Valerie Trouet Promoted to Full Professor - a first for the Tree-Ring Lab

Valerie Trouet, an ALRS affiliated faculty and new member of the ALRS Executive Committee was recently promoted to full professor.  This promotion is a significant accomplishment as Dr. Trouet is the first woman in the tree-ring lab to become a full professor.

UA@Work published this promotion in the June 23 issue, in an article by  Emily Litvack: “Another first for the tree-ring lab”

Valerie Trouet received her PhD degree from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BelgiumPhD, Bioscience Engineering, December 2004Dissertation: The El Niño Southern Oscillation effect on Zambezian miombo vegetation: proxies from tree-ring series and sattelite-  data

Her research topics include:

Arid Lands

Climate Adaptation and Sustainability

Ecohydrology and Biogeochemistry

Fire Ecology

Phenology

Plant and Soil Ecology

Photo credits for Valerie Trouet is from her lab's website http://trouetlab.arizona.edu/