Patricia Joy Young: 

Patricia Joy Young  is a Ph.D. candidate, Gilbert Foundation Fellow and  Research Associate in the School of Renewable Natural Resources at Louisiana State University. Her Ph.D. work concerns baldcypress growth under environmental stress.  Her master’s work was in dendrochronology (tree ring analysis). 

Her research experience includes work at the Savannah River Ecology Lab in South Carolina (UGA), the University of South Carolina, the National Biological Service Lab in Lafayette, Louisiana, and the Tree Ring lab at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. 

She has done tree ring analysis on a number of forest tree species including baldcypress, loblolly pine, American chestnut, yellow-poplar, hemlock, and several oak species. She has developed chronologies for trees exceeding 900 years of age.  Patricia Young  has also received advanced training in dendrochronological techniques from the Laboratory of Tree Ring Research in Tucson, Arizona. She has taught a tree ring analysis workshop for the Society of Wetland Scientists and taught a graduate level course in Dendrochronology at LSU.  She has consulted for the National Wetlands Research Center in Lafayette, Louisiana, Arkansas State University, the Louisiana Forest Product Lab, and for a number of private individuals and firms. 

Selected Publications

Young, P.J. and M.K. Cleaveland. 2000.  Twisted increment cores: getting it straight. Tree Ring Bulletin 56: 21-22.

Keeland, B.D. and P.J. Young.  1999.  Long-term growth trends of baldcypress (Taxodium distichum (L.) Rich) at Caddo Lake, Texas.  Wetlands 17(4):559-566.

Young, P.J., B.D. Keeland, and R.R. Sharitz.  1995. Growth response of baldcypress (Taxodium distichum (L.) Rich) to an altered hydrologic regime.  Am Midl. Nat. 133: 206-212.

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