human history. It is published by Johns Hopkins University Press and has been translated into Dutch (my mother tongue): Wat Bomen Ons Vertellen.

Mt Olymp, Greece, after a long day of coring trees

​"Trees remember. They record history and they don't lie."