Jeffrey S.
Dean, Professor
- B.A., Anthropology, Univ. of Arizona, 1961; Ph.D.,
Anthropology, Univ. of Arizona, 1967
- Other UA Depts.: GEOS,
ANTH
- Archaeological dating theory and tree-ring dating
- Effects of human behavior on date assemblages
- Applying tree-ring data to investigate fluvial processes
- Utilization of long archaeological tree-ring chronologies for
dendroclimatic reconstructions
- Integration reconstructions based on multiple
paleoenvironmental measures
- Effects of environmental fluctuations on past and present
human populations
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Katherine
Hirschboeck, Associate Professor
- B.S., Geography, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, 1973; M.S.,
Geography, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, 1975; Ph.D., Geosciences,
Univ. of Arizona, 1985
- Other UA Depts.: GEOS,
GEOG, HWR, ATMO, ALS, ISPE
- Atmospheric patterns and processes associated with climatic
variability and Global Change
- Integrate synoptic climatology with hydrology, geomorphology,
and dendrochronology to study environmental responses to varying
atmospheric circulation patterns
- Relationship between flooding and climate at global,
regional, and local scales
- Frost rings in trees as records of anomalous cooling due to
major volcanic eruptions
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Steven W.
Leavitt, Professor
- B.S., Geology, Univ. of Illinois, 1971; M.S., Environmental
Sciences, Univ. of Virginia - Charlottesville, 1977; Ph.D.,
Geosciences, Univ. of Arizona, 1982
- Other UA Depts.: GEOS,
ISPE
- Analysis of carbon-13/carbon-12 ratios in tree rings
- Reconstruct past climate (drought)
- Reconstruct past atmospheric chemistry (the changing isotopic
ratios of atmospheric CO2 resulting from fossil-fuel and
biospheric inputs)
- Seasonal isotopic signals within tree rings to reconstruct
seasonal environments
- Combining growth chamber and field experimentation
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David
Meko, Research Specialist Principal
- B.S., Meteorology, Penn. State Univ., 1972; M.S., Atmospheric
Sciences, Univ. of Arizona, 1974; Ph.D., Hydrology, Univ. of
Arizona, 1981
- Other UA Depts.:
GEOS
- Time-series methods and study of the relationship between
tree-ring and hydrologic series
- Reconstructing streamflow and drought frequency from tree
rings
- Testing the statistical evidence for a link between
solar/lunar cycles and drought as reflected in tree rings
- Effect of climatic variability on water supply, particularly
in the semi-arid southwestern United States
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Charles W. Stockton,
Professor
- B.S., Geology, Colorado State Univ., 1960; M.S.,
Hydrogeology, Colorado State Univ., 1965; Ph.D., Hydrology, Univ.
of Arizona, 1971
- Other UA Depts.: GEOS,
HWR
- Influence of climatic variability on hydrologic
processes
- Determination of long-term drought frequencies and their
effect on water supply
- Developing methods for forecasting future drought
occurrences
- Regions of special research interest: Arizona, western United
States, Morocco
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Thomas W.
Swetnam, Associate Professor
- B.S., Biology, Univ. of New Mexico, 1977; M.S.,
Forestry-Watershed Management, Univ. of Arizona, 1983; Ph.D.,
Watershed Management, Univ. of Arizona, 1987
- Other UA Depts.: GEOS,
RNR, GEOG
- Natural and human disturbances of forest ecosystems
- Multi-century histories of fire and insect outbreak
occurrences from tree-ring records
- Southwestern U.S. forests, coast redwood and giant Sequoia
stands in California
- Providing basic ecological information as well as guidance to
National Forest and Park Managers
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Ronald H.
Towner, Adjunct Assistant Professor
- B.A., History, Lewis & Clark College, 1979; M.A.,
Anthropology, Washington State Univ., 1986; Ph.D., Anthropology,
Univ. of Arizona, 1997
- Other UA Depts.: GEOS,
ANTH
- Archaeological dendrochronology
- Chronometry and archaeological dating theory
- Human/environment interaction
- The Athapaskan occupation of the Southwest
- Historical archaeology
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Faculty Emeriti
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Bryant
Bannister, Professor and Director Emeritus
- B.A., Anthropology, Yale Univ., 1944; M.A., Anthropology,
Univ. of Arizona, 1953; Ph.D., Anthropology, Univ. of Arizona,
1960
- Development and refinement of dendrochronology as an
archaeological dating tool
- Derivation, interpretation, and application of archaeological
tree-ring dates
- Construction of prehistoric chronological controls for the
American Southwest, Mexico, and the Near East
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Harold C.
Fritts, Professor Emeritus
- B.A., Botany, Oberlin College, 1951; M.S., Botany, Ohio State
Univ., 1953; Ph.D., Botany, Univ. of Ohio, 1965
- Dendrochronology theory
- Reconstruction and mapping of past North American climate
from large grids of tree-ring data
- Relationships of tree growth and environment
- Modeling tree growth with rising CO2 levels, acid rain, and
environmental pollution
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Scientific Staff
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Rex K.
