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CURRICULUM VITA of Steven W. Leavitt June
2008 TITLE- Professor of Dendrochronology,
Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, (Phone 602-621-6468;
FAX 602-621-8229) EDUCATION- May 1982 Ph.D. Geosciences. (Dissertation title: Inference of past atmospheric d13C and PCO2 from 13C/12C
measurements in tree rings) Aug 1977 M.S.
Environmental Sciences. (Thesis title: Soil-plant relationships of nutrient and non-nutrient
metals in Louisa Co., Virginia) June 1971 B.S. Geology.
(Thesis title: The geology and genesis of magmatic iron deposits at
Kiruna and PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND- Jan 2008 to Assoc. Director, Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research
present Jul 1996 to Professor,
present Jul 1992 to Acting Director, Laboratory of Tree-Ring
Research
Jul 1993 Aug 1990 to Associate Professor of Dendrochronology,
University of
Jun 1996 Jul 1989 to Associate Professor of Geology, University of
Wisconsin-Parkside
Aug 1990 Aug 1984 to Assistant Professor of Geology, University of
Wisconsin-Parkside
Jul 1989 Jun 1982 to Post-doc Research Associate,
Jul 1984 Geosciences TEACHING EXPERIENCE- Graduate teaching assistant - Environmental
Geology, Physical Geology, Mineralogy, Optical Mineralogy, Geology Summer
Field Camp. As Professor - The Weather, Earth
& Man, Environmental Earth Science, Geochemistry, Environmental Geology,
Hydrogeology, Dendrochronology, Senior Seminar, Mineralogy, Petrology,
Introduction to Global Change, Tree Rings as Chronometers, Dendrochronology:
Biological Applications, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Introduction to Global
Change (Nats101) RESEARCH INTERESTS- Light stable-isotope geochemistry
applied to geological and environmental problems; the global carbon cycle in
geologic time and the recent imbalance from anthropogenic effects;
environmental and climate reconstructions; dendrochronology; carbon storage
in soils under high CO2 conditions. PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES- The Geochemical
Society, American Geophysical Union, The Tree-Ring Society, American
Quaternary Association, Ecological Society of PUBLICATIONS-1979 Holle, R.R., Simpson, J. and Leavitt,
S.W., 1979. GATE B-scale
cloudiness from whole-sky cameras on four Leavitt, S.W. and Goodell,
H.G., 1979. Evaluation of
biogeochemical prospecting methods in the search for sulfide deposits in the
Appalachian, Leavitt, S.W., Dueser, R.D. and
Goodell, H.G., 1979. Plant regulation
of essential and non-essential heavy metals.
J. Appl. Ecol. 16:203-212. 1982 Leavitt, S.W. and Long, A.,
1982. Evidence for 13C/12C
fractionation between tree leaves and wood.
Nature 298:742-744. Leavitt, S.W. and Long, A.,
1982. Stable carbon isotopes as a
potential supplemental tool in dendrochronology. Tree-Ring Bulletin 42:49-55. Leavitt, S.W., 1982. Annual volcanic CO2 emission: an
estimate from eruption chronologies. Environmental
Geology 4:15-21. Leavitt, S.W., Donahue, D.J.
