Paleoecology Return to the storm A Journey Through Time Paleoecology in the field.
Paleoecology is the study of past organisms and the environment in which they lived.
The article discusses the paleoecological study that Dr. Cooper is supervising in the Neuse and Pamlico estuaries of North Carolina. If you have ever looked at tree rings, you know something about environmental indicators. We can see the patterns in the rings, then figure out how old the tree is by counting the rings. Count back, and you know when the condition occurred. No, there are not microscopic tree rings.