Katherine (Katie) Hirschboeck is a faculty member in the Laboratory
of Tree-Ring Research and also serves as the Chair of the
Global Change
Ph.D.Minor Graduate Interdisciplinary Program. She earned her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Geography,
with a minor in Geology, from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Her Ph.D.
degree in Geosciences was awarded by the University of Arizona in 1985 and her
dissertation examined the hydroclimatic causes of mixed distributions in Arizona
flood records, linking them to climatic variability. She was a Visiting
Assistant Professor in Geography at the University of Oklahoma in 1984 and
subsequently held a faculty position at Louisiana State University in the
Department of Geography and Anthropology where she was tenured as an Associate
Professor of Geography in 1990. In 1991, she joined the Laboratory of Tree-Ring
Research at the University of Arizona as an Associate Professor of Climatology.
Katie is active in many professional organizations including the Association
of American Geographers (for whom she served as the Water Resources Specialty
Group secretary/treasurer and chair); the American Quaternary Association (for
whom she served as paleoclimatology councilor); the American Meteorological
Society; American Geophysical Union; American Institute of Hydrology; American
Water Resources Association; the Geological Society of America; and the
Tree-Ring Society. She also served on the National Academy of Sciences'
(NAS) Committee on Geography within the Board on Earth Sciences and
Resources of the NAS's Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources.
In addition to her teaching and research activities in the
Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, Katie holds joint appointments in the
departments of Geography and Regional
Development, Hydrology and
Water Resources, and Atmospheric
Sciences, and maintains close interdisciplinary ties with the
Geosciences Department,
Arid Lands Resource Sciences, and
the Institute for the Study of Planet
Earth.
Katie's research involves the climatology and
hydroclimatology of extreme events – especially floods, paleofloods, and
droughts -- which she analyzes from the perspective of their meteorological
and climatological causes and their long-term variability. She also uses
synoptic climatology and dendroclimatology to link tree-ring responses to
anomalous atmospheric circulation patterns. She has received the
University of
Arizona’s Provost Teaching Award, an Editor's award from the American
Meteorological Society, and the Association of American Geographer's Warren J.
Nystrom Award for best dissertation.
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