and Long, A., 1982. Charcoal
production from wood and cellulose: implications to radiocarbon dates and
accelerator target production. Radiocarbon
24:27-35. 1983 Leavitt, S.W. and Long, A.,
1983. An atmospheric 13C/12C
reconstruction generated through removal of climate effects from tree-ring 13C/12C
measurements. Tellus 35B:92-102. Leavitt, S.W. and Long, A.,
1983. Possible climatic response of d13C (cellulose) in leaves of pinyon pine in Leavitt, S.W. and Long, A.,
1983. On a 50-year
"climate-free" d13C record
from juniper tree rings. Radiocarbon
25:267-268. 1984 Leavitt, S.W. and Long, A.,
1984. Sampling strategy for stable
carbon isotope analysis of tree rings in pine. Nature 301:145-147. 1985 Leavitt, S.W. and Long A.,
1985. Stable-carbon isotopic
composition of maple sap and foliage. Plant
Physiology 78:427-429. Leavitt, S.W. and Long, A.,
1985. The global biosphere as net CO2
source or sink: evidence from carbon
isotopes in tree rings. In Planetary Ecology, Leavitt, S.W., Long, A. and
Dean, J.S., 1985. Tree-ring dating
through pattern-matching of stable-carbon isotope time series. Tree-Ring Bulletin 45:1-9. (Published in 1986). 1986 Leavitt, S.W. and Long, A.,
1986. Trends of 13C/12C
ratios in pinyon pine tree rings of the American southwest and the global
carbon cycle. Radiocarbon 28:376-382. Leavitt, S.W. and Long, A.,
1986. Stable-carbon isotope
variability in tree foliage and wood. Ecology
67:1002-1010. 1987 Leavitt, S.W. and Long, A., 1987. Influence of site disturbance on d13C isotopic time series from tree rings. In Proceedings
of the International Symposium on Ecological Aspects of Tree-Ring Analysis,
Long, A., Leavitt, S.W. and
Cheng, S., 1987. Carbon-13/Carbon-12
variations in bristlecone pine over the past 600 years and their relation to
climate and global atmospheric CO2. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Ecological
Aspects of Tree-Ring Analysis, Leavitt, S.W. and Long, A.,
1987. Stable-carbon isotopic
composition of plants near an Leavitt, S.W., 1987. Stable-carbon isotopes in tree rings as
environmental indicators. In The Practical Applications of
Trace Elements and Isotopes to Environmental Biogeochemistry and Mineral
Resources Evaluation, Hurst, R.W., Davis, T.E. and Augustithis, S.S.,
eds. Theophrastus Publications, S.A., Athens, p. 61-73. 1988 Leavitt, S.W. and Long, A.,
1988. Intertree variability of d13C in tree rings. In Stable Isotopes in Ecological
Research, Rundel, P.W., Ehleringer, J.R., and Nagy, K.A., eds. Leavitt, S.W. and Long, A.,
1988. Stable carbon isotope
chronologies from trees in the southwestern 1989 Leavitt, S.W. and Long, A.,
1989. Drought indicated in
carbon-13/carbon-12 ratios of southwestern tree rings. Water Resources Bulletin 25:341-347. Leavitt, S.W. and Long, A.,
1989. Accelerator-measured 14C
activity in tree rings from the vicinity of the first atomic bomb test. Radiocarbon 31:762-765. Leavitt, S.W. and Long, A.,
1989. The atmospheric d13C record as derived from 56 pinyon trees at 14 sites
in the southwestern Leavitt, S.W. and Long, A.,
1989. Variation of concentration, 14C
activity and 13C/12C ratios of CO2 in air
samples from 1990 Leavitt, S.W. and Parkhurst,
G.P., 1990. Radon concentrations in
water from private wells in southeastern 1991 Leavitt, S.W., 1991, The Great Lakes forest fires of 8-10
October 1871. In Global Biomass Burning, Levine, J.S., ed., MIT Press, Leavitt, S.W. and Danzer, S.R., 1991. Chronology from plant matter. Nature 352: 671. Leavitt, S.W. and Long, A.,
1991. Seasonal stable-carbon isotope
variability in tree rings: possible paleoenvironmental signals. Chemical Geology (Isotope Geoscience
Section) 87:59-70. 1992 Leavitt, S.W., 1992. Isotopes
and trace elements in tree rings. Lundqua Report 34:
182-190. Leavitt,
S.W., 1992. Stable-carbon isotope
time series from tree rings of Two Creeks wood (ca. 11,800 yr BP). Lundqua Report 34:
191-192. Hughes, M.K. and Leavitt, S.W.,
1992. Report of the workshop,
Prospects for temporal extension of the radiocarbon calibration, Leavitt, S.W. and Kalin, R.M.,
1992. A new tree-ring width, d13C and 14C investigation of the Two Creeks
site. Radiocarbon 34:792-797. Leavitt, S.W. and Danzer, S.R.,
1992. d13C variations
in C3 plants over the past 50,000 years. Radiocarbon 34:783-791. Leavitt, S.W. and Long, A.,
1992. Altitudinal differences in d13C of bristlecone pine. Naturwissenschaften 79:178-180. Leavitt, S.W., Paul, E.A.,
Kimball, B.A. and Hendrey, G.R., 1992.
