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| THOMAS
WILLIAM SWETNAM
EDUCATION
 | University of New Mexico, B. S.,
1977, General Biology, Chemistry |
| University of Arizona, M. S., 1983,
Ph.D. 1987, Watershed Management, Dendrochronology |
EMPLOYMENT
| 2000 to Present: Director &
Professor of Dendrochronology, Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research;
joint appointments in Watershed Management, School of Natural Resources, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, and Geography &
Regional Development |
| 1994-1999: Associate Professor of
Dendrochronology, Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research |
| 1988-1994: Assistant Professor of
Dendrochronology, Laboratory of Tree Ring Research |
| 1987-1988: Research Associate,
Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research |
| 1980-1987: Graduate
Assistant/Associate in Research, Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research,
University of Arizona |
| 1978-1980: Forestry Technician, Gila
Wilderness, New Mexico, U. S. Forest Service |
| 1976-1977: Park Technician, Grand
Canyon National Park, Arizona, National Park Service |
AWARDS & HONORS
| A. E. Douglass Scholarship Award University of
Arizona (1983) |
| Visiting Scientist at Aldo Leopold
Wilderness Research Institute, Missoula Montana (1994)
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| Walter Orr Roberts Lecturer, Aspen
Global Change Institute, Aspen Colorado (1999) |
| Weaver Lecturer, School of Forestry
and Wildlife Science, Auburn University (2000) |
| W. S. Cooper Award, Ecological
Society of America (2001, with Julio Betancourt) |
| Henry Cowles Award, The Association
of American Geographers, Biogeography Specialty Group (2002, with
James Speer, Boyd Wickman, and Andy Youngblood) |
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
Advisory:
| Board of Trustees, Valles Caldera
National Preserve (appointed by President William J. Clinton,
2000-2004) |
| Arizona Forest Health Advisory
Council (appointed by Governor Janet Napolitano, 2003-2006) |
| Arizona Climate Change Advisory
Group (appointed by Governor Janet Napolitano, 2005-present) |
| Board of Advisors, Institute for
Natural Resource Management, New Mexico NSF-EPSCOR Program
(2003-present) |
| Board of Advisors, Wyoming NSF-EPSCOR Program
(2005-present) |
| Board of Advisors, International
Multiproxy Paleofire Database, National Climatic Data Center, NOAA
(2002-present) |
Editorial Boards:
| Associate Editor, International
Journal of Wildland Fire, 1993-present |
| Editor, Tree-Ring Research
(formerly Tree-Ring Bulletin) 2000-2001 |
| Associate Editor, Ecoscience,
1994-1998 |
| Associate Editor, Canadian
Journal of Forest Research, 1998 |
| Editorial Board, Ecological
Applications, 1998-1999 |
| Associate Editor,
Dendrochronlogia, 2005-present |
| Co-Editor with J. Dean and D. Meko
on special issue of Radiocarbon, 1996 |
Memberships in Professional Societies:
| Ecological Society of America,
(Annual Meetings Program Chair 2003-2004) |
| American Quaternary Association
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| American Geophysical Union
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| Tree-Ring Society (Treasurer
2002-present) |
| The Society of Sigma XI |
| Society of American Foresters
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| The Association for Fire Ecology
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RESEARCH GRANTS AND CONTRACTS SINCE
1994
Title, dates, and funding source.
Co-PIs, associates, collaborators, and students most directly
involved in the research are listed in parentheses.
| A tree-ring history of western
spruce budworm and Douglas-fir tussock moth history in the Blue
Mountains, Oregon, 11/90 to 06/95, US Forest Service, Pacific
Northwest Research Station. (Boyd Wickman, Chris Baisan, Richard
Holmes) |
| Fire history and climatology in the
southern and central Sierra Nevada, 6/93 to 5/97, National Park
Service, Global Change Program. (Chris Baisan, Kiyomi Morino)
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| Dendrochronology/Paleoenvironmental
research at Bandelier National Monument, 7/93 to 6/94, National
Park Service. (Craig Allen, Chris Baisan) |
| Paleofire and climate history in
Siberia, 7/93 to 12/94, National Science Foundation. (Chris
Baisan, Alex Shashkin, Eugene Vaganov) |
| Long-term dynamics of whitebark pine
in the Sawtooth-Salmon River region, Idaho, 5/94 to 9/94, US ,
Forest Service, Intermountain Research Station. (Dana Perkins)
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| Role of climate in masting,
recruitment and mortality of pinyon pine, 6/94 to 6/96, US Forest
Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. (Julio Betancourt, Jerry
Gottfried) |
| A millennial length reconstruction
of climate for the middle Rio Grande Basin from tree rings, 6/94
to 5/98, US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station.
