Valerie Trouet (she/her)

Bob Bronshoff

Valerie Trouet is a professor in the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research at the University of Arizona. She received her Ph.D. in Bioscience Engineering at the KULeuven in Belgium in 2004 and has worked at PennState University and at the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL before moving to Tucson. Trouet has been a dendrochronologist for almost two decades and her research focuses on the climate of the past 2,000 years and how it has influenced human systems and ecosystems. Her most recent book is "In the Circle of Ancient Trees."

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Awards: World Wildlife Fund's Jan Wolkers Prize 2020

Communities: Arizona Author, Tucsonan, woman scientist

Books:

In the Circle of Ancient Trees

Our Oldest Trees and the Stories They Tell
Nature / Environment
Greystone Books Limited
October 2025
ISBN 9781778402685
224 pages

Tree Story

The History of the World Written in Rings
Nature / Environment
Johns Hopkins University Press
May 2022
ISBN 9781421443744
264 pages