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Evaluating changing water-tree interactions through tree sway signals and tree cores
Abstract:
From seconds to decades, the water cycle is inextricably linked to trees. This talk highlights two ways in which water-tree interactions can be monitored and evaluated at two different time scales. The first approach demonstrates how leveraging ‘Fitbits’ on trees and monitoring sub-second tree sway signals can be used to evaluate ecohydrological processes, including interception and water stress. The second approach focuses on using tree cores to unravel decades-long groundwater and lake level changes. Overall, developing these approaches is motivated by a need to monitor and detect changing ecohydrological processes in the contexts of climate change and land use change.
Speaker's Bio:
Dom Ciruzzi is an ecohydrologist and joined the William & Mary faculty as an Assistant Professor of Geology in Fall 2021. Dom researches the causes and consequences of changing water pathways in natural and built environments, with interests in water-tree interactions and the sustainability of landscapes and ecosystems under climate change and land use change. He teaches courses on Physical Geology, Hydrology, Watershed Dynamics, and Earth Science for Environmental Justice. He obtained a B.A. in Geophysics from SUNY Geneseo, an M.S. in Geological Sciences from the University at Buffalo, and a Ph.D. in Geological Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