(Henri Grissino-Mayer, Chris Baisan) |
| The long-term role of wildfire and
spruce bark beetle outbreaks in forest dynamics at the Kenai
National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska, 7/94 to 5/97, US Fish & Wildlife
Service. (Chris Fastie, Ed Berg) |
| Mapping past and potential fire
regimes in Rocky Mountain wilderness landscapes, 8/94 to 5/98, US
Forest Service, Aldo Leopold Research Institute. (Penny Morgan,
Matt Rollins) |
| Regional dendroecology research,
9/94 to 9/99, US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station.
(Chris Baisan, Kiyomi Morino, Rena Ann Abolt, Margot Wilkinson,
Shelly Danzer, Dan Ryerson, Carl Edminster) |
| Fire regime reconstruction in the
Southwestern borderlands, 9/94 to 8/97, US Forest Service, Rocky
Mountain Research Station. (Mark Kaib, Chris Baisan)) |
| Development of dendroclimatic
reconstructions, 2/95 to 2/95, Department of Defense and US
Geological Survey. (Henri Grissino-Mayer) |
| Climatic variation in the Sonoran
desert from instrumental climate data and tree rings, 4/95 to
3/98, National Biological Service and National Park Service.
(David Meko, Chris Baisan) |
| Develop tree-ring chronologies from
the areas of west Texas, northern Mexico, and southern New Mexico,
7/95 to 2/96, Department of Defense and US Geological Survey.
(Henri Grissino-Mayer) |
| Expanded fire regime studies in the
Jemez Mountains, New Mexico, 8/95 to 1/97, National Biological
Service. (Craig Allen, Chris Baisan, Kiyomi Morino)
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| A tree-ring reconstruction of
pandora moth population history in central and southern Oregon,
9/95 to 12/97, US Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research
Station. (Jim Speer, Boyd Wickman, Malcolm Hughes, Gregg Garfin,
Andy Youngblood) |
| Fire history of the Calaveras giant
sequoia groves, 9/95 to 12/98, State of California, Parks and
Recreation Department. (Chris Baisan, Wayne Harrison) |
| Expanded fire history in Chiricahua
National Monument, 8/96 to 12/98, National Park Service, Southern
Arizona Group Office. (Chris Baisan, Shelly Danzer) |
| Fire regime assessment for Coronado
National Memorial, 8/96 to 12/98, National Park Service, Southern
Arizona Group Office. (Chris Baisan, Kiyomi Morino) |
| Climate-fire ecosystem linkages on
decadal to centennial time scales in the northern Rockies, 8/97 to
7/00, National Science Foundation, Geography and Atmospheric
Dynamics Programs. (Penny Morgan, Cathy Whitlock, Kurt
Kipfmueller, Matt Rollins) |
| Fire effects on Huachuca mountain
mixed-conifer forests and associated species of concern, 7/98 to
10/98, The Nature Conservancy. (Kiyomi Morino) |
| Climate change and the stability of
sky-island conifer populations in the Sonoran desert, 8/98 to
12/99, US Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division. (Dave
Meko, June Kirkby, Chris Baisan) |
| Fire history inventories to assist
administration planning for the Tonto National Forest, central
Arizona, 8/98 to 8/01, US Forest Service, Tonto National Forest.
(Mark Kaib, Chris Baisan) |
| Fire and budworm outbreak history in
wildland-urban interface areas of the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico,
9/98 to 6/00, US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station.
