Friday, September 12, 2008

Listening to Trees


Life Changers, a five-episode documentary series of half hour programs, recently partnered with Mount Allison University to produce a television program about research at Mount A.

Traveling to universities across the region, this series highlights extraordinary work, groundbreaking research and Atlantic Canada’s most innovative thinkers who are committed to solving the greatest challenges of this new century.

Mount Allison’s feature is entitled “Listening to Trees” and chronicles the work of Dr. Colin Laroque and his student researchers in the Dendrochronology Lab. This research involves tree ring analysis – the dating of trees and heritage buildings.

Their cutting edge work is leading to breakthroughs in better understanding the affects of attendant climate change on our environment.

This new episode will air on ASN on Sunday, September 21 from 12:30 until 1 p.m. (AST). The AAU will be running 30-second spots on the CTV network promoting the show beginning on Monday, September 15.

Life Changers is produced by the Association of Atlantic Universities (AAU) on behalf of its 17 member institutions.

Read more about the show and view past episodes (Mount Allison’s episode will be there soon) detailing research at other universities.


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