Tomasz Wazny
Tel. (Lab): 60-255-8650
Email: tjw42@cornell.edu
Tomasz joined the lab as a Research Associate in 2006 from the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland. He has 25 years of experience in dendrochronology and wood science working extensively in Europe from Portugal to Poland, but also East Asia, with work from alpine zones to the tropics. He has worked and published on a wide variety of dendro topics - from works of art through shipwrecks to climate reconstruction on the basis of historical timbers.
Career
- M.Sc Eng. - Wood Technology, Agriculture University of Warsaw, Poland, 1981.
- Ph.D - Wood Biology, University of Hamburg, Germany 1990.
- Habilitation (postdoctoral lecturing qualification) - Agriculture University of Poznan, Poland, 1999
- Professor of Forestry and Wood Science (scientific title confered by the President of Poland), 2006>
Research interests
- Development of long-term tree-ring chronologies
- Dating of archaeological, architectural, and art-historical objects
- Dendroclimatology
- climate reconstruction from historical chronologies;
- long-term changes in climate;
- reconstruction of trans-regional climatic disturbances
- Dendroecology
- reconstruction of the forest structure and past vegetation;
- Dendrochronology in Asia
- history of settlements in High Asia;
- human activity as an indicator of climate change;
- possibilities of dendrochronological reconstruction of palaeo-monsoon variability.
- Timber trade in Europe
- Dendroprovenancing – estimation of wood origins
- Dendrochronological examination of shipwrecks and boats
- Development of dendrochronology and dendroprovenancing methods for the Mediterranean
- Problems of protection and conservation of wooden cultural heritage
Selected Publications
- PARK, W-K., KIMA, Y-J., SEO, J-W. & WAZNY, T. (2007) Tree-ring dating of Sinmu-Mun, the north gate of Kyungbok Palace in Seoul. Tree-Ring Research, 63: 105-109.
- POKLEWSKI-KOZIELL, T. & WAZNY, T. (2006) The Leczyca evidence of planting an industrial forest about the year 1590. Fasciculi Archaeologica Historicae, 18: 29-34 [PDF].
- INDRUSZEWSKI, G., NILSSON, M. & WAZNY, T. (2006) The ships that connected people and the people that commuted by ships: The western Baltic case-study. IN: Blue, L., Hocker, F. & Englert, A. Connected by the Sea. Proceedings of the Tenth International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology, Roskilde 2003. 177-186. Oxbow Books, Oxford.
- WAZNY, T. (2005) The origin, assortments and transport of Baltic timber. IN: van de Velde, C., van Acker, J., Beeckman, H. & Verhaeghe, F. Constructing Wooden Images: proceedings of a symposium on the organization of labour and working practices of late Gothic carved altarpieces in the Low Countries, Brussels 25-26 October 2002, Brussels. 115-126. VUB Press [PDF].
- HANECA, K., WAZNY, T., VAN ACKER, J. & BEECKMAN, H. (2005) Provenancing Baltic timber from art historical objects: success and limitations. Journal of Archaeological Science, 32: 261-271 [URL].
- WAZNY, T. (2002) Baltic timber in Western Europe – an exciting dendrochronological question. Dendrochronologia, 20: 313-320 [URL].
- PARK, W-K., LEE, J-H., KIM, Y-J. & WAZNY, T. (2002) Tree-ring dating for Sinmu-mun, the North Gate of Kyongbok Palace in Seoul. International Conference on East Asian Architectural History, October 17-19, 2002. 615-621. Seoul: Korean Association of Architectural History [PDF].
- WAZNY, T. (2001) Wood and climate of the year 1000 AD. IN: Urbanczyk, P. Europe around the year 1000. 101-107. Inst. of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences and Wyd. DiG, Warszawa [PDF].
- SCHMIDT, B., WAZNY, T., MALLA, K., HOFS, E. & KHALESI, M. (1999) Chronologies for historical dating in High Asia/Nepal. IN: Wimmer, R. & Vetter, R. E. Tree ring analysis: biological, methodological and environmental aspects. 205-211. CAB International [PDF].
- BUCKLEY, B., FRAVER, S., HANSON, R., HARLEY, D., HOCHMAN, R., MURPHY, A. & WAZNY, T. (1999) Dendroclimatology along cliff environments of northeastern West Virginia: a comparison of ridgetop pines and cliff-line red cedar [PDF].
- BONDE, N., TYERS, I. & WAZNY, T. (1997) Where Does The Timber Come From? Dendrochronological Evidence of the Timber Trade in Northern Europe. IN: Sinclair, A., Slater, E. & Gowlett, J. Archaeological Science 1995. 201-204. Oxbow Books, Oxford [PDF].
- WAZNY, T. (1994) Dendrochronology of Biskupin - absolute dating of the early iron-age settlement. Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Biological Sciences, 42: 283-289 [PDF].
- WAZNY, T. (1993) Dendrochronological dating of the Lusatian culture settlement at Biskupin - first results. News WARP, 14: 3-5.
- WAZNY, T. (1992) Historical timber trade and its implications on dendrochronological dating. Proceedings International Symposium "Tree rings and environment," 3-9 Sept. 1990, Ystad, Sweden. Lundqua Report, 34: 331-333 [PDF].
- WAZNY, T. & ECKSTEIN, D. (1991) The dendrochronological signal of oak (Quercus spp.) in Poland. Dendrochronologia, 9: 181-191.
- KLEIN, P. & WAZNY, T. (1991) Dendrochronological analyses of paintings of Gdansk painters of the 15th to the 17th century. Dendrochronologia, 9: 181-191 [PDF].
- ECKSTEIN, D., WAZNY, T., BAUCH, J. & KLEIN, P. (1986) New evidence for the dendrochronological dating of Netherlandish paintings. Nature, 320: 465-466 [URL].
Tomasz Wazny (Research Associate)
