Final fieldwork of the season at Big Rock Creek in SoCal was made much cooler by the monsoon rolling in! This site is part of my project using tree rings to reconstruct atmospheric rivers in SoCal, but maybe there’s a monsoon story hiding in the wood too 👀

Fieldwork this past weekend with the AMAZING @olross.bsky.social and Dervla Meegan-Kumar in the Cleveland National Forest. NSF-funded, I’m using tree-ring width to reconstruct atmospheric river variability in Southern California, which will help us better prepare for future storms in the region.