Dr Gretel Ingrid Boswijk

Nine to Noon, Radio NZ, 19/7/19, Re Kauri Tree-ring sequence;  

" ... We can fit it in, in time going back progressivelty to two thousand, four hundred and 88 (2488 BC),
using kauri from living trees and sawn timber from buildings"

 studied archaeology at the University of Sheffield, England and then specalised in dendrochronology. In late 1999, I returned to New Zealand to take up a post-doctoral research fellowship and in 2008 was appointed as a Senior Lecturer with the School. 

My research interests are broadly in environmental history and environmental change. I am largely responsible for development of a 4500-year long tree ring record from kauri, used for palaeoclimate reconstruction, radiocarbon calibration, and dendroarchaeological dating of historic-era structures. Much of this work has been funded by RSNZ Marsden and FRST/MBIE grants.

Tree ring analysis of kauri, and particularly timber elements from structures, stimulated my interest in environmental history/historical geography/archaeology in New Zealand. One area of particular interest is the environmental and socio-economic history of kauri.

g.boswijk@auckland.ac.nz

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