Photo of the day

May 30, 2012 Leave a comment

Recent National Geographic photo of the day:

Photo: Scientists collecting samples from a giant redwood tree

Photograph by Michael Nichols, National Geographic

This Month in Photo of the Day: Adventure and Exploration Photos

Partway up a 350-foot tree, botanist Marie Antoine (at right) passes a slender core sample of its wood—750 years of redwood biography—to canopy ecologist Giacomo Renzullo. Research now shows that the older such trees get, the more wood they put on.

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Associate Professor of Political Science at NC State http://faculty.chass.ncsu.edu/shgreene

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