THOMAS W. SWETNAM REGENTS PROFESSOR OF DENDROCHRONOLOGY, EMERITUS
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Regents' Professor induction video: a short bio of my research & teaching produced by UA in 2014, ~6min
Australian Broadcasting Company, Catalyst film "Earth on Fire" June 3, 2014 ~1hr
Years of Living
Dangerously
-- Fireline episode, 2014
Albuquerque Journal article and videos, "Fascinating Fury", by John Fleck, June 23, 2013
USC Sol Price School of Public Policy, June 2013 "Climate Change impacts of forests and fire hazards" YouTube ~10min
Arizona Public Media produced a short (6 minute) video describing our history and work at the Tree-Ring Lab, and the new Tree-Ring Building.
I gave a short (15 minutes) talk at a symposium in Aspen Colorado (Feb 18, 2011). The symposium was titled: Forests At Risk: Climate Change and the Future of the American West (Al Gore was the keynote speaker).
Desert Speaks, KUAT, episodes on wildfires, giant sequoias, and bristlecones. A short clip from the Medieval Drought in the Southwest is linked below. This sequence was shot in Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks
And here is a short clip from a walk near the Schulman Grove of ancient bristlecone pines from Desert Speaks
Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center: Predicting Fire Patterns 13 minutes
Tour of Tree-Ring Lab Storeroom, and discussion of Lab’s history, and recent gift to LTRR YouTube 7 minutes
CBS 60 Minutes, October 21 and December 30, 2007 “The Age of Mega-Fires”, includes interview of Tom Swetnam by Scott Pelley in the Tree-Ring Lab and in Santa Catalina Mtns
PBS National Public Radio, July 21, 2007 “Hotter, Drier Climate Moves up Sky Islands’ Slopes”, by Ted Robbins (written article and audio interview)
ABC Radio Nation (Australia) The Science Show, May 2007, “Tree Rings”,with Robyn Williams (interview transcript)
Newspaper & Magazine Articles
New York Times, Sept. 21, 2015 "As Fires Grows a New Landscape Appears in the West" by John Schwartz
Tucson Daily Star article, Jan 11, 2015 "Researcher used fire to illuminate history of the Southwest", by Tom Beal,
New York Times article on forest global dieback concerns, October 2011
National Geographic Magazine, February 2008, “Drying of the West” by Robert Kunzig
New York Times, March 27, 2007 “Heat Invades Cool Heights Over Arizona Desert” by Timothy Egan
Scientific American, December 26, 2006 “Warmer Atlantic, Climate Change Presage More and Worse, Western Wildfires”, by David Biello
Discover Magazine, June 25, 2006 “Fire in the Sky: Why America’s Ecological Treasures Just Need to Burn”, by Jeff Wheelwright
USA Today, February 27, 2006, “Parched New Mexico gets a taste of climate change”, by Pat O’Driscoll
High Country News, January 24, 2005, “Written in the Rings Tree rings reveal the climate of the past — and help foretell the future. Their message? Get ready for hot, dry times”, by Michelle Nijhuis
PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, October 7, 2003, “Western Drought”, (interview by Ted Robbins, transcript, and link to streaming video)
Time Magazine, August 16, 2004 “Why the West is Burning”, by Madeleine Nash
Time Magazine, August 18, 2003 “Fireproofing the Forests”, by Madeleine Nash
BioScience, May 2000, “Reading between the lines: Dendrochronologists find that the past is still present in tree rings” by Scott Norris
New York Times, May 11, 1996 “In Sick, Crowded Ponderosa Forests of West, Seeds of Infernos Lie Ominously in Wait”, by George Johnson
New York Times, December 1, 1992, “In Unexpected Places, Clues to Ancient and Future Climate; Warming? Trees Say Not Yet” by Natalie Angier
New York Times, September 1990, “Science Watch; Fires and Climate”
Affiliated Institutions Links
Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research
University of Arizona
Collaborators & Former Student Links
Craig Allen, US Geological Survey
Julio Betancourt, US Geological Survey
Chris Baisan, University of Arizona
Peter Brown, Rocky Mountain Tree-Ring Research
Erica Bigio, University of Arizona
Don Falk, University of Arizona
Calvin Farris, National Park Service
Henri Grissino-Mayer, University of Tennessee
Chris Guiterman, University of Arizona
Jose Iniquez, US Forest Servic
e
Kurt Kipfmueller, University of Minnesota
Kieth Lombardo, National Park Service
Ann Lynch, US Forest Service
Alison Macalady, National Academy of Sciences
Ellis Margolis, US Geological Survey
Kiyomi Morino, University of Arizona
Matt Rollins, US Forest Service
Chris Roos, Southern Methodist University
Jim Speer, Indiana State University
Elaine Sutherland, US Forest Service
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