Amy Hessl Biography

WVU professor and researcher Amy Hessl is a dendrochronologist a trained expert in analyzing past climate conditions by studying the growth rings in trees.

In the summer of 2010 Hessl had the opportunity to work as the principal investigator on a National Geographic-sponsored project in Mongolia focused on how climate change might have affected the regions risks of wildfire. She teamed with colleague, Neil Pederson of Columbia Universitys Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, and Baatarbileg Nachin, a professor at National University of Mongolia, and a squad of his undergraduate students before heading out into a remote Mongolian countryside in search of tell tale wood samples.

They journeyed to a high-elevation site that other researchers had found to contain trees that were hundreds of years old. They found that the site had burned, which gave them valuable data on the fire cycle in the region.

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