Isotopic estimation of inputs of carbon to cotton soils under FACE CO2
enrichment. DOE Research Summary, No. 22, December, 4 pp. Leavitt, S.W. and Newberry, T.,
1992. Systematics of stable-carbon
isotopic differences between gymnosperm and angiosperm trees. Plant Physiol. (Life Sci. Adv.) 11:257-262. 1993 Leavitt S.W. and Danzer, S.R.,
1993. Method for batch processing small wood samples to holocellulose for
stable-carbon isotope analysis. Analytical Chemistry 65:87-89. Leavitt, S.W., 1993. Seasonal 13C/12C
changes in tree rings: species and site
coherence, and a possible drought influence. Canadian Journal of Leavitt, S.W., 1993. Environmental Information from 13C/12C
ratios of wood. Geophysical
Monograph 78:325-331 (Amer.
Geophys. Schimmelmann, A., Miller, R.F. and Leavitt, S.W., 1993.
Hydrogen isotopic exchange and stable isotope ratios in cellulose,
wood, chitin, and amino acids. Geophysical
Monograph 78:367-374 (Amer.
Geophys. Dupouey, J.-L., Leavitt, S.,
Choisnel, E. and Jourdain, S., 1993. Modelling carbon isotope fractionation in
tree rings based on effective evapotranspiration and soil water status. Plant,
Cell and Environ. 16:939-947. Leavitt,
S.W., 1993. Review of Geomorphic Responses to Climatic Change
by William B. Bull, Bull. Am. Meteorol.
Soc. 74:105. 1994 Van de Water, P.K., Leavitt,
S.W. and Betancourt, J.B., 1994.
Trends in stomatal density and 13C/12C leaves
during the last glacial-interglacial cycle.
Science 264:
239-243. Leavitt, S.W., 1994. Major wet interval in White Mountains
Medieval Warm Period evidenced in d13C of bristlecone
pine tree rings. Climatic Change
26:299-307. Leavitt, S.W. and Lara, A.,
1994. South American tree rings show
declining δ13C trend. Tellus
46B: 152-157. Leavitt, S.W., Paul, E.A., Kimball,
B.A., Hendrey, G.R., Mauney, J.R., Rauschkolb, R., Rogers, Jr., H., Lewin,
K.F., Nagy, J., Pinter, Jr., P.J. and Johnson, H.B., 1994. Carbon isotope
dynamics of CO2-enriched FACE cotton and soils. Agricultural and Leavitt,
S.W., 1994. Review of Climate Change and Human Impact on the
Landscape by F.M. Chambers (ed.), Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc. 75: 640-641. 1995 Leavitt, S.W., Liu, Y., Hughes,
M.K., Liu, R., An, Z., Gutierrez, G.M., Danzer, S.R. and Shao, X., 1995. A
single-year d13C chronology from Pinus tabulaeformis (Chinese pine)
tree rings at Leavitt, S.W., Hughes, M.K.,
Liu, Y., and An, Z., 1995.