(Ann Lynch, Craig Allen) |
| Crown fire histories, bog fire scar
histories and drought-induced ecotone shifts, 4/99 to 12/03, US
Geological Survey, National Biological Service, Global Change
Program. (Craig Allen, Scott Anderson, Chris Baisan, Kiyomi
Morino, Ellis Margolis) |
| Fire history research to assist
administrative fire planning for the San Carlos Apache
Reservation, 5/99 to 4/00, San Carlos Apache Nation. (Mark Kaib,
Chris Baisan) |
| Sierra Nevada forest dynamics, 5/99
to 4/04, US Geological Survey, National Biological Service, Global
Change Program. (Chris Baisan, Kiyomi Morino) |
| Spatial and temporal analysis of
lightning and fire occurrence in Rocky Mountain Wilderness areas,
US Forest Service, Joint Fire Sciences Program, Aldo Leopold
Wilderness Research Institute, 10/99 to 6/00. (Matt Rollins)
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| Timing of whitebark pine mortality
due to mountain pine beetle in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness
Area, 8/99 to 7/00, US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research
Station. (Kurt Kipfmueller, Penny Morgan) |
| Tree-ring assessment of tent
caterpillar outbreaks in aspen stands on northern New Mexico, 9/99
to 6/00, US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. (Ann
Lynch) |
| Fire history and restoration
research in Monument Canyon Research Natural Area, Santa Fe
National Forest, US Forest Service, Joint Fire Sciences Program.
(Don Falk) |
| Pinyon Juniper woodland fire history
studies in southern New Mexico,
10/99-12/03,
Department of Defense and the University
of New Mexico. (Esteban Muldavin, Kiyomi Morino) |
| Spatial and Temporal Analysis of
Lightning and Fire Occurrence in Rocky Mountain Wilderness areas,
Interagency Joint Fire Sciences Program, 7/99 to 12/00, Aldo
Leopold Wilderness Research Institute, USDA Forest Serv. (with
Matthew Rollins) |
| Using Lightning and Fire Occurrence
Data to Visualize 20th Century Fire Patterns, 7/99 to 12/00,
Inter-Agency Joint Fire Sciences Program, USDA Forest Service
(with Matthew Rollins) |
| Climatic and Human Impacts on Fire
Regimes in Forests and Grasslands of the U.S. Southwest, 11/00 to
10/03, Assessing the Consequences of interactions between Human
Activities and a Changing Climate, FY 2000 Science to Achieve
Results (STAR) Program, National Center for Environmental
Research, Environmental Protection Agency (with Barbara Morehouse,
Jonathan Overpeck, Steven Yool, Barron Orr, Gary Christopherson)
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| Landscape fire history patterns in
the sky islands of southeastern Arizona, 6/02-12/04, USFS Rocky
Mountain Research Station (with Jose Iniquez) |
| The Monument Canyon Restoration
Program: Reducing extreme fire risk & conducting research in an
old-growth New Mexico Ponderosa pine forest, 10/01-9/05, USDA
Forest Service, Collaborative Forest Restoration Program
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| Comparing Fire scar analysis, fire
atlas records and fire simulations in the Saguaro-Rincon Mountains
Wilderness, 9/01-12/31/02, USDA, Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research
Institute (with Calvin Farris, Chris Baisan) |
| Fire & Climate History in Western
North and South America Workshop, 3/23-3/28/02, NSF-IAI; NOAA-OG;
JFSP IGBP-PAGES; USDA/PNWFS |
| Monument Canyon Research Project and
2002 Fire-Climate Workshop, 12/01-12/02, USDA Forest Service,
Rocky Mountain Research Station, Flagstaff, AZ |
| Fire and Pandora Moth
History in Northern Arizona, 9/00-4/1/03,
US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain
Research Station. (with Ann Lynch, Chris Baisan, and Ignacio
Garcia) |
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Tree-Ring assessment of tent caterpillar outbreaks in aspen stands
on northern New Mexico, 9/00-4/1/03, US Forest Service, Rocky
Mountain Research Station. PI’s Thomas Swetnam and Chris Baisan
(collaborations with Ann Lynch, Ignacio Garcia-Gonzales) |
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Climatic and Human Impacts on Fire Regimes in Forests and
Grasslands of the U.S. Southwest: Assessing the Consequences of
Interactions between Human Activities and a Changing Climate,
11/00 to 10/03, $1,260,993, FY 2000 Science to Achieve Results
(STAR) Program, National Center for Environmental Research,
Environmental Protection Agency (Barbara Morehouse PI, Co-PIs:
Thomas Swetnam, Jonathan Overpeck, Steve Yool, Barron Orr, Gary
Christopherson) |
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Comparing Fire scar analysis, fire atlas records and fire
simulations in the Saguaro-Rincon Mountains Wilderness,
