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Doug Thompson


Doug Thompson


I am a Senior Lab Instructor at UNBC. I am currently supervising a large study on decay and degrade of trees killed by mountain pine beetle, where we are cross-dating beetle killed pine to determine their year of death. I also provide research support for graduate students and faculty, and I help maintain the tree ring lab.


I completed my master's degree at UNBC, and for that research I used tree ring analyses to examine fine and intermediate scale disturbance dynamics in three different ecosystems in central British Columbia.

Doug Thompson


I am a Senior Lab Instructor at UNBC. I am currently supervising a large study on decay and degrade of trees killed by mountain pine beetle, where we are cross-dating beetle killed pine to determine their year of death. I also provide research support for graduate students and faculty, and I help maintain the tree ring lab.


I completed my master's degree at UNBC, and for that research I used tree ring analyses to examine fine and intermediate scale disturbance dynamics in three different ecosystems in central British Columbia.

Tree-Ring Related Publications:

  • Thompson, R.D., Daniels, L.D. and Lewis, K.J. 2007. A new dendroecological method to differentiate growth responses to fine-scale disturbance versus regional-scale environmental variation. Can. J. For. 37:1034-1043.
  • Lewis, K.J., Thompson, R.D. and Trummer, L.T. 2005. Growth response of spruce infected by Inonotus tomentosus in Alaska and interactions with spruce beetle. Can. J. For. Res. 35: 1455-1463.