The audiobook is narrated by Coleen Mario. She speaks clearly but way too fast. I had to turn the speed down to 80%--and then it sounds distorted. There is a lot of information to absorb. A reader needs time to think about that which they are told if it is going to be remembered! Had she spoken slower, I would have given four stars to the narration but have instead settled on three. Dendrochronologie is een fantastisch onderwerp en vakgebied en dit boek komt met mooie voorbeelden. Toch ben ik kritisch. Ik heb de Nederlandse vertaling gelezen en dat was toch wel een beetje pijnlijk. De vertaling was namelijk ronduit slecht en op iedere pagina zijn minstens vier anglicismes te vinden. Daarnaast was er geen, of te weinig, moeite gedaan om de zinsopbouw aan te passen naar het Nederlands. Ook de schrijfstijl kon ik niet waarderen, maar dat is een kwestie van smaak. The story continues with the expanded treehouse with new things to find and explore. There is a trampoline, a chocolate waterfall, a dinosaur petting zoo, and so much more. This time, they have the added benefit of a time machine to help them get their book finished in time. The Long, Long Life of Trees is written in praise of the physical beauty of trees and traces their cultural meanings. I worked on the principle that if I found something surprising, someone else probably would, too: what might be obvious to a botanist, a forester or local historian can still be a revelation to the rest of us.

Winners of the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) 2012 Announced". Readings . Retrieved 12 July 2014. I’m rating the book with three stars. It’s good. I’m glad I read it. The book contains lots of interesting information, but I would have preferred the content to be more structured. A lot of my friends and family knew I had a thing about trees before March. But it was when I started talking about my trip to Muir Woods that they realized just how much I love trees. I’m obsessed with trees. I have favorite trees around my neighborhood. I leaned my head against the trunks of several redwoods. I maybe talked to a couple of them. I know lists of tree facts.There are four steps involved to get a class discussion going about the series. They should come to the discussion prepared with all necessary materials, then you need to establish rules to drive the discussion. Everyone needs to respond to questions, and then you can draw conclusions from the book. These books can teach your children many lessons in listening, reading, and so much more. They can be used to teach children to evaluate key ideas from the area and come to conclusions. The books are organized into chapters, so you can decide how many chapters to cover per lessons. Klimaatveranderingen zijn van alle tijden, of beter gezegd natuurlijke klimaatveranderingen. Dit weten we o.a. dankzij de dendrochronologie, de studie van jaarringen van zowel levende bomen als dood hout en gefossiliseerd hout. Hiermee kunnen haarfijne chronologieën opgesteld worden tot duizenden jaren terug in de tijd, die ons heel veel leren over klimaatgebeurtenissen en welke impact deze hadden op de geschiedenis en de mens. Aanhoudende droogteperioden hebben bvb. meteen een impact op de landbouw en voedselvoorziening, wat kan leiden tot hongersnoden, economische crisis, politieke oproer, opstanden, oorlogen, epidemieën, pandemieën, enz. Zo zal klimaatverandering geen onbelangrijke rol gespeeld hebben in de ondergang van o.a. de Romeinen en de Maya's. A doorbell rings, however the duo discovered it was Jill, in which she thought she saw Silky. Andy confessed that it was Silky but Terry turned her into a canary. But Jill was glad and thanks Terry. Trouet has written a fascinating book - not only about how it all works - but also a peek into the life of a dendrochronologist. Perhaps contrary to popular belief, these scientists not just work in labaratoria, but actually go out into the woods, dating trees. Which, I discovered, does not mean they have to cut the tree down, but drill into a tree, which leaves the tree alive and allows them to get a sample. Trouet has worked in wide-ranging places such as Tanzania, Greece, the United States and Siberia. In lava fields, mountain ranges, and tropical jungles.

