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Membership in the Tree-Ring Society
Membership in the Tree-Ring Society includes a subscription to the journal TREE-RING RESEARCH and announcements of future meetings and workshops oriented to tree-ring studies.  Currently the Society has over 350 members from over 30 countries.
   
Three classes of membership are available: 
  • Individual: $40
  • Student (with letter from faculty advisor): $20
  • Institution: $50
To become a member, please fill out the member application form and send in with your payment. 
   
(Payment of membership fee by credit card is open to members in most countries, but does require confirmation of card number through PayPal account.  Please follow the link from the member application form to the credit card payment system for further details.)
The Tree-Ring Society was founded in 1935 by A.E. Douglass and several archaeological colleagues at the third Tree-Ring Conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico.  Douglass and the new science of dendrochronology had recently won worldwide acclaim by providing precise dates for construction of many of the great pueblo villages of the southwestern US.  The first issue of the TREE-RING BULLETIN was published the year before, and Douglass was elected as the first President of the new society dedicated to strengthening the fledging discipline of dendrochronology.  During the following years, the Society maintained a very close relationship with the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research at the University of Arizona in Tucson, founded by Douglass in 1937.

Dendrochronology today consists of numerous laboratories and individual scientists that benefit from a professional association that serves as a conduit for the latest news of the discipline and serves to promote tree-ring research to the larger scientific community. The membership of the Society is reflective of the global nature of contemporary tree-ring research.

The Society is governed by an Executive Board elected to serve from 2008 to 2009:
    President: Jim Speer
      Indiana State University
       jspeer3 [at] indstate.edu
    Vice President: Elaine Kennedy-Sutherland
      US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station
       esutherland [at] fs.fed.us
    Secretary:  Peter Brown
       Rocky Mountain Tree-Ring Research
       pmb [at] rmtrr.org
    Treasurer: Thomas Swetnam
      Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona
       tswetnam [at] ltrr.arizona.edu
    Editor: Steve Leavitt
      Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona
       sleavitt [at] ltrr.arizona.edu
    Member-at-Large: Steve Nash
      Denver Museum of Nature and Science
      stephen.nash [at] dmns.org
    Member-at-Large: Kevin Smith
      US Forest Service, Northern Research Station
      ktsmith [at] fs.fed.us
    Member-at-Large: Jacques Tardif
      Canada Research Chair in Dendrochronology, Univ of Winnipeg
      j.tardif [at] uwinnipeg.ca
        
    Society Bylaws

For questions or comments, contact Peter M. Brown (pmb [at] rmtrr.org)
Last update: May 13, 2008
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