Stable-carbon isotope tree-ring chronologies from Xian, Paul, E.A., Horwath, W.R., Harris, D., Follett, R., Leavitt, S.W., Kimball, B.A. and
Pregitzer, K., 1995. Establishing the
pool sizes and fluxes in CO2 emissions from soil organic matter
turnover. In Advances in Soil Science: Soils and Global Change, Lal, R.,
Kimble, J., Levine, E. and Stewart, B.A., eds., Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton,
Florida, p. 297-305. 1996 Liu, Y., Leavitt, S.W.,
Hughes, M.K., and Wu, X., 1996. Stable
carbon isotopes in tree rings from Leavitt, S.W., Follett, R.F.
and Paul, E.A., 1996. Estimation of
slow and fast-cycling organic carbon pools from 6N HCl hydrolysis. Radiocarbon 38: 231-239. Leavitt, S.W., Paul, E.A.,
Pendall, E., Pinter, P.J. and Kimball, B.A., 1996. Field variability of carbon isotopes in
soil organic carbon. Nuclear
Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B 123: 451-454. 1997 Leavitt, S.W., Paul, E.A.,
Galadima, A., Nakayama, F.S., Danzer, S.R., Johnson, H. and Kimball, B.A.,
1997. Carbon isotopes and carbon
turnover in cotton and wheat FACE experiments. Plant and Soil 187: 147-155. Follett, R.F., Paul, E.A., Leavitt,
S.W., Halvorson, A.D. and Peterson, G.A., 1997. Determination of soil organic matter pool
sizes and dynamics: 13C/12C ratios of Bert, D., Leavitt, S.W. and
Dupouey, J.-L., 1997. Variations of wood d13C and water-use
efficiency of Abies alba during the
last century. Ecology 78: 1588-1596. Paul, E.A., Follett, R.F., Leavitt,
S.W., Halvorson, A., Peterson, G. and Pewe, T.L., Berger, G.W., Westgate, J.A., Brown, P.M.
and Leavitt, S.W., 1997. Leavitt,
S.W., 1997. Review of Nuclear Techniques in Soil-Plant Studies for Sustainable Agriculture
and Environmental Preservation by IAEA and FAO. Radiocarbon 39: 355. 1998 Shanley,
J.B. and 25 other authors including Leavitt,
S.W., 1998. Isotopes as indicators
of environmental change. In Isotope Tracers in Catchment
Hydrology, Thompson,
T.L., Leavitt, S.W., Wright, W.E. and
Long, A., 1998. ENSO signal in d13C of pre‑ and post‑False Latewood of
ponderosa Pine Tree Rings in Leavitt, S.W., 1998. Review of Global Continental Palaeohydrology by K.J. Gregory, L. Starkel,
and V.R. Baker (eds.), Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. 79: 665-666. Leavitt, S.W., 1998. Review of Biogeochemistry, An Analysis of Global Change by W.H.
Schlesinger, EOS (Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union) 79(2): 20. 1999 Leavitt, S.W., Wright, W.E. and Long, A., 1999. Evidence
for ENSO in tree-ring d13C along a 500-km E-W transect in
southern Wright,
W.E., Leavitt, S.W., Long, A.,
1999. ENSO teleconnections: Eastern
Pacific Sea Surface temperature correlations with d18O in southeastern Kimball, B.A., LaMorte, R.L., Pinter Jr., P.J., Wall, G.W., Hunsaker,
D.J., Adamsen, F.J., Leavitt, S.W.,
Thompson, T.L., Matthias, A.D., and Brooks, T.J., 1999. Free-air CO2 enrichment (FACE)
and soil nitrogen effects on energy balance and evapotranspiration of
wheat. Water Resour. Res. 35(4): 1179-1190. Pendall, E., Betancourt, J.L. and Leavitt,
S.W., 1999. Paleoclimatic
significance of dD and d13C values
in piņon pine needles from packrat middens spanning the last 40,000 years. Palaeogeography,
Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 147:
53-72. Adamsen, F.J., Pinter, P.J., Barnes, E.M., LaMorte, R.L., Wall, G.W., Leavitt, S.W. and Kimball, B.A.,
1999. Measuring wheat senescence with
a digital camera. Crop Science 39: 719-724. 2000 Adam, N.R., Wall, G.W., Kimball, B.A.,
Pinter, P.J. Jr., LaMorte, R.L., Hunsaker, D.J., Adamsen, F.J., Thompson, T.,
Matthias, A.D., Leavitt, S.W., and
Webber, A.N., 2000. Acclimation response
of spring wheat in a free-air CO2 enrichment (FACE) atmosphere with variable
soil nitrogen regimes. I. Leaf position and phenology determine acclimation
response. Photosynthesis Research
66: 65-77. Brooks, T.J.,
Wall, G.W., Pinter, P.J., Kimball, B.A., LaMorte, R.L., Leavitt, S.W., Matthias, A.D., Adamsen, F.J., Hunsaker, D.J. and
Webber, A.N., 2000. Acclimation
response of spring wheat in a free-air CO2 enrichment (FACE)
atmosphere with variable soil nitrogen regimes: Canopy architecture and gas
exchange. Photosynthesis Research 66(1-2): 97-108. Hunsaker D.J., Kimball B.A., Pinter
P.J., Wall G.W., LaMorte R.L., Adamsen F.J., Leavitt S.W.,Thompson T.L., Matthias A.D. and Brooks T.J., 2000.
