In 1989, Gordon Jacoby and Rosanne D’Arrigo (above), the Lab’s first PhD student and now associate director of the Division of Biology and Paleo-Environment, published a landmark reconstruction of temperatures dating back 300 years across North America. The records show the effects of global warming. Photo courtesy of Gordon Jacoby
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