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DESCRIPTION:What can trees tell us about history\, climate\, and our shared
  future?\n\nIn this interdisciplinary presentation\, artist Heather Bird H
 arris and dendrochronologist Clay Tucker\, joined in conversation by ecolo
 gist Neil Pederson\, invite audiences to read tree rings as living archive
 s—primary sources that record centuries of environmental change and huma
 n intervention.\n\nDrawing on collaborative research with some of Georgia
 ’s oldest living trees\, Harris and Tucker show how patterns of growth a
 nd stress preserved in tree rings reveal climate shifts\, ecological disru
 ption\, and the lasting impacts of American settler colonization. As clima
 te change increasingly disrupts seasonal cycles\, these rings also expose 
 a growing temporal instability\, a breakdown in the rhythms of growth and 
 rest that mirrors how our own sense of time is being unsettled by ecologic
 al upheaval. This program invites audiences to learn how to read these liv
 ing records\, expanding our understanding of time beyond human history and
  deepening awareness of the intertwined fate of all life on Earth.\n\n$5 f
 or MIT affiliates\; $15 for general public.\n\nWe have a limited number of
  free tickets available for full-time students with ID. Please reach out t
 o museumregadmin@mit.edu.
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LOCATION:MIT Museum
SUMMARY:What Trees Tell Us About Time
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