CO2 enrichment and soil nitrogen effects on wheat evapotranspiration
and water use efficiency. Agriculture
and Pinter Jr., P.J., Kimball, B.A., Wall, G.W., LaMorte, R.L., Hunsaker,
D.J., Adamsen, F.J., Frumau, K.F.A., Vugts, H.F., Hendrey, G.R., Lewin, K.F.,
Nagy, J., Johnson, H.B., Wechsung, F., Leavitt,
S.W., Thompson, T.L., Matthias, A.D., and Brooks, T.J., 2000. Free-air CO2 enrichment (FACE):
blower effects on wheat canopy microclimate and plant development. Agriculture and Sinclair, T.R., Pinter Jr., P.J., Kimball, B.A., Adamsen, F.J.,
LaMorte, R.L., Wall, G.W., Hunsaker, D.J., Adam, N., Brooks, T.J., Garcia,
R.L., Thompson, T., Leavitt, S.,
Matthias, A., 2000. Leaf nitrogen
concentration of wheat subjected to elevated [CO2] and either water
or N deficiencies. Agriculture
Ecosystems and Environment 79:
53-60. Wall,
G.W., Adam, N.R., Brooks, T.J., Kimball, B.A., Pinter,
P.J. Jr., LaMorte, R.L., Adamsen, F.J., Hunsaker,
D.J., Wechsung, G., Wechsung, F., Grossman-Clarke,
S., Leavitt, S.W., Matthias, A.D., Webber, A.N. Acclimation
response of spring wheat in a free-air CO2 enrichment (FACE)
atmosphere with variable soil nitrogen regimes. 2. Net assimilation and
stomatal conductance of leaves. Photosynthesis Research 66:
79-95. Wechsung, F., Garcia, R.L., Wall, G.W., Kartschall, T., Kimball, B.A.,
Michaelis, P., Pinter Jr., P.J., Wechsung, G., Grossman-Clarke, S., LaMorte,
R.L., Adamsen, F.J., Leavitt, S.W.,
Thompson, T.L., Matthias, A.D., and Brooks, T.J., 2000. Photosynthesis and
conductance of spring wheat ears: field response to free-air CO2
enrichment and limitations in water and nitrogen supply. Plant, Cell and Environment 23: 917-929. 2001 Cousins, A.B., Adam, N.R., Wall, G.W.,
Kimball, B.A., Pinter, P.J. Jr., Leavitt,
S.W., LaMorte, R.L.,Matthias, A.D., Ottman, M.J., Thompson, T.L., and
Webber, A.N., 2001. Reduced
photorespiration and increased energy-use efficiency in young CO2-enriched
sorghum leaves. New Phytologist 150:
275-284. Conley, M.M., Kimball, B.A., Brooks,
T.J., Pinter, P.J., Hunsaker, D.J., Wall, G.W., Adam, N.R., LaMorte, R.L.,
Matthias, A.D., Thompson, T.L., Leavitt,
S.W., Ottman, M.J., Cousins, A.B., and Triggs, J.M., 2001. CO2
enrichment increases water-use efficiency in sorghum. New Phytologist 151: 407-412. Danzer, S.R., Leavitt, S.W.,
Panyushkina, Grant R.F., Kimball B.A., Brooks T.J.,
Wall G.W., Pinter P.J. Jr., Hunsaker D.J., Adamsen F.J., Lamorte R.L., Leavitt S.W., Thompson T.L., and
Matthias A.D., 2001. Modeling interactions among carbon dioxide, nitrogen,
and climate on energy exchange of wheat in a free air carbon dioxide
experiment. Agronomy Journal 93(3): 638-649. Hemming,
D., Fritts, H., Leavitt, S.W.,
Wright, W., Long, A., Shashkin, A., 2001.