Adams
- B.A., Sociology/Anthropology and Chemistry, Adams State
College, 1967; M.A., Anthropology, Eastern New Mexico Univ.,
1980
- Basic field and laboratory methods and techniques
- Public outreach to schools and
groups for presentations
- Talks and tours at the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research
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Christopher
H. Baisan
- B.S., Watershed Management, Univ. of Arizona 1991
- Ecology of forest and woodland disturbances particularily
fire and insect outbreaks as well as cultural influences on
disturbance processes
- Extracting seasonal climate from tree rings
- Examining relationships between fire, fuel accumulation rate,
and climatic patterns
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Dennie O. Bowden
- B.A., Anthropology, Univ. of Arizona 1967; M.A.,
Anthropology, Univ. of Arizona, 1973
- Dating archaeological tree-ring samples from southwestern
United States
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James M.
Burns
- B.A., Anthropology, Univ. of Arizona, 1976; A.A.S., Digital
Electronics, Pima Community College, 1982
- Densitometric data
- Image analysis
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Kaimei
Dai
- B.Sc., Physics, Nanjing University - China, 1964; Assoc.
Professor, Physics, Nanjing University - China, 1988
- Radiocarbon in tree rings to reconstruct solar variation
- Relationships between solar cycles and climate
- Isotopic variations from bomb testig and nuclear power
generation
- Radiocarbon dating
- Data analysis in dendrochronology
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Gary
Funkhouser
- B.A., Anthropology, Washington and Lee Univ., 1975; M.A.,
Anthropology, Univ. of Georgia, 1978
- Development and analysis of tree-ring chronologies
- Semi-arid regions of the US and the subarctic regions of
Russia
- Extending the 8000-year long Pinus longaeva chronology
for climatic reconstruction and calibration of the radiocarbon
time-scale
- Development of long chronologies from Siberia
- Worked in Jordan as co-director of a paleolithic excavation
at Ain-El-Assad
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Mary
Glueck
- B.S., Meteorology, Penn State Univ., 1986; M.S., Climatology,
Univ. Alaska Fairbanks, 1989; Ph.D., Air-Sea-Ice Interaction,
Univ. Alaska Fairbanks, 1999
- Climate reconstruction from tree-rings
- Synoptic climatology, meteorology,
- Physical oceanography,remote sensing
- Regional climate variability:
- High Latitude
- North America
- Morocco
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Deborah
Hemming
- B.Sc., Geography, Coventry Univ. - U.K., 1992; M.Sc.
(distinction), Applied Meteorology and Climatology, Birmingham
Univ. - U.K., 1994; Ph.D., Godwin Institute for Quaternary
Research, Univ. of Cambridge - U.K., 1999.
- Modelling stable isotope composition of tree rings
- Measurement and analysis of stable isotope ratios in tree
rings
- Feasibility and application of stable isotope measurements of
pollen
- Examining tree responses to climate and atmospheric CO2
changes
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Kiyomi
Morino
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Martin A. R.
Munro
- M.A., Archaeology, Univ. of Edinburgh, 1977; Ph.D., Queen's
Univ. of Belfast, 1983
- Image analysis for cell size measurement and densitometry in
dendrochronology
- Data analysis tools for dendrochronology
- Computer system support
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James A.
Parks
- B.A., History, Univ. of Arizona, 1990
- Crossdating of archaeological and modern samples from the
southwestern USA and the Great Basin
- Ecology of Pinus cembroides in southeastern
Arizona
- Log buildings (Quercus stellata) in central Texas
- Prehistoric and protohistoric human behavior
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Paul R.
Sheppard
- B.S., Forestry, Humboldt State Univ., 1982; M.S., Natural
Resources, Cornell Univ., 1984; Ph.D., Geosciences, Univ. of
Arizona, 1995
- Low-magnification, reflected-light image analysis of tree
rings
- Tree-ring of past geomorphological events
- Soil-tree growth relationships
- Dendrochemical measurements and environmental
interpretability
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David
Street
- H.N.C., Naval Architecture, Ministry of Defence, Bath, 1987;
B.Sc.(Hons), Archaeological Science, Univ. of Bradford, 1996
- Archaeological tree-ring dating and related theory
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Ramzi
Touchan
- B.S., Agriculture Engineering, Univ. of Aleppo, 1977; M.S.,
1986; Ph.D., Watershed Management, Univ. of Arizona, 1991
- Fire history chronologies in western US
- Dendroclimatic reconstruction from long chronologies from
giant Sequoia
- Dendrochronology in Siberia, the Near East, and Finland
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Richard L.
Warren
- B.A., Archaeology, Univ. of Arizona, 1964
- Crossdating archaeological materials
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Retired Staff
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Thomas P.
Harlan
- B.A., Anthropology, Texas Technological College, 1956; M.A.,
Anthropology, Univ. of Arizona, 1962
- Tree-ring chronologies from all continents except
Antarctica
- Developing long chronologies, especially bristlecone
pine
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Richard L.
Holmes
- B.A., Geography, Univ. of Arizona, 1967
- Tree-ring chronologies in Argentina and Chile
- Tree-ring chronologies in California, eastern Oregon, and the
northern Great Basin
- Research consultant and computer programmer
- Interactive computer programs for dendrochronology known as
the Dendrochronology Program Library
- Programs for tree-ring analysis of daily temperature
fluctuations, forest fire history, outbreaks of forest pests,
responses of closed-canopy forests, and image analysis
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Robert G.
Lofgren
- B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Univ. of Illinois 1954; M.S.,
Physics, Northwestern Univ., 1962
- Climatic variations and data sets
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