Eerst legt Valerie Trouet haarfijn en heel helder uit hoe ze zelf in de dendrochronologie gerold is. Na haar studie bio-ingenieur in Gent was het een kwestie van kansen zien en ze dankbaar grijpen, van opportuniteiten die zich op het juiste moment aandienen en ook heel hard werken. I have two complaints. Many words are defined, but only once and there are many, many words that mean something very specific. The reader is less familiar with the terminology than the author, and she forgets this. Many words can be used in a general sense This causes confusion. Complaint number two—the author goes on and on from one subject to another. The information should have been better organized. I would have preferred more structure to the information presented. On closing the book, I feel I’ve been told a huge quantity of interesting information, but I have difficulty summing up and organizing what has been said. When a tree grows, it puts on a ring. A tree ring that is. Using these tree rings allows scientists (dendrochronologists) to provide historically-accurate dates for everything ranging from Stradivarius violins to archeological ruins by dating the wood used in construction. Dendrochronologists have created a worldwide database which allows them to immediately identify the date which the tree was cut. Dendrochronology has taught us how climate changes have impacted past societies. The author goes on to speak out against deforestation, the burning of fossil fuels, greenhouse gas emissions and global warming. One can scarcely state this to be new, but nevertheless she adds her voice to those speaking out against man’s impact on the environment. She adamantly supports the urgent need for change.Vervolgens krijg je een duidelijk beeld van het studiedomein van de dendrochronologie; het is meer dan ringen tellen, zeg maar. Ook waarom het eerste dendrochronologische onderzoeksinstituut in de woestijn in Noord-Amerika is opgericht. Dat doet ze bij alles: ze ziet, ondanks het feit dat ze zelf al haar hele carrière zowat jaarringen ademt, toch nog heel helder wat er voor de leek mogelijk verrassend is of domweg niet evident. Ze gaat daar allemaal op in, zonder het te vereenvoudigen, maar ook, en dat maakt het boek echt af wat mij betreft: het is zo goed geschreven. Ze kan verhalen boeiend vertellen, ze schrijft domweg mooi, mooie zinnen, rake formuleringen én met een heerlijk gevoel voor humor, zonder dus ook maar op enig moment de lezende leek te onderschatten. Geen eenvoudige lectuur soms - sommige wetenschappelijke finesses ontgingen me -, maar ongelooflijk boeiend en leerrijk. This is really popularizing science at its best: 1. It teaches us about a highly relevant topic most of us have never heard off (how tree rings can be used as a data source for environmental and social history) 2. It is very accessible and clearly written 3. It teaches a lot about the scientific process: how to develop hypotheses, how to develop ways to test them, how to deal with data gaps, how to connect the dots between seemingly unrelated topics (and, of course, on the importance of obtaining funds) 4. It is a lively story of someone who almost stumbled into the topic she would devote her live to. At times, it really reads as an adventure story that Indiana Jones would have been jealous of. Trouet vertelt in de eerste hoofdstukken van haar boek vooral over haar vakgebied, de toepassingen ervan en de onderzoeksmethoden. Dat vond ik persoonlijk heel interessant, ook omdat ik naar een nieuwe carrière op zoek ben, en dat de dendrologie me wel kan boeien. In de andere hoofdstukken verbindt ze de bevindingen van haar en haar collega’s met geschiedkundige feiten (zoals de bloeiperiode van de oude pueblo-volkeren in Noord-Amerika en de val van het West-Romeinse Rijk), en dat kon me na een tijd veel minder boeien, omdat het wat veel opsommingen zijn. This story follows the characters, Andy and Terry, who live in their treehouse. This treehouse has a bowling alley, swimming pool, an underground laboratory, a marshmallow machine, and so much more. The story follows the story of Andy and Terry trying to write their next book, but they run into many distractions along the way. It can be used to illustrate the fact that they are breaking the fourth wall as well. I'm kind of a tree nerd having gained an interest in them after years of use because of turning. When I got a lathe, I was too cheap to practice on store bought wood, so I raided the firewood pile & found a treasure trove of gorgeous wood. That led me to stopping at houses with a downed tree to beg for wood to turn & raiding other firewood piles. I found that I didn't know what the wood was half the time, so I tried to cure my ignorance which led into studying trees for the past couple of decades.

Boeiende materie: jaarringen en wat daar allemaal uit afgeleid kan worden, maar vooral ook: hoe divers dat is en dat jaarringonderzoek in combinatie met andere wetenschappelijke disciplines zo veel verheldering kan scheppen als het gaat om het bestuderen en voorspellen van klimaatvariaties, en hoe die in het verleden duidelijk samenhingen met ingrijpende gebeurtenissen in de menselijke geschiedenis. This book seemed right up my alley & she really got my attention in the second chapter when she declared that all the wood in a tree is dead save for the cambium layer just inside the bark which other sources dispute. Most agree that the heartwood is dead even though a tree in good shape has a solid heart. There is a good deal of debate on the transition from sapwood to heartwood & some think the sapwood isn't really dead, but more in a state of very slow growth, almost dormancy. They say that if it wasn't alive, it would decay & couldn't turn into heartwood, much of which is distinctly different in color from sapwood due to collecting minerals since the sapwood is the area through which the majority of the sap rises in the tree. It makes me wonder if we have a good definition of 'dead'.The 13-Storey Treehouse won the Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the Year for Older Children 2012 [4] [5] and the 2012 COOL Award for Fiction for Older Readers. [6] Plot [ edit ]

Our Read with Oxford range of levelled readers help children develop reading confidence at home: Read with Oxford books > The Treehouse Series is a series of children’s books. They help children learn listening and reading skills. The story follows characters Andy and Terry who live in a large treehouse. It starts out having 13 stories, and it gets taller with every book. They are trying to finish the book on time, but there are many distractions that they must face first. They are from Australia, but now you can buy them in America as well. There are many lessons you can teach with these books. There is a slight difference in the titles between the Australian and American versions. The Australian title says “Storeys,” and the American version says “Stories.” These books can help cover standards of the curriculum. Hopefully, they can even inspire your students to write their own stories. Our Read with Oxford series features the much-loved characters who have been helping children learn to read for over 30 years. Children around the world know that to tell how old a tree is, you count its rings. Few people, however, know that research into tree rings has also made amazing contributions to our understanding of Earth's climate history and its influences on human civilization over the past 2,000 years. In her captivating new book, Tree Story, Valerie Trouet reveals how the seemingly simple and relatively familiar concept of counting tree rings has inspired far-reaching scientific breakthroughs that illuminate the complex interactions between nature and people.At the start of the second paragraph, Mr Big Nose will call Andy and Terry to tell them the deadline of their next book as pointed out in The 39-storey Treehouse.