Modelling tree-ring d13C. Dendrochronologia 19(1): 23-38. Hemming,
D., Jalkanen, R. and Leavitt, S.W.,
2001. Preliminary relationships
between climate and the apical extension, needle production and ring width of
Pinus ponderosa in Kimball,
B.A., Morris, C.F., Pinter, P.J. Jr., Wall, G.W., Hunsaker, D.J., Adamsen,
F.J., LaMorte, R.L., Leavitt, S.W.,
Thompson, T.L., Matthias, A.D., and Brooks, T.J., 2001. Elevated CO2, drought and soil
nitrogen effects on wheat grain quality. New Phytologist 150: 295-303. Leavitt, S.W., 2001. Seasonal response of d13C in Pinus
resinosa Ait. seedling growth rings to changing environment in controlled
growth experiments. Dendrochronologia
19(1): 9-22. Leavitt, S.W. and Baisan, C.H., 2001. Variability of seasonal d13C patterns in Apache pine from southern Leavitt, S.W., Pendall, E., Paul, E.A., Brooks, T.,
Kimball, B.A., Pinter, P.J. Jr., Johnson, H.B., Matthias, A., Wall, G.W., and
LaMorte, R.L., 2001. Stable-carbon
isotopes and soil organic carbon in wheat under CO2
enrichment. New Phytologist 150: 305-314. Leavitt, S.W., Wright, W.E., Long, A. and Fritts,
H., 2001. A century-length tree-ring d13C
chronology from southeastern Liu, Y.,
Ma, L., Hughes, M.K., Garfin-Woll, G.M., Cai, Q., An, Z., and Leavitt, S.W., 2001. Seasonal temperature reconstruction from
central Matthias,
A.D., Leavitt, S.W., Thompson,
T.L., Kimball, B.A., Pinter Jr., P.J., Wall, G.W., Rauschkolb, R.S., Ottman,
R.L., Roth, R.L., Brooks, T.J., Adam, N.R., LaMorte, R.L., Wechsung, G.,
Wechsung, F., Adamsen, F.J., Williams, D.G., Nakayama, F.S., Hunsaker, D.J.,
Watson, J., White, S.A., and Welzmiller, J., 2001. Free-air CO2 enrichment effects
on wheat and sorghum at Paul, E.A., Collins, H.P. and Leavitt,
S.W., 2001. Dynamics of resistant
soil carbon of Midwestern agricultural soils measured by naturally occurring 14C
abundance. Geoderma 104: 239-256. Pendall, E., Leavitt, S.W.,
Brooks, T., Kimball, B.A., Pinter, P.J. Jr., Wall, G.W., LaMorte, R.L.,
Wechsung, G., Wechsung, F., Adamsen, F., Matthias, A.D., Thompson, T.L.,
2001. Elevated CO2
stimulates soil respiration in a FACE wheat field. Basic and Applied Ecology 2: 193-201. Ottman,
M.J., Kimball, B.A., Pinter, P.J. Jr., Wall, G.W., Vanderlip, R.L., Leavitt, S.W., LaMorte, R.L.,
Matthias, A.D., and Brooks, T.J., 2001.
Elevated increases sorghum biomass under drought conditions. New
Phytologist 150: 261-273. Rillig M.C., Wright S.F., Kimball B.A., Pinter P.J. Jr., Wall G.W., Ottman M.J., Leavitt S.W., 2001. Elevated carbon dioxid |