9/01-12/31/03, Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute, US
Forest Service, PI: Thomas Swetnam (Calvin Farris graduate
student) |
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The Monument Canyon Restoration Program: Reducing extreme fire
risk & conducting research in an old-growth New Mexico Ponderosa
pine forest, 10/01-9/05, USDA Forest Service, Collaborative
Forest Restoration Program, Co-PI’s Thomas Swetnam and Don Falk. |
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Landscape Fire History Patterns in the Sky Islands of Southeastern
Arizona, 3/13/02-12/31/2004, Rocky Mountain Research
Station, US Forest Service. PI: Thomas Swetnam (Jose Iniquez
graduate student) |
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Dissertation Research: Ecological effects of temporal and spatial
variability in the disturbance regime of an old-growth Ponderosa
Pine Forest, With Don Falk, 6/1/02-5/31/03, Ecological Studies
Program, NSF, Co-PI’s: Don Falk and Thomas Swetnam |
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Paleofire History Workshop, Mar 23-28, 2002 - combined funding
requested and received from NSF (International Programs), NOAA
(Office of Global Programs), US Forest Service (Pac. NW Research
Station), and PAGES (inter-American Institute), and Joint Fire
Sciences Program. |
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Fire-Climate Synthesis in the Western United States, Western
Mountain Initiative, USGS Global Change Program, 8/04-12/06 |
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Comparing Fire scar analysis, fire atlas records and fire
simulations in the Saguaro-Rincon Mountains Wilderness, Aldo
Leopold Wilderness Research Institute, US Forest Service,
09/01-12/05 |
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FSML: Promoting Biological Research on the Colorado Plateau with
the Merriam-Powell Research Station: National Science Foundation
DBI-0224851, (Co-PIs Michael Wagner; James Collins, Stanley
Smith), (all funds go to NAU), 9/02-8/05 |
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Landscape Fire History Patterns in the Sky Islands of Southeastern
Ariz., Rocky Mountain Research Station, US Forest Service,
07/02-12/05 |
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Extension to the International Multiproxy Paleofire Database, USDA
Forest Service, 9/04-9/06 |
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Variability, Social Vulnerability and Public Policy in the
Southwestern US -- Phase 2 (also known as the Climate Assessment
for the Southwest), (PI: Jonathan Overpeck; Swetnam is one of nine
co-PIs), NOAA Office of Global Programs Grant # NA16GP2578,
6/02-05/07 |
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Multi-century reconstruction of
chaparral fire history using fire-scarred bigcone Douglas-fir in
three southern California National Forests. (PI: T.W. Swetnam;
Co-PIs Keith Lombardo, Chris Baisan, and Mark Borchert),
USDA Forest Service, Interagency Joint Fire Science Program,
10/06-09/09. |
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Fire regimes of montane grasslands of the Valles Caldera National
Preserve, New Mexico. (PI: Don Falk, Co-PIs T.W. Swetnam, Craig
Allen and Bob Parmenter), USDA Forest Service, Interagency Joint
Fire Science Program, 11/06-09/09. |
STUDENT ADVISING AND MENTORING
Dissertation director:
Masters thesis director:
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Peter Brown (WSM)
completed 1991 |
| Linda Mutch (WSM) completed 1994
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| Dana Perkins (RNR) completed 12/95
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| Kiyomi Morino (WSM) completed 2/96
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| Rena Ann Abolt (RNR) completed 4/97
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Margot Kaye (WSM) completed 8/97
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James Speer (GEOS) completed 8/97
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| Shelly Danzer (WSM) completed 5/98
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| Mark Kaib (WSM) completed 10/98
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| Daniel Ryerson (WSM) completed 12/99
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| June Psaltis (RNR), completed 5/01
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Ellis
Margolis (WSM) completed 9/03 |
| Erica Bigio, (GEOS) completed
05/2006 |
Post-Doctoral Associates: Dr. Ramzi
Touchan, Dr. Chris Fastie (1995), Dr. Henri Grissino-Mayer
(1995-97), Dr. Ed Wright (2002), Dr. David Grow (2003